Distributed control system for catalysing the formation of artificial rainfall and snow using charged particles. Issue 5 (April 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yang, Z; Wu, Q; Zhang, M; Zheng, W; Wang, Y; Ai, X
• Is Part Of: IOP conference series. Volume 474:Issue 5(2020)
• Publication Date: 2020-04
• Subjects: Earth sciences -- Periodicals; Environmental sciences -- Congresses; Environmental sciences -- Periodicals; 550.5
• DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/474/5/052108
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1755-1307

Abstract

Abstract: In order to solve the limitations and shortcomings of the traditional artificial rainfall technology, researchers all over the world are actively researching new artificial rainfall technologies. The charged particle catalytic artificial rainfall technology is one of the new artificial rainfall technologies. This method uses a charged particle generator set up in the wild to produce charged particles to catalyse rainfall. It is necessary to control all equipment in the experiment site remotely during the experiment. Thus, a control system needs to be implemented. There are many kinds of controlled equipment in this control system, such as high-voltage power supply, meteorological data acquisition devices, and various experimental auxiliary equipment. In this paper, we design and implement a comprehensive control system based on the characteristics of the charged particle catalysed artificial rainfall field experiment and the controlled equipment in the experiment site. The software interface connected to different types of equipment in the system is developed based on the large-scale experimental control system framework CFET, which can easily add equipment and view measurement data. The system is designed as a distributed system connected through a network, which can meet the needs of centralized control of multiple experimental sites.