[PSUBS-MAILIST] SCMv2 - Submarine Control Manager

[Sean T. Stevenson via Personal_Submersibles]

What is MATILDA? Did you refer to e.g. the ABS ergonomics guide or other references when designing your alarms?

Sean


On April 1, 2016 7:46:23 AM MDT, Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>
>Hi Alec,
>
>Pitch and roll on a K-sub are negligible but the sensors are "free", 
>part of the electronic compass, so I added them to the display.  The 
>pitch might come in handy to help with longitudinal balancing.  
>Roll...well if I ever get stuck on a sloped bottom I can radio to the 
>rescue divers "you can't miss me, I'm the sub leaning port at a 25 
>degree angle".
>
>I think Cliff pointed us to a depth sounder/speed combination sensor 
>that he is using which would work well for altitude over bottom.  It 
>would be easy to add that into the software, just a matter of getting a
>
>unit and testing it.
>
>One thing that the demo fails at is my implementation of MATILDA, audio
>
>warnings corresponding to the yellow/red alerts that are displayed for 
>various sensors.  A yellow alert sounds a gentle "ding-dong" sound 
>followed by the sensor name spoken by a computerized voice (female of 
>course) and a red alarm sounds a high pitch smoke-alarm sound followed 
>by the sensor name spoken by MATILDA.  I was too lazy to set things up 
>to record the audio for this demo but will do that at a later date and 
>of course will have it available for the convention in July.
>
>Jon
>
>
>On 4/1/2016 9:20 AM, Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles wrote:
>> That's gorgeous! I'm curious though about the pitch and roll, it
>would 
>> seem you wrote it for a "flyer" sub. One data point that would be a 
>> great addition would be altitude over bottom. Not sure if you've 
>> figured a sensor for that, but if there is one it would be great to 
>> display right next to and analogous to depth.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Alec
>>
>
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