Mateusz Pakosz
supervisor: Jacek Starzyński
The task is to develop automatic control system for electromagnetic gun, which can be used in aviation industry certification and engineering tests, such as bird strikes and bird ingestions. Developed solution can be replacement for used up to day pneumatic gas guns and the aim is to achieve better reliability and time consistency. The main innovative feature should be possibility to shot with non-ferromagnetic projectiles made from ice or ballistic gel. The project includes developing of the concept control system with selection of electrical components, building the electrical and mechanical prototype, building the sabot catcher and drive system, physical parameters of projectiles measurements and time consistency tests and reporting. Literature research was made. Currently tests of electrical components and control solutions are conducted partially basing on existing prototype of the gauss gun. Some of electrical and physical parameters was measured and waiting for further description. The next step is to change the control system for FPGA based one. The controller has been pre-selected. The next step is to prepare one stage of the gun, which should be scalable, based on target controller and independent. Main task of that future part of work is increasing the reliability by further testing of electrical components and developing new control algorithms.