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A customer arrives tomorrow to make a purchase decision on a $1M

aircraft. The customer's chief engineeri dreamt up an idea for a flight data
collection system for a Cessna 172. Business development says the
solution to this problem will seal the deal. Using the components in the
table below, your task is identify an approach that meets the following:
a) Collect airspeed, GPS reported loctation/speed, and fuel flow
b) Store the data on board for a flight lasting from 1-3 hours
c) Use separate battery for powering the data collection system
d) Develop the relationship between fuel consumed v. distance flown plus
airspeed v. fuel rate
e) The budget for the system is $3500
1) Draw the block diagram for this data acquistion system. Hand sketch is
perfectly acceptable or use use any tool that outputs Microsoft or JPG
compatible outout?
2) Identify any assumptions, issues, recommendations ot otherwise that
would accompany the block diagram?
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Consider an envelope detector that would be used to detect the message

sent in an AM system. Consider the envelope detector as a system
composed of the cascading of two systems: one which computes the
absolute value of the input, and a second one that low-pass filters its input.

A circuit that is used as an envelope detector consists of a diode circuit that

does the absolute value operation, and an RC circuit that does the low-pass
filtering. The following is an implementation of these operations in the
discrete-time system.(Use Matlab)
Let the input to the envelope detector be a sampled signal, x[nT_s
]=p(nT_s ) cos(2000nT_s ) Where p(nT_s )=u(nT_s )-u(nT_s-20T_s
)+u(nT_s-40T_s )-u(nT_s-60T_s) where two pulses of duration 20Ts
and amplitude equal to one.
Choose T_s= 0.01, and generate 100 samples of the input signal
x(nT_s) and plot it. Consider then the subsystem that computes
the absolute value of the input x(nT_s) and compute and plot 100
samples of y[nT_s ]=|x[nT_s]|
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