Design of in-line multipoint initiation control system

In order to improve the power of initiating explosive warheads, besides exploring new type of high explosive, multipoint initiation technology becomes the research focus. With research on electronic safety and arming devices (ESADs), pulse power devices and slapper detonators, a hardware control circuit was designed for multipoint initiation control system based on complex programmable logic device (CPLD).In addition, a real-time monitoring interface based on virtual instruments technology was designed by the prevailing software of Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW). It provides users a real-time status of the hardware circuit system. Moreover, a series of experiments were done on the software and hardware platform. The results show that the signals transmission, collection, analysis and display can be realized reliably through a serial port line. It is verified that using a serial bus controller for multiple initiators is reasonable. Successful design of the platform will play an important foundation for the theory and engineering of the future weapon system. Surely, it will become one of the development directions for intelligent initiation system.