The Development of Human Machine Interface (HMI) on Antenna Stabilization System

Human Machine Interface (HMI) for antenna stabilization systems has been made. This antenna stabilization system is used for ships but could be also installed on land vehicles with some adjustments. The HMI program has been created based on Graphical User Interface (GUI) using the C programming language with Qt Integrated Development Environment (IDE) on raspberry pi 3. This program was designed to monitor and control the real-time antenna stabilization system. Multithread processing algorithms have been applied to ensure that the program could process the system algorithm, GUI display, motor control, and input/output data at the same time so that no process overlap and system crashed could be avoided. Experiments have been conducted which show that all processes could run in real-time and the antenna stabilization mechanism could work well.