Plasmetry A Plasma Diagnostics and Data Acquisition Solution

Abstract

The Plasmetry Software is a data acquisition solution designed to support and enhance the research efforts of the PUPR Plasma Engineering Laboratory staff, by providing an efficient means of obtaining, processing, and storing measurements from a body of plasma through a highly configurable and modular application. The system offers a graphical user interface that allows configuration of the software for flexible control of hardware components (Fig. 4). It is designed to interface with six different electrostatic probe implementations (Fig. 3). Our software uses these probes to calculate various plasma parameters that provide insight on the plasma's characteristics and displays these parameters to the user in real-time (Fig. 5). The processed data is programmatically formatted and saved in local storage and in an external cloud storage service (Fig 6).