Software zur Steuerung, Datenerfassung und Auswertung von elektrochemischen Sensoren

Abstract

This thesis is about a software called MessTool which is the consequence of an internship that started rather small but over the time developed into a full grown project. MessTool can be considered as an intermediate product of this project.<br />My Tutors found themselves in the situation that a new kind of measurement had to be performed. Thus the software they used had once again to be adapted to fit the new requirements. Since such adaptions are necessary every once in a while and the former approach was quite inefficient they decided to change the overall software structure in order to avoid or at least optimize such adaption incidents.<br />Once we managed to settle for a basic concept us two programmers started the implementation. Working with the hardware that was entirely new to us required alot of reading and testing before useful code was produced.<br />The very first working version of MessTool turned out to be useful in practice. While working on it we learned more about the overall progress of electrochemical measuring but our ideas couldn't be implemented right away.<br />The outcome of this first phase was satisfying enough for our employer to prolong the collaboration and I decided to make MessTool the subject of my thesis.<br />Working on the next version included re-writing many parts and cleaning up code to improve clarity. Furthermore the approach of how a measurement is assembled with the graphical user interface has been improved so that more flexible measurements can be performed.<br />Eventually an on-road test was performed to test and document functionality of the software. For the first time a new kind of electrode array has been used. Working with this electrode array without the aid of MessTool would be close to impossible due to the immense overhead manual measuring would produce.