Interpreting Two State Instruments for Intermediary Values

摘要

Interpolating data from instruments which produce only two distinct binary outputs is discussed. The problem of determining void fraction, given an instrument which produces only a liquid or a no-liquid output, is used to demonstrate three different methods of data interpolation. The three methods involve a form of time averaging. The methods are signal amplitude histogram, signal derivative, and signal derivative discriminator. The advantages, disadvantages, and accuracies of each method are described. (ERA citation 04:043698)