Multi-level computer systems for automation of scientific research

The article is devoted to multi-level computer systems used to automate scientific research. The authors show that to automate scientific research, it is important to correctly formulate the composition of hardware and software for experimental installations and test benches. Automation means include structural devices and measuring instruments. Correct functioning of the hardware and software complex ensures the acquisition of new characteristics. The analysis of the values of these characteristics depends directly on the metrological equipment, as well as on computer processing of the measurement results. The automation of scientific research can significantly increase the objectivity and reliability of the results of experimental research, since during research a series of tests are performed. Thus, the computer technologies used make it possible to organize hardware and software support for the automation of scientific research, which ensures, over a fixed period of time, the minimization of measurement errors with limited time resources. Moreover, during this period of time, due to automation, a sufficient amount of data is collected to prove the reliability of the results obtained. This is achieved through the construction of multilevel automation systems with coordination of the work of multiple objects distributed geographically.