Buffered equidistant data acquisition for control applications

A system for configuring a transfer of signals associated with an iterative and synchronized, time-based data acquisition (DAQ) operation between at least one input device and at least one output device, the system comprising:

• an input device configured to transmit signal data samples associated with a test subject;
• a computing device in communication with said input device, said computing device having a controller with one or more processors and a non-transitory, computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by said one or more processors, cause said computing device to perform operations comprising:
• requesting and receiving, in real time, said signal data samples from said at least one input device;
• preliminarily mapping a series of said received signal data samples to a buffer as the requesting and receiving is repeated after a predetermined and equidistant time interval;
• comparing with said controller a time indicator of each of said series of received signal data samples against a time indicator of a previously-received signal data sample to confirm that no signal data sample is lost;
• requesting from said at least one input device with said controller a missing signal data sample in response to said comparing if one of said signal data samples is lost;
• transmitting said missing signal data sample to said controller from said at least one input device in response to the requesting of said missing signal data sample;
• receiving at said controller, from said at least one input device, said missing signal data sample in response to the transmitting;
• rearranging said series of signal data samples for final mapping in said buffer with said controller to arrange said series in time sequence;
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• transmitting in real time, with said controller, to said at least one output device, at least a portion of a present signal data sample prior to the receiving of said missing signal data sample by said controller.