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Mon Dec 28 14:48:29 2009 |
Aidan | Computing | DAQ | VME crate has a "new" CPU - needs to be configured | I installed a recycled VME crate in the
electronics rack. It currently has a Baja
4700E CPU card in it - and this needs to |
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Tue Dec 29 16:05:09 2009 |
Frank | Computing | DAQ | booting VME crates from fb1 | http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/AdhikariLab/514 |
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Tue Dec 29 17:50:57 2009 |
Aidan | Computing | DAQ | VME crate has proper boot settings | We fixed the start-up settings on the VME
crate to look for a TCS startup file on fb0.
The settings on the Baja 4700 are now: |
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Fri Jan 29 10:02:15 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | DAQ | New DAQ ordered | On the advice of Ben Abbott, I've
ordered the Diamond Systems Athena II computer
w/DAQ, as well as an I/O board, solid state |
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Mon Apr 12 08:55:37 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | EDT frame grabber is here | The EDT PCIe4 DV C-Link frame grabber
arrived this morning. There is a CD of drivers
and software with it that I'll back up to |
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Thu Apr 15 01:47:47 2010 |
Won Kim | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Notes on installing EDT PCIe4 DV frame grabber | * EDT PCIe4 DV frame grabber: installation
notes for linux system
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Tue Apr 20 18:05:24 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Images off the Dalsa Camera in CentOS | I installed CentOS on the machine
with the EDT frame-grabber. I then installed
the frame-grabber software from the CD. |
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Wed Apr 21 06:49:51 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Frame Grabber | Installing CentOS 5.3 and the EDT frame-grabber - Part 1 | Yesterday, I installed CentOS 5.3 on the
Gateway GT5482 machine that housed the EDT
frame-grabber. |
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Thu Apr 22 01:48:33 2010 |
Won Kim | Computing | Frame Grabber | from the manual install.pdf |
Regarding the installation of EDT
software, I overlooked a note from the install.pdf |
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Thu Apr 22 08:20:51 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Installed MATLAB and Windows XP Virtualization on Hartmann machine | I installed a Windows XP virtualization
on the Hartmann machine. It can be accessed
from the desktop, or by running |
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Thu Apr 22 08:22:18 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Frame Grabber | from the manual install.pdf |
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Mon May 3 17:42:20 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | EPICS | EPICS install by Alex | Alex Ivanov came in on Friday and demonstrated
his EPICS kung-fu. His EPICS knig-fu is strong.
We fixed the IP address of the Hartmann |
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Mon May 3 17:43:48 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Frame Grabber | Successful image capture with EDT frame grabber | I noticed that when i ran /opt/EDTpdv/camconfig
and selected camera 331, which appeared to |
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Tue May 4 09:18:15 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Added aliases and icons for EPICS commands and dataviewer etc. to hartmann | I updated the .bashrc file in controls@hartmann
to include aliases for the ezca EPICS commands
and a few others. Details shown below: |
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Tue May 4 10:30:07 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | EPICS and MEDM screen for Hartmann sensor | I added the Dalsa 1M60 temperature measurements
to EPICS. The break down is as follows:
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Tue May 4 13:35:13 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Hartmann temperature channels in frame builder | I've added the digitizer and sensor
board temperature readings from the HWS to
the frames. This was done in the following |
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Wed May 5 09:04:01 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Added /home/controls/scripts/modules directory to PYTHONPATH on hartmann | I added the following line to ~/.bashrc
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Wed May 5 18:45:51 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Python code to interface the Dalsa1M60 and export the temperature to EPICS | Python script
I wrote a Python script, ~/scripts/dalsa_to_epics.py |
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Thu May 6 10:34:38 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | EPICS and MEDM screen for Hartmann sensor - part 2 | I added the camera parameters to EPICS
and the MEDM screen. These are available
as channels now in EPICS and eventually there |
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Thu May 6 12:32:11 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | dalsa_to_epics Python script crashed ... | Here's the error:
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Thu May 6 21:32:26 2010 |
Won Kim | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Peak detection and centroiding code |
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Tue May 11 10:32:00 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Peak detection and centroiding code - review | This looks really efficient! However, I
think there's a systematic error in the calculation.
I tested it on some simulated data and it |
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Thu May 13 16:54:46 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Running MATLAB programs in C on CentOS - only use R2008b for less hassle | After much effort trying to get a
MATLAB routine to compile in C I discovered
the following pieces of information. |
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Mon May 17 19:41:13 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Frame Grabber | C code that calls MATLAB engine and centroiding algorithms | This is an amended version of simple_take.c.
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Tue May 18 09:33:44 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | EPICS | Added defocus and other Hartmann sensor channels to EPICS and DAQ | I've added the following channels
to the HWS softIoc in /cvs/cds/caltech/target/softIoc/HWS.db |
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Thu May 20 08:20:54 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Centroiding algorithm and code to generate simulated data | Here's a copy of an email I distributed
today that describes the centroid and simulation
code I wrote. |
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Wed Jun 30 00:00:13 2010 |
Kathryn and Won | Computing | Hartmann sensor | rms of centroid position changes | Given
below is a brief overview of calculating
rms of spot position changes to test the |
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Sun Jul 4 06:45:50 2010 |
Kathryn and Won | Computing | Hartmann sensor | analyzing the wavefront aberration | Happy
Fourth of July!
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Tue Jul 20 15:45:51 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | General | Add fixed IP addresses to local machines in TCS lab | http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/AdhikariLab/859 |
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Tue Jul 20 18:13:06 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | General | Added TCS channels to frame builder | http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/AdhikariLab/860
contents of tcs_daq: /target/TCS_westbridge.db |
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Thu Jul 22 11:02:59 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | General | Restarted hartmann machine | hartmann had started responding
to requests to log-in with the a request
to change the password. Attempts to change |
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Fri Jul 23 10:33:08 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Dalsa camera ADC 8th digitizer error | I plotted a histogram of the total intensity
of the Hartmann sensor when illuminated and
found that the 128 count problem extends |
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Fri Jul 23 12:33:51 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Invar clamp scatter | I illuminated the Hartmann sensor with
the output of a fiber placed ~1m away.
I noticed that the illumination was |
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Fri Jul 23 12:38:58 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Images for Dalsa | Attached are the background and 80% illumination
(~uniform spatially uniform) images that
Dalsa requested. |
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Fri Jul 23 19:52:49 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Dalsa camera ADC 8th digitizer error | I've attached an image that shows the locations
of those pixels that record a number of counts
= (2*n-1)*128. |
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Sun Jul 25 16:24:56 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | SLED | Superlum SLED test integrated with DAQ - new channel names | I added some new channels to the
Athena DAQ that record the diagnostic channels
from the Superlum SLED. |
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Mon Jul 26 09:42:30 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | SLED | Long term test on SLED started - Day 0 | I set up the SLED to test its long
term performance. The test began, after a
couple of false starts, around 9:15AM this |
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Fri Jul 30 10:04:54 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Restarted the HWS EPICS channels | Restarted the HWS EPICS channels
on hartmann with the following
command: |
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Fri Jul 30 11:01:31 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | EPICS softIoc alias | I added an alias HWSIoc to
controls which can be used to
start the HWS EPICS softIoc. |
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Fri Jul 30 13:38:39 2010 |
James Kunert | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Summary of Thermal Defocus Data Analysis | Below is a table summarizing the results
of recent thermal defocus experiments. The
values are the calculated change in measured |
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Fri Jul 30 19:22:24 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | EPICS | Waveform Channel Access for storing centroids | A waveform channel was added to the
HWS softIoc on hartmann. This allows arrays
of data to be stored in a single channel. |
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Fri Jul 30 21:19:05 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | EPICS | Waveform Channel Access for storing centroids | After some discussion with Frank we figured
out how to edit the record type in HWS.db
so that the waveform/array channel actually |
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Sat Jul 31 11:54:20 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | SLED | SLED Test Day 5 - Re-tuned current set-point control voltage | Main Points
Re-set SLED current set-point
control voltage to 0.111V
SLED |
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Wed Aug 4 09:57:38 2010 |
Aidan, James | Computing | Hartmann sensor | RMS measurements with Hartmann sensor | [INCOMPLETE
ENTRY]
We set up the Hartmann sensor and |
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Wed Aug 18 18:38:11 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Hartmann sensor code | I downloaded and tested revision
47 of the Adelaide Hartmann sensor code from
the SVN (https://trac.ligo.caltech.edu/Hartmann_Sensor/browser/users/won/HS_OO?rev=47). |
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Thu Nov 4 13:31:19 2010 |
Won Kim | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Frame Grabber SDK installation | Appended
below is the step by step procedure that |
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Tue Nov 23 06:15:08 2010 |
Won | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Image folder structure | Attached below is a diagram that describes
the organisation of image folders that I
am using at the moment with Run_initialize |
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Tue Nov 30 11:01:19 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | General | New workstation added in TCS Lab. New Static IP | I added a workstation at 10.0.1.26 in the
TCS lab. |
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Tue Nov 30 11:03:19 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | Frame Grabber | EDT frame grabber works under Ubuntu | The new machine in the TCS lab is running
Ubuntu. I installed the frame-grabber into
it and, after loading the configuration file |
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Mon Feb 28 17:33:07 2011 |
Aidan | Computing | Hartmann sensor | Hartmann Seidel abberation channels in frame builder | Using the same methods as before, see below,
I've added some Hartmann sensor EPICS channels
to the frames. |
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