[Tega, Ian]

TODO

1. Investigate cross-coupling btw the various degrees of freedom (dof) - turn on noise for each dof in the plant model and measure the transfer function of the other dofs.

2. Get a closed-loop transfer function using noise injection and give a detailed outline of the procedure in elog - IN1/IN2 for each TM_RESP filter while the others are turned off.

3. Derive analytic model of the closed-loop transfer functions for comparison.

4. Adapt control filters to fit optimized analytical solutions.

[Ian, Tega]

Connected the New SUS screens to the controller for the simplant model. Because of hard-coded links in the medm screen links, it was necessary to create the following path in the c1sim computer, where the new medm screen files are located:

We noticed a few problems:

1. Some of the medm files still had C1 hard coded, so we need to replace them with $IFO instead, in order for the custom damping filter screen to be useful.

2. The "Load coefficient" button was initially blank on the new sus screen, but we were able to figure out that the problem came from setting the top-level DCU_ID to 63.

[TODO]

Get the data showing the controller damping the pendulum. This will involve tweaking some gains and such to fine-tune the settings in the controller medm screen. Then we will be able to post some data of the working controller.

[Useful aside]

We should have a single place with all the instructions that are currently spread over multiple elogs so that we can better navigate the simplant computer.

[Ian, Paco, Tega]

Last night we set up the four main matrices that handle the conversion between the degrees of freedom bases and the sensor bases. We also wrote a bash script to automatically set up the system. The script sets the four change of bases matrices and activates the filters that control the plant. this script should fully set up the plant to its most basic form. The script also turns off all of the built-in noise generators. 

After this, we tried damping the optic. The easiest part of the system to damp is the side or y motion of the optic because it is separate from the other degrees of freedom in both of the bases. We were able to damp that easily. in attachment 1 you can see that the last graph in the ndscope screen the side motion of the optic is damped. Today we decided to revisit the problem.

Anyways, looking at the problem with fresh eyes today, I noticed the in pit2pit coupling has the largest swing of all the plant filters and thought this might be the reason why the inputs (UL,UR,LR,LL) to the controller was hitting the rails for pit DoF. I reduce the gain of the pit2pit filter then slowly increased it back to one. I also reduced the gain in the OSEM input filter from 1 to 1/100. The attached image (Attachment2) is the output from this trial. This did not solve the problem. The output when all OSEM input filter gain set to one is shown in Attachment2.

We will try to continue to tweak the coefficients. We are probably going to ask Anchal and Paco to sit down with us and really hone in on the right coefficients. They have more experience and should be able to really get the right values.

Finally got the SIMPLANT damping to work following Rana's suggestion to try damping one DoF at a time, woo-hoo!

At first, things didn't look good even when we only focus on the POS DoF. I then noticed that the input value (X1:SUS-OPT_PLANT_TM_RESP_1_1_IN1) to the plant was always zero. This was odd bcos it meant the control signal was not making its way to the plant. So I decided to look at the sensor data

(X1:SUS-OPT_PLANT_COIL_IN_UL_OUTPUT, X1:SUS-OPT_PLANT_COIL_IN_UR_OUTPUT, X1:SUS-OPT_PLANT_COIL_IN_LR_OUTPUT, X1:SUS-OPT_PLANT_COIL_IN_LL_OUTPUT)

that adds up via the C2DOF matrix to give the POS DoF and I noticed that these interior nodes can take on large values but always sum up to zero because the pair (UL, LL) was always the negative of (UR,LR). These things should have the same sign, at least in our case where only the POS DoF is excited, so I tracked the issue back to the alternating (-,+,-,+,-) convention for the gains

(X1:SUS-OPT_CTRL_ULCOIL_GAIN, X1:SUS-OPT_CTRL_URCOIL_GAIN, X1:SUS-OPT_CTRL_LRCOIL_GAIN, X1:SUS-OPT_CTRL_LLCOIL_GAIN, X1:SUS-OPT_CTRL_SDCOIL_GAIN)

of the Coil Output filters used in the real system, which we adopted in the hopes that all was well. Anyways, I changed them all back to +1. This also means that we need to change the sign of the gain for the SIDE filter, which I have done also (and check that it damps OK). I decided to reduce the magnitude of the SIDE damping from 1 to 0.1 so that we can see the residuals since the value of -1 quickly sends the error to zero.  I also increased the gain magnitude for the other DoF to 4.

When looking at the plot remember that the values actually represent counts with a scaling of 2^15 (or 32768) from the ADC. I switched back to the original filters on FM1 (e.g. pit_pit ) without damping coefficients present in the FM2 filter (e.g. pit_pit_damp).

FYI, Rana used the ETMY suspension MEDM screen to illustrate the working of the single suspension to me and changed maybe POS and PITCH gains while doing so.

Also, the Medify purifier 'replace filter' indicator issue occurred bcos the moonlight button should have been pressed for 3 seconds to reset the 'replace filter' indicator after filter replacement.

Restarted the C1sim machine at about 12:30 to help diagnose a network problem. Everything is back up and running

From the ALS overview screen, opening up the ETMX and ETMY screens gives these white fields. The PV info indicates that the blank fields were made with some macro variable substitution that didn't work well.

Why are these different from the SUS screens I get from the sitemap?

I tried to fix the alarms for sensors on the SUS summary screen. I checked earlier elogs and found the setSensors.py script.

I received errors while running the script and pianosa was refused connection to nds. Yuta suspects problems with the lib directory.

Jamie! Can you fix this?

 I asked John Z to talk with Jamie and then install a new NDS2 server software for us. Jamie may know if this happened or was foiled by the linux1 RAID failure.

In any case, our pyNDS stuff ought to be able to talk to NDS2 or our old NDS1 stuff, I hope.

I edited the C1SUS_SUMMARY.adl file and set the channels in alarm mode to show the values in green, yellow and red according to the values of the thresholds (LOLO, LOW, HIGH, HIHI)

I wrote a script in python, which call the command ezcawrite and ezcaread, to change the thresholds one by one.

You can call this program with a button named "Change Thresholds one by one" in the menu come down when you click the  !  button.

I'm going to write another program to change the thresholds all together.

I wanted to know what this Vmon exactly is. D010001 is telling us that the Vmon channels are HPFed with fc=30Hz (Attachment 1). Is this true?

I checked the quiscent noise spectrum of the ITMX UL coil output (C1:SUS-ITMX_ULCOIL_OUT) and the corresponding VMON (C1:SUS-ITMX_ULVmon). (Attachment 2 Ref curves). I did not find any good coherence. So the nominal quiscent Vmon output is carrying no useful information. 

Question: How much do we need to excite the coil output in order to see any meaningful signal?

As I excite the ITMX UL coil (C1:SUS-ITMX_ULCOIL_EXC) with uniform noise of 100-300 counts below 0.3Hz, I eventually could see the increase of the power spectrum and the coherence (Attachment 2). Below 0.1 Hz the coherence was ~1 and the transfer function was measured to be -75dB and flat. But wait, why is the transfer function flat?

In fact, if I inject broadband noise to the coil, I could increase the coil output and Vmon at the same time without gaining the coherence. (Attachment 3). After some more investigation, I suspect that this HPF is diabled (= bypassed) and aliasing of the high freq signal is causing the noise in Vmon.

In order to check this hypothesis, we need to visit the board.

Based on Koji's observation of a flat TF, it seems more likely the Vmon channels are looking at the path I've highlighted in green (named "EPICS V Mon"), rather than the path in red (named "DAQ Mon") that Koji initially suspected. This path still lacks any AA for the 16Hz EPICS sampling.

Ah, thanks. That makes sense. In that case, we should remove the texts "30Hz HPF" from the suspension screens.

Now we just need AA LPFs for these channels, or hook them up to the RT system.

While preping 1X4 for installation of c1lsc, we removed some old VME crates that were no longer in use.  This freed up lots of space in 1X4.  We then moved the SUS binary IO chassis 2 and 3, which plug into the 1X4 cross-connect, from 1X5 into the newly freed space in 1X4.  This makes the cable run from these modules to the cross connect much cleaner.

 Are we keeping these?

[John / Kiwamu]

 We found that some of the suspensions channels (for example C1:SUS-BS_POS_IN1 and etc) were not accessible from dataviewer for some reasons.

So far it seems none of the channels associated with c1sus are accessible from dataviewer.

A new library part was made for the single suspension controller (it was originally made from the c1scx controller), using the following procedure:

1. Opened c1scx model (userapps/trunk/sus/c1/models/c1scx)
2. Cut ETMX subsystem block out of SUS subsystem
3. Pasted ETMX block into new empty library, and renamed it C1_SUS_SINGLE_CONTROL
4. Tweaked names of inputs, and generally cleaned up internals (cosmetically)
5. Saved library to: userapps/trunk/sus/c1/models/lib/sus_single_control.mdl

Once the new sus_single_control library part was made and the library was committed to the cds_user_apps repo, I replaced all sus controller subsystems with this new part, in:

• c1scx
• c1scy
• c1sus (x5 for each vertex mass)

All models were rebuild, installed, and tested, and everything seems to be working fine.

Cheater cable to be used in clean room pitch gluing alingment.

Satelite amp needs to be there.

Atm 2-3, The ETMs  suspension damping cable  are connected at the end racks. All others go to 1X5

Atm 4-5, The other end of this cable in the high cable tray at 1X3 as shown. We'll disconnect the shorty and move the end to ETMX ( or any sus at 1X5 )

The following optics were kicked:
ETMX
Mon Sep 19 15:39:44 PDT 2011
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 The last person out tonight should run the following scripts:

In Matlab: 

/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/SUS/peakFit/writeMultiSUSinmat.m

In command line:

/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/SUS/freeswing all

Then in the morning, someone should do a BURT restore to early today (to get the default matricies back), and also restore the watchdogs.

Thanks!
 

Has the Q been checked?  Still in progress...

 So, update as of 6:17pm:  I have tuned the damping gains for all IFO optics.  Everything is good, except for ITMY Yaw.  It's probably fine, the optic damps okay, but it doesn't look like a nice clean ringdown.  I haven't taken the time to go back and look at it again.

I have to go to a dinner, but later (probably in the morning, so I don't disturb evening locking) I'll check the MC Qs.

ETMX was ringing up when it was mis-aligned for Y arm locking. I restored the input matrix to something more diagonal and its now damping again. Needs more work before we can use the calculated matrix.

Since Andrey's SUS Drift mon screen back in 2007, we've had several versions which used different schemes and programming languages. Diego made an update back in January.

Today I added his stuff to the SVN since it was lost in the NFS disks somewhere. Its in SUS/DRIFT_MON/.

Since we've been updating our userapps directory recently to pull in the screens and scripts from the sites, we also got a copy of the Thomas Abbott drift mon stuff which is better (Diego actually removed the yellow/red functionality as part of the 'upgrade'), but more complicated. For now we have the old one. I updated the good values with all optics roughly aligned just a few minutes ago.
 

On Friday, I deleted a bunch of filters from the c1susvme2 optics' screens (MC1,2,3 + SRM) so as to reduce the CPU load and keep it from going bonkers.

This first plot shows the CPU trend over the last 40 days and 40 nights. As you can see the CPU_LOAD has dropped by 1 us since I did the deleting.

In the second plot (on the right) you can see the same trend but over 400 days and nights. Of course, we hope that we throw this away soon, but until then it will be nice to have the suspensions be working more often.

[Paco, JC, Yuta]

This morning, while investigating the source of a burning smell, we turned off the c1SUS 1X4 power strip powering the sorensens. After this, we noticed the MC1 refl was not on the camera, and in general other vertex SUS were misaligned even though JC had aligned the IFO in the morning to almost optimum arm cavity flashing. After a c1susaux modbusIOC service restart and burt restore, the problem persisted.

We started to debug the sus rack chain for PRM since the oplev beam was still near its alignment so we could use it as a sensor. The first weird thing we noticed was that no matter how much we "kicked" PRM, we wouldn't see any motion on the oplev. We repeatedly kicked UL coil and looked at the coil driver inputs and outputs, and also verified the eurocard had DC power on which it did. Somehow disconnecting the acromag inputs didn't affect the medm screen values, so that made us suspicious that something was weird with these ADCs.

Because all the slow channels were in a frozen state, we tried restarting c1susaux and the acromag chassis and this fixed the issue.

It turns out that nodus doesn't know how to NDS2, so I can't run diagAllSUS as a cron job on nodus. To further complicate things, no other machines can run the elog utility, so I am going to have to do something shifty...

I actually tried to do this last night, but I was getting a terminal error from nodus. Jamie told me to just manually redefine the TERM variable and it would work. So, I have added kickAll and diagAllSUS to controls@nodus's crontab:

nodus:~>crontab -l

0 5 * * * /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/backup/rsync.backup

0 7 * * * /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/backup/check_backup.sh 

0 17 * * 0 /cvs/cds/caltech/users/jenne/LIGOX/LIGOX_Pizza_Reminders.sh

0 8 * * 0 /cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/SUS/peakFit/kickAll

0 18 * * 0 /cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/SUS/peakFit/diagAllSUS

This is my current understanding of the in-vacuum wiring:
1. Facts

• We have the in-air cable pinout. And Gautam recently made a prototype of D2100014 custom cable, and it worked as expected.
• The vacuum feedthrough is a wall with the male pins on the both sides. This mirrors pinout.
• On the in-vacuum cable stand (bracket), the cable has a female connector.

2. From the above facts, the in-vacuum cable is

• DSUB25 female-female cable
• There is no pinout mirroring

Accuglass has the DSUB25 F-F cable off-the-shelf. However, this cable mirrors the pinout (see the datasheet on the pdf in the following link)
https://www.accuglassproducts.com/connector-connector-extension-cable-25-way-female

3. The options are
- ask Accuglass to make a twisted version so that the pinout is not mirrored.
or
- combine Accuglass female-male cable (https://www.accuglassproducts.com/connector-connector-extension-cable-25-way-femalemale) and a gender changer (https://www.accuglassproducts.com/gender-adapter-25d)

4. The length will be routed from the feedthrough to the table via the stacks like a snake to be soft. So, it will require some extra length.

5. Also, the Accuglass cables don't have a flap and holes to fix the connector to a cable post (tower). If we use a conventional 40m-style DSUB25 post (D010194), it will be compatible with their cables. But this will not let us use a DSUB25 male connector to mate. In the future, the suspension will be upgraded and we will need an updated cable post that somehow holds the connectors without fastening the screws...

Has default inmat:

PRM, ITMX

Has fancy inmat:

BS, ITMY, SRM (but side is non-fancy), ETMX, ETMY, MC1, MC2, MC3

So it's likely that the MICH problems (giganto 1Hz peak) Keiko and Kiwamu were seeing last night had to do with ITMX having the non-optimized input matrix.  I'll try to figure out where the data from the last freeswing test is, and put in a fancy diagonalized matrix.

Rana asked me to look at the SUS MEDM screen upgrade situation, and provide an upgrade prescription.  Unfortunately there not really a simple prescription that can be used, since our configuration diverges quite a bit from what's at the sites.  But here's what I can say:

It looks like we already have the beginnings of an upgrade in place, so I say we just run with that.  The new screens are in:

/opt/rtcds/userapps/release/sus/c1/medm/new

The primary screen is:

/opt/rtcds/userapps/release/sus/c1/medm/new/OVERVIEW.adl

This seems to be a copy of the site ASC_TIPTILT screens.  (In fact I think I remember putting this here).  I went ahead and did some ground work to make it easier to get these new screens into place.

• I cleaned up all the channel name prefixes so that at least the channel prefixes will resolve to our SUS channels.
• I made a link from the sitemap with some of the correct macros to fill some things in appropriately: "IFO SUS/NEW ETMX"
• I fixed the names to the sub-screens, so that it correctly opens the correct sub-screens (although the macros seem to not be passed correctly)

At this point someone needs to just go through and fix all the channel names to match ours, and tweak the screen to our needs (there's no side OSEM, for instance).  The subscreens need to be cleaned up as well.

sed replace string

If there is a specific string you want to replace every instance of in the screen, you can do that easily from the command line like this:

sed -i 's/OLD/NEW/g'  

This will replace every instance of the string OLD with the string new in the file path/to/file.  Be careful: this will replace EVERY instance of OLD.  If OLD matches things you don't want, they will be replaced as well.

This construction is actually "regular expressions", so if you want to get fancy you can match against more complicated strings.  But just be careful.

If you leave out the "-i" the string-replaced text will go to stdout, instead of being replaced in the file "in place", so you can check it first.

query replace in emacs

If you want more fine-grained control of text replace, so that you can see what's being replaced, try using "query-replace" in emacs:

M-x query-replace

You can then type in the original string, followed by the replacement string.  When it starts to run it will highlight the string that will be replaced.  Hit "space" to accept or "n" to skip and go to the next.

I'm not sure if this has something to do with the model restarts / new RCG, but while I was re-enabling the MC watchdogs, I noticed the RMS sensor voltage channels on ITMX hovering around ~100mV, even though local damping was on (in which configuration I would expect <1mV if everything is working normally).  I was confused by this behaviour, and after staring at the ITMX suspension screen for a while, I noticed that the input to the "ASCP" and "ASCY" servos were "-nan", and the outputs were 10^20 cts  (see Attachment #1).

Digging a little deeper, I found that the same problem existed on ITMY, ETMX, ETMY, PRM (but not BS or SRM) - reasons unknown for now.

I have to check where this signal is coming from, but for now I just turned the "ASC Input" switch off. More investigation to be done, but in the meantime, ASS dither alignment may not be possible.

After consulting with Jamie, I have just disabled all outputs to the suspensions other than local damping loop outputs. I need to figure out how to get this configuration into the safe.snap file such that until we are sure of what is going on, the models start up in this safer configuration.

gedit 28 Oct 0026: Seems like this problem is seen at the sites as well. I wonder if the problem is related.

I spent some time today trying to debug this issue.

Jamie and I had opened up the c1sus frontend to try and replace the RFM card before we realized that the problem was in the RCG code generator. During this process, we had disconnected all of the back-panel cabling to this machine (2 ethernet cables, dolphin cable, and RFM cables/fibers). I thought I may have accidentally returned the cables to the wrong positions - but all the status indicator lights indicate that everything is working as it should, and I also confirmed that the cabling is as it is in the pictures of the rack on the wiki page.

Looking at the SimuLink model diagram (see Attachment #1 for example), it looks like (at least some of) these channels are actually on the dolphin network, and not the RFM network (with which we were experiencing problems). This suggests that the problem is something deeper. Although I did see nans in some of the ETMX ASC channels as well, for which the channels are piped over the RFM network. Even more puzzling is that the ASC MEDM screen (Attachment #3) and the SimuLink diagram (Attachment #2) suggest that there is an output matrix in between the input signals and the output angular control signals to the suspensions. As Attachment #4 shows, the rows corresponding to ITMX PIT and YAW are zero (I confirmed using z read <matrixElement>). Attachment #3 shows that the output of all the servo banks except CARM_YAW is zero, but CARM_YAW has no matrix element going to the ITMs (also confirmed with z read <servoOutputChannel>). So 0 x 0 should be 0, but for some reason the model doesn't give this output?

GV Edit: As EricQ just pointed out to me, nan x 0 is still nan, which probably explains the whole issue. Poking a little further, it seems like this is an SDF issue - the SDF table isn't able to catch differences for this hold output channel.

As I was writing this elog, I noticed that, as mentioned above, the CARM_YAW output was "nan". When I restart the model (thankfully this didn't crash c1lsc!), it seems to default to this state. Opening up the filter module, I saw that the "hold output" was enabled.

Toggling that switch made the nans in all the SUS ASC channels disappear. Mysterious .

All the points above stand - CARM_YAW output shouldn't have been going anywhere as per the output matrix, but it seems to have been responsible? Seems like a bug in any case if a model restarts with a field as "nan".

Anyways the problem seems to have been resolved so I'm going to try locking and dither aligning the arms now.

Rolf mentioned that a simple update could fix several of the CDS issues we are facing (e.g. inability to open up testpoints), but he didn't seem to have any insight into this particular issue. Jamie will try and recompile all the models and then we have to see if that fixes the remaining problems.

 The optical levers were centered during these measurements  without the reference of locked cavities.  They have no reference value now.

SRM sus need some help. ITMX is showing pitch/yaw modes of the pendulum .....OSEM damping is weak?

In addition to the OL quadrants, you need to plot the OPLEV_PERROR and OPLEV_YERROR signals since these are the real signals we use for finding the mirror motion. If they're not in the Dataviewer, Jamie should add them as 256 Hz DAQ channels (using these names so that we have the continuity with the past). These DAQ channels correspond to the IN1 channels for the OL filter banks.

Also JPG are banned from the elog - you should put all of the plots into a single, multipage PDF file in honor of the new Wagonga.

Indicated by the red arrow:
Even when the side damping servo is off, the number appears at the input of the output matrix

Indicated by the green arrows:
The face magnets and the side magnets use different ADCs. How about opening a custom ADC panel that accommodates all ADCs at once? Same for the DAC.

Indicated by the blue arrows:
This button opens a custom FM window. When the pitch gain was modified with a ramping time, the pitch and yaw gain grows at the same time even though only the pitch gain was modified.

Indicated by the orange circle:
The numbers are not indicated here, but they are input-related numbers (for watchdogging) rather than output-related numbers. It is confusing to place them here.

Seen. Thanks.

Red Arrow: The channel was labeled incorrectly as INMON instead of OUTPUT

Green Arrow: OK, I will create a custom medm screen for this.

Blue arrow: Hmm, OK I will look into this. Doing this work remotely is a pain as the medm response is quite slow for poking around.

Orange circle: OK, I'll move this to the left side of the line.

Note to self: I also noticed another error on the side (LPYS blue box just b4 the sum). The channel is pointing to YAW instead of the side, so needs to be fixed as well.

All done (almost)! I still have not sorted the issue of pitch and yaw gains growing together when modified using ramping time. Image of custom ADC and DAC panel is attached.

1. I suggest not naming this the LSC model, since it has no LSC stuff.
2. Also remove all the diagnostic stuff in the plant model. We need nothing except a generic filter Module, like in the SUS controller.
3. Also, the TF looks kind of weird to me. I would like to see how you derive that eq.
4. Connect the models and show us some plots of the behavior in physical units using FOTON to make the filters and diaggui/DTT (at first) to make the plots.

The first version of the single filter plant is below. Jon and I went through compiling a model and running it on the docker (see this post)

We activated an early version of the plant model (from about 10 years ago) but this model was not designed to run on its own so we had to ground lots of unconnected pieces. the model compiled and ran so we moved on to the x1sus_single_plant model that I prepared.

This model is shown in the first attachment wasn't made to be run alone because it is technically a locked library (see the lock in the bottom left). It is supposed to be referenced by another file: x1sup.mdl (see the second attachment). This works great in the Simulink framework. I add the x1sus_single_plant model to the path and Matlab automatically attaches the two. but the docker does not seem to be able to combine the two. Starting the cymac it gives these errors:

I have tried putting the x1sus_single_plant.mdl file everywhere as well as physically dragging the blocks that I need into the x1sup.mdl file but it always seems to throw an error. Basically, I want to combine them into one file that is not referencing anything other than the CDS library but I cant figure out how to combine them.

Okay but the next problem is the medm screen generation. When we had the original 2010 model running the sitemap did not include it. It included models that weren't even running before but not the model Jon and I had added. I think this is because the other models that were not running had medm screens made for them. I need to figure out how to generate those screens. I need to figure out how to use the tool Chris made to auto-generate medm screens from Simulink but I can't seem to figure it out. And honestly, it won't be much use to me until I can actually connect the plant block to its framework. One option is to just copy each piece over one by one. this will take forever but at this point, I am frustrated enough to try it. I'll try to give another update later tonight.

To add the required library: put the .mdl file that contains the library into the userapps/lib folder. That will allow it to compile correctly

I got these errors:

I removed all IPC parts (as seen in Attachment 1) and that did the trick. IPC parts (Inter-Process Communication) were how this model was linked to the controller so I don't know how exactly how I can link them now. 

I also went through the model and grounded all un-attached inputs and outputs. Now the model compiles

Also, The computer seems to be running very slowly in the past 24 hours. I know Jon was working on it so I'm wondering if that had any impact. I think it has to do with the connection speed because I am connected through X2goclient. And one thing that has probably been said before but I want to note again is that you don't need a campus VPN to access the docker.

Now that the model is finally compiled I need to make an medm screen for it and put it in the c1sim:/home/controls/docker-cymac/userapps/medm/ directory. 

But before doing that I really want to test it using the autogenerated medm screens which are in the virtual cymac in the folder /opt/rtcds/tst/x1/medm/x1sup. In Jon's post he said that I can use the virtual path for sitemap after running $ eval $(./env_cymac)

When the cymac is started it gives me a list of channels shown below. 

But when I enter it into the Diaggui I get an error:

My guess is that need to connect to the Diaggui to something that can access those channels. I also need to figure out what those channels are.

After a helpful meeting with Jon, we realized that I have somehow corrupted the sitemap file. So I am going to use the code Chris wrote to regenerate it. 

Also, I am going to connect the controller using the IPC parts. The error that I was having before had to do with the IPC parts not being connected properly. 

I added the IPC parts back to the plant model so that should be done now. It looks like this again here.

I can't seem to find the control model which should look like this. When I open sus_single_control.mdl, it just shows the C1_SUS_SINGLE_PLANT.mdl model. Which should not be the case.

When using mdl2adl I was getting the error:

to set these in the terminal use the following commands:

On most of the systems, there is a script that automatically runs when a terminal is opened that sets these but that hasn't been added here so you must run these commands every time you open the terminal when you are using mdl2adl.

I copied c1scx.mdl to the docker to attach to the plant using the commands:

Working with Chris, we decided that it is probably better to use a simple filter module as a controller before we make the model more complicated. I will use the plant model that I have already made (see attachment 1 of this). then attach a single control filter module to that: as seen in attachment 1. because I only want to work with one degree of freedom (position) I will average the four outputs which should give me the position. Then by feeding the same signal to all four inputs I should isolate one degree of freedom while still using the premade plant model.

The model I made that is shown in attachment 2 is the model I made from the plan. And it complies! yay! I think there is a better way to do the average than the way I showed. And since the model is feeding back on itself I think I need to add a delay which Rana noted a while ago. I think it was a UnitDelay (see page 41 of RTS Developer’s Guide). So I will add that if we run into problems but I think there is enough going on that it might already be delayed.

Since our model (x1sup_isolated.mdl) has compiled we can open the medm screens for it. I provide a procedure below which is based on Jon's post. 

To see a list of all medm screens use:

Some of the other useful ones are:

The first one of these screens that are of interest to us (shown in attachment 3) is the X1SUP_ISOLATED_GDS_TP.adl screen, which is the CDS runtime diagnostics screen. This screen tells us "the success/fail state of the model and all its dependencies." I am still figuring out these screens and the best guide is T1100625.

The next step is taking some data and seeing if I can see the position damp over time. To do this I need to:

1. Edit the plant filter for the model and add the correct filter.
2. Figure out a filter for the control system and add it to that. (I can leave it as is to see what the plant is doing) 
3. Take some position data to show that the plant is a harmonic oscillator and is damping away.

The transfer function given in the previous post was slightly incorrect the units did not make sense the new function is:

I have attached a quick derivation below in attachment 1

The plant transfer function of the pendulum in the s domain is:

Using Foton to make a plot of the TF needed and using m=40kg, w₀=3Hz, and Q=50 (See attachment 1). It is easiest to enter the above filter using RPoly and saved it as Plant_V1

I was able to measure the transfer function of the plant filter module from the channel X1:SUP-C1_SUS_SINGLE_PLANT_Plant_POS_Mod_EXC to X1:SUP-C1_SUS_SINGLE_PLANT_Plant_POS_Mod_OUT. The resulting transfer function is shown below. I have also attached the raw data for making the graph.

Next, I will make a script that will make the photon filters for all the degrees of freedom and start working on the matrix version of the filter module so that there can be multiple degrees of freedom.