ID |
Date |
Author |
Type |
Category |
Subject |
Text |
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17656
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Sat Jun 24 21:31:02 2023 |
Mayank | Update | Electronics | Transfer function of the new coil driver board | I measured the transfer function
of the new coil driver board. This was done
to estimate the correct Sim-Dewhithinng and |
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17676
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Mon Jul 10 17:12:02 2023 |
Mayank | Update | Electronics | ETMX Coil Driver Mode | I modified the Binary Input DB9 connector.
The coil drivers are now operating with the
Run/Acq LED off. As per 17656 |
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3126
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Mon Jun 28 11:27:08 2010 |
Megan | Update | Electronics | Marconi Phase Noise | Using the three Marconis in 40m at 11.1
MHz, the Three Cornered Hat technique was
used to find the individual noise of each |
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3240
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Fri Jul 16 20:25:52 2010 |
Megan | Update | PSL | Reference Cavity Insulation | Rana and I
1) took the temperature sensors off
the reference cavity; |
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3260
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Wed Jul 21 15:43:38 2010 |
Megan | Summary | PSL | Copper Layer Thickness on the Reference Cavity | Using the equation for thermal resistance
Rthermal = L/(k*A)
where k is the thermal conductivity |
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3159
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Tue Jul 6 17:05:30 2010 |
Megan and Joe | Update | Computers | c1iovme reboot | We rebooted c1iovme because the lines stopped
responding to inputs on C1:I00-MC_DRUM1.
This fixed the problem. |
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6341
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Wed Feb 29 17:32:11 2012 |
Mike | Update | Computers | PyNDS and a Plot |
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6479
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Tue Apr 3 12:42:19 2012 |
Mike J. | Update | Computers | Hysteresis Model | Here's my first hysteresis model in Simulink.
It's based on the equation y=Amplitude*sin(frequency*t+phase)+(hysteresis/frequency2)
as a solution to y''+frequency2*y+hysteresis=0. |
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6485
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Wed Apr 4 21:43:16 2012 |
Mike J. | Update | Computers | Better Hysteresis Model | A better hysteresis model based on the
simple harmonic oscillator equation. Useless
variables have been removed and output can |
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6487
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Thu Apr 5 01:07:08 2012 |
Mike J. | Update | Computers | Hysteresis Plots | Here are the hysteresis plots from the
most recent
model, which uses a modified harmonic |
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6500
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Fri Apr 6 19:40:57 2012 |
Mike J. | Summary | General | Laser Emergency Shutoff | I accidently shut off the laser at 19:34
with the emergency shutoff button while trying
to tap into a video line for the Sensoray |
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6502
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Fri Apr 6 20:24:31 2012 |
Mike J. | Update | Computers | Sensoray | The Sensoray device is currently viewing
Monitor 4 and plugged into Pianosa.
The user interface is run at /home/controls/Downloads/sdk_2253_1.2.2_linux/python |
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6503
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Fri Apr 6 20:38:41 2012 |
Mike J. | Update | Computers | Sensoray | Turns out that the "MPEG-4 VES"
video format is just bad for captured video.
Everything except "MP4" and "MPEG-TS" |
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6505
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Sat Apr 7 01:45:02 2012 |
Mike J. | Update | Computers | Even Better Hysteresis Model and Plots | The new hysteresis model is slightly
based on the SHO equation, but with the force
being out of phase with the position by an |
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6507
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Sat Apr 7 02:01:29 2012 |
Mike J. | Update | Computers | Projector Cable Management | I replaced the projector video and power
cables with longer ones, and zip-tied them
to the ceiling and wall so they don't block |
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6513
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Mon Apr 9 20:02:19 2012 |
Mike J. | Update | Computers | Sensoray | The highest resolution available is 720x480
pixels. Bit depth of captured images and
video is most likely 16 bits per pixel. Video |
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6530
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Thu Apr 12 22:04:17 2012 |
Mike J. | Update | Computers | New Hysteresis Model & Plots | The new hysteresis model uses a triangle
wave with offset zero points as the position
function and a sinusoidal force function, |
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6592
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Tue May 1 17:42:15 2012 |
Mike J. | Update | Computers | Sensoray | I've upgraded the Sensoray GUI so it can
now switch the video channel it receives,
thanks to the videoswitch script. |
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6645
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Tue May 15 23:40:46 2012 |
Mike J. | Update | Computers | Image Subtraction | I acquired 2 raw frames of MC2 using "/users/mjenson/sensoray/sdk_2253_1.2.2_linux/capture
-n -s 720x480 -f 1", one while the
laser was off the mode cleaner and another |
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7362
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Fri Sep 7 15:31:52 2012 |
Mike J. | Update | Computers | Sensoray back up | Video Capture with the Sensoray works again.
Pianosa just needed mplayer installed for
it to play properly. |
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7364
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Fri Sep 7 17:24:16 2012 |
Mike J. | Update | Computers | Sensoray Video Capture | To capture video with the Sensoray, open
the GUI (python ./demo.py), simply press
"Save," enter a filename, and hit |
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7380
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Thu Sep 13 19:59:43 2012 |
Mike J. | Update | Electronics | AS beam scan | **EDIT:** Mixed up X and Y. Beam is
3.5844 |
|
7386
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Fri Sep 14 01:35:55 2012 |
Mike J. | Update | Electronics | AS beam scan PLOTS | |
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7404
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Tue Sep 18 22:06:21 2012 |
Mike J. | Update | Electronics | AS beam scan plots and chi-squared | Results of the Razor Blade Beam Scan
The horizontal blade test measured
the beam intensity as a razor blade passed |
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7427
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Fri Sep 21 22:25:44 2012 |
Mike J. | Update | General | POX, POY, PR2 pics | Unaltered PR2 images, with IR card, without
card, and steering mirror:
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10x |
14626
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Mon May 20 21:45:20 2019 |
Milind | Update | | Traditional cv for beam spot motion | Went through all of Pooja's elog posts,
her report and am currently cleaning up her
code and working on setting up the simulations |
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14632
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Thu May 23 08:51:30 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Setting up beam spot simulation | I have done the following thus far since
elog #14626:
Simulation: |
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14635
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Thu May 23 15:37:30 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Simulation enhancements and performance of contour detection |
Implemented image level noise for
simulation. Added only uniform random noise.
Implemented
addition of uniform random noise to any sinusoidal |
6x |
14638
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Sat May 25 20:29:08 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Simulation enhancements and performance of contour detection |
I used the same motion as defined
in the previous elog. I gradually added noise
to the images. Noise added was uniform random |
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14649
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Mon Jun 3 21:03:54 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Steps to interact with GigE | The following steps summarize the steps
to setting up and interacting with a GigE
camera. |
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14650
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Mon Jun 3 23:18:59 2019 |
Milind | Update | Computer Scripts / Programs | updating bashrc | I was working with the git repo in the
SnapPy_pypylon folder (/cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/GigE/SnapPy_pypylon)
and needed to create a branch. To avoid any |
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14654
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Tue Jun 4 22:24:45 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Steps to interact with GigE | Figured out how to get/grab frames by looking
at the pypylon
documenation as that turned out to be |
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14656
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Wed Jun 5 22:30:13 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Steps to interact with GigE | Thanks! It does indeed do the trick! With
that I was able to
Obtain current exposure |
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14657
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Thu Jun 6 16:01:52 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Steps to interact with GigE | [Koji, Milind]
Today I ran into the following |
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14661
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Mon Jun 10 22:22:19 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Steps to interact with GigE | Steps to take snapshots using GigE at different
exposures [Instructions for Kruthi]:
Setup C1-CAM-ETMX.ini (/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/GigE/SnapPy_pypylon/C1-CAM-ETMX.ini) |
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14662
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Tue Jun 11 00:00:15 2019 |
Milind | HowTo | PSL | Steps to lock the PMC | Today, Rana had me key the PSL crate.
Locating the rack:
the crate is 1X1. This |
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14667
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Wed Jun 12 22:02:04 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Simulation enhancements | Today, Rana asked me to work on improving
simulations based on the ideas we discussed
last week. As of the previous elog the simulation |
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14669
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Thu Jun 13 15:08:31 2019 |
Milind | Update | Electronics | VCO pickup by Rich | Rich dropped by at around 3:00 PM today
and picked up the VCO in Attachment #1 and
left the note in Attachment #2 on Gautam's |
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14671
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Thu Jun 13 21:29:52 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Steps to interact with GigE | As directed by Gautam, I have set up one
script- interact.py (at /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/GigE/SnapPy_pypylon/interact.py)
to perform the following two tasks: |
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14678
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Mon Jun 17 14:36:13 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Convolutional neural networks for beam tracking | Begun setting up an environment (as mentioned
before, on my local machine) and scripts
to run experiments with Convolutional |
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14680
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Mon Jun 17 22:19:04 2019 |
Milind | Update | Computer Scripts / Programs | PMC autolocker | As Rana asked me to in the last meeting,
I dug through the elogs to determine what
had become of the previous autolockers. I |
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14682
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Tue Jun 18 22:54:59 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Convolutional neural networks for beam tracking | Worked further on this. I skimmed through
a few resources to look for details of what
pre-processing can be done. Here |
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14694
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Tue Jun 25 00:25:47 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Convolutional neural networks for beam tracking | In the previous meeting, Koji pointed out
(once again) that I should determine if the
displacement values and frames are synchronized |
8x |
14697
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Tue Jun 25 22:14:10 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Convolutional neural networks for beam tracking | I discussed this with Gautam and he asked
me to come up with a list of signals that
I would need for my use and then design the |
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14698
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Tue Jun 25 23:52:37 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Simulation enhancements | Yesterday,
Rana asked me to look at Hiro Yamamoto's |
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14700
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Wed Jun 26 11:11:40 2019 |
Milind | Update | IOO | PMC and IMC locked again, some MEDM maintenance | After helping Aaron key the crate and do
a burt restore, I realized that it would
probably be best to record the steps that |
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14706
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Thu Jun 27 20:48:22 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Convolutional neural networks for beam tracking | And
finally, a network is trained!
Result summary (TLDR :-P) |
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14710
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Sun Jun 30 22:02:26 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Keyed c1aux crate | I wanted to try out the unstick.py script
on c1aux but kept running into timeout errors.
I was also confronted by a blank GigE screen. |
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14711
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Sun Jun 30 22:21:07 2019 |
Milind | Update | IOO | PMC and IMC locked again, some MEDM maintenance | Wrote the script. It currently lives at
/users/milind/NonlinearControl/milind/unstick/unstick.py.
Also pushed it to the repo here. |
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14713
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Mon Jul 1 11:02:05 2019 |
Milind | Update | IOO | PMC and IMC locked again, some MEDM maintenance | Made changes as discussed in this
issue. Further, I need to add signal handling
capabilities to the code. I belive Jon has |
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