PTCS Software Queue

Servo

Task Priority	Task	Info/MR	Lead	Sponsor,Team	Notes	MR Status	Date Required/Task Status
	Servo Software MR		MelindaMello	JoeBrandt, PeteWhiteis		N/A
10A	build and test matlab generated models in linux/rtai	MatlabCodeRTWNotes	MelindaMello	JoeBrandt
10B	Servo Software Design 'Roadmap'	Design documents	JoeBrandt, MelindaMello	?	Melinda, Pete and I are working on designs for the configuration, input/output and kernel(interfaces).
10C	Determine Interface(s) between core software and control kernel	Kernel to Core Interfaces	JoeBrandt, MelindaMello
10D	OCU Replacement Design	Design document?
10E	Data logging System Design	Data Logging?
10F	Testbed Design	Testbed Design?
10G	Fault Detection Design	Fault System Design?
10H	Status System Design	Status Sytem Design?
10I	Develop HW Configuration file format as well as associated parsing routines.		PeteWhiteis		Design of files was peer reviewed by Melinda & Joe. It was decided to use XML as a file format. Example XML files were generated and a file parsing class was written and tested.
XX	Configurator Module Design	Configurator Design
xxx	EtherCat? proof of concept		PeteWhiteis		Working with tweadon to review and understand design of Ethercat communication protocol. Have reviewed the Ethercat Master design documentation. Am currently pouring over the NetX? Slave protocol interface document. Evaluation boards arrive next week which should enable a prototyping effort to begin.

Holography

Task Priority	Task	Info/MR	Lead	Sponsor,Team	Notes	MR Status	Date Required/Task Status
2	Add DIO interface to Linux Holography Manager	ModificationRequest12C507	JohnFord	ToddHunter, JohnFord, PeteWhiteis	Implementing approved design. Troubleshooting some timing issues in interaction between manager and realtime interface to holography hardware.
5	Out-Of-Focus Holography Software Revival	ModificationRequest1C408	MelindaMello	ToddHunter	MJM: Interim solution released in 8.4. Ongoing work to continue as time permits.		interim released, work is continuing
5a	Change the Active Surface Fits table	ModificationRequest4C608	MelindaMello	ToddHunter	R		8.5 release
	Active Surface surface radius	ModificationRequest1C708	MelindaMello	ToddHunter	Add a radius parameter to the Active Surface that is used in the thermal zernike offset computations.

Active Surface

Task Priority	Task	Info/MR	Lead	Sponsor,Team	Notes	MR Status	Date Required/Task Status
9	Active Surface Rework	ModificationRequest2C208	PeteWhiteis	JohnFord, MelindaMello	ActiveSurfaceEnginneeringNotes
5	Streamline Active Surface Boot Sequence	ModificationRequest3C408	PeteWhiteis	JasonRay	Have embedded the configuration information for Motor and TNet power supplies into SupplyCtrl?.cc and have tested to ensure no egregious errors occur. Additionally the LVDT Compensation file is no longer read in, instead slopes and intercepts for all LVDTs are set inline to 1 & 0

2	Port Active Surface Master code to RTAI. Integrate with slave code.	N/A	PeteWhiteis	PeteWhiteis	See http://wiki.gb.nrao.edu/bin/view/PTCS/ActiveSurfaceEnginneeringNotes under 25-Aug-2008
3	Create separate process for MCB device polling.	N/A	PeteWhiteis	PeteWhiteis	Started looking at Ray Creager's MCB daemon. Anticipate using this component as interface to MCB hardware. Will write a simple pthread to interface w/ daemon, periodically acquire data, and pass it into Active Surface Master Monitoring system.


6	Convert the useful/necessary user interface routines to RTAI/LINUX	N/A	Main.Pete.Whiteis	PeteWhiteis	Have just started looking into this. A number of Shell options exist for configuration and control of active surface. Need to first determine which options are useful or necessary, and then integrate them into a menu system which can be invoked as a standalone executable.

General

Task Priority	Task	Info/MR	Lead	Sponsor,Team	Notes	MR Status	Date Required/Task Status
1	General PTCS Support	N/A	JoeBrandt, MelindaMello, PeteWhiteis	MartyBloss		N/A
6	Improve GFM's and PrePoint's processing of CCB peak/focus data.	ModificationRequest2C707	AmyShelton	FrankGhigo
7	Improve GFM's processing of peak/focus scans using the DCR with the KA-band receiver.	ModificationRequest9C507	AmyShelton	FrankGhigo
8	Modify Peak Finding Algorithm for Pointing/Focus Code	ModificationRequest4C207	AmyShelton	FrankGhigo, JoeBrandt	FrankGhigo and ToddHunter have settled on GaussianFilter as preferred method. However, since this approach changes the resultant pointing offset values, deployment of the selected approach will be postponed until after the new pointing model is implemented this summer (ModificationRequest1C407). Deployment on HOLD - confirmed with ToddHunter 29 Nov 2007.
11	Analysis of Trajectory Generation Problems	TrajectoryAnalysis	JoeBrandt	JohnFord	Work has essentially stalled on this due to demands on other tasks.	N/A
12	Find/Fix Command Stream Glitches	add link to analysis or eventual MR	JoeBrandt	JohnFord
18	Create Pyrgeometer Manager	ModificationRequest2C207	JoeBrandt	JohnFord
4	SCU-AUX software and SCU software modifications to I/F with Feed Arm Servo PLC upgrade	ModificationRequest2C408	JoeBrandt	TimWeadon	Now have resolution on remaining issue. Timeframe for release is 8/11/08 depending upon Tim's final tests. 8/7/08: Updated to match refinements in PLC code.
5	Configure/Install RTAI on RH5/64bit system		JoeBrandt		RTAIlab-GUI's/Eng. tools status: * Original RTAILAB - Now builds. Fixed a couple of bugs in the efltk toolkit, but still is a bit unstable. * QT based RTAILAB - Revisiting this.
1	Develop mcTime replacement for RTAI/x86 platform	McTime	PeteWhiteis	JoeBrandt	Initial phase of development/testing complete. Now being used for RTAI implementation of Active Surface	N/A

Key for the "MR Status" column:

(%Y%) means the MR has final sponsor sign-off
(%M%) means the MR is awaiting final sponsor sign-off
(%S%) means the MR is being implemented (has CCC approval)
(%X%) means the MR needs CCC approval
(%P%) means the MR is either being written, checked, or needs initial sponsor approval
N/A means there is no MR for this task

Key for the "Task Status" column:

(%Y%) means the task has been successfully completed
(%M%) means the task has been completed and is awaiting integration tests
(%S%) means the task has been completed and is awaiting sponsor tests
(%X%) means the task will not be completed this cycle, but was expected to be completed
ok means that the task is not yet complete or ready for tests, but ALS has evaluated results & progress is clearly on track

Completed Tasks

Task Priority	Task	Info/MR	Lead	Sponsor,Team	Notes	MR Status	Date Required/Task Status
4	Add Thermal Zernike Coefficients to Active Surface Manager	ModificationRequest8C308	MelindaMello	ToddHunter	MJM 5/15/2008:Sponsor tested during integration and released in 8.3. I had to spend some time on finding a "heizen bug in the Active Surface unit tests".
13	Fix Pointing Update Glitches	ModificationRequest3C208	JoeBrandt	JohnFord	Complete. Will be released with 8.2
14	Change Method of Velocity Generation for Pointing Model	ModificationRequest9C208	JoeBrandt	ToddHunter	Complete. Will be released with 8.2
3	Propagate Active Surface Zeros File Version to Engineering FITS File	ModificationRequest14C208	JoeBrandt	ToddHunter, FredSchwab
15	Add Decimation filter to sampler2log	ModificationRequest2C308	JoeBrandt	KevinSexton
16	Increase sampling bandwidth on Servo Monitor	ModificationRequest3C308	PeteWhiteis	KevinSexton	Added buffering to Vmic3118 driver to prevent data loss during data transport cycle. Tested with Sponsor (K Sexton, and during integration tests and verified results. Awaiting final sponsor sign off.
17	CCU Servo Interlock Update	ModificationRequest03C042007	JoeBrandt	JohnFord, TimWeadon	Complete and ready for deployment. (Should be around 8/11/08)
1	Develop mcTime replacement for RTAI/x86 platform	McTime	PeteWhiteis	JoeBrandt	Initial phase of development/testing complete. Now being used for RTAI implementation of Active Surface	N/A
1	Port Active Surface Slave code to RTAI	N/A	PeteWhiteis	PeteWhiteis	Done for now. Have code up and running, sampling 'virtual' positions and status data for 17 actuator sets on 1 IIOP. Full expect to have to touch this code again when integrating/testing master code.
4	Eliminate use of RPC for master/slave communications	N/A	PeteWhiteis	PeteWhiteis	The RPC interface between master and slave is redundant now that the master and slave code reside in the same processor space. Now the Dispatch class circumvents RPC and call the Slave Access routines directly.
5	Eliminate translation from Master to Slave format	N/A	PeteWhiteis	PeteWhiteis	Need to remove all translating master < == > slave actuator space for 2 slave system. This was not intuitive for me, and I've had to spend a bit of time breaking out the translation code and unit testing just so I understood what was happening in the translation process. Next step is to replace the 2 slave arrays with a single double sized array and compare results with unit test. Done.
6	Create separate process for MCB device polling.	n/a	PeteWhiteis	PeteWhiteis	Started looking at Ray Creager's MCB daemon. Anticipate using this component as interface to MCB hardware. Will write a simple pthread to interface w/ daemon, periodically acquire data, and pass it into Active Surface Master Monitoring system.

-- MelindaMello - 28 Apr 2008

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