RedPitaya used as seismic acceleration sensor

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P Luley
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RedPitaya used as seismic acceleration sensor

Post by P Luley » Thu May 17, 2018 10:08 am

Hi Everybody,

what we did so far is:

We use a RedPitaya STEMIlab 125-10 a measuring amplifier and a acceleration sensor from Wilcoxon 731A. We changed configuration of the RedPitaya so the SCPI Server is part of the autostart procedure. The measuring amplifier amplifies the signal up to +/- 10V. This Signla goes into the RF input 1 (we changed the jumper to the +/- 20V). With the python script beneath we´d like to log the amplitude of the Floor Vibration, the script itself works mostly fine, we have just one problem left. After a irregular time-span the script crashes.

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#Importing Modules
import redpitaya_scpi as scpi
import sys
import time
import os
import subprocess

#Global Variabls

#Defining the Functions

#Update Loop Function
def updating(counter, lastbuffer):
	counter=counter
	lastbuffer=lastbuffer
	#collecting data
	rp_s.tx_txt('ACQ:SOUR1:DATA?')
	buff_string=rp_s.rx_txt()
	#working with data
	buff_string=buff_string.replace("{","")
	buff_string=buff_string.replace("}","")
	buff_list = buff_string.split(",")
	buff_string=buff_string.replace(",",", \n")
	buff_list=[float(i) for i in buff_list]
	average=sum(buff_list)/len(buff_list)
	maximum=max(buff_list)
	minimum=min(buff_list)
	amplitude=maximum-minimum

	#collecting cernel temp
	coretemp=subprocess.check_output("/home/redpitaya/bin/get_temp.sh", shell=True)

	#Saving amplitude
	timestamp=time.strftime("%d:%m:%Y %H:%M:%S"  , time.localtime())
	save=""
	save=timestamp + "\t" + str(amplitude) + "\t" + coretemp[6:11]  + "\n"
	AMPLITUDE.write(save)

#	saving one buffer
#	if amplitude>0.5 and counter-lastbuffer>3:
#	    BUFFERTIMESTAMP=time.strftime("%d_%m_%Y %H_%M_%S"  , time.localtime())
#	    BUFFERNAMESTAMP=BUFFERTIMESTAMP + " Buffer"
#	    BUFFERFULLPATHNAME="/home/redpitaya/guest_share/" + BUFFERNAMESTAMP
#	    BUFFER=open(BUFFERFULLPATHNAME, mode="w", buffering=1)
#	    BUFFER.write(buff_string)
#	    BUFFER.close()
#	    print("Its over 9000!")
#	    lastbuffer=counter

	#display
	print(amplitude)
	TIMESTAMP=time.strftime("%d_%m_%Y %H_%M_%S"  , time.localtime())
	print(TIMESTAMP)
	print(coretemp)


	#Sleep
	time.sleep(2)


	counter=counter+1
	return (counter, lastbuffer)


#closing one log
def closeLog():
	AMPLITUDE.close()


#main

#mounting guestshare
mount=subprocess.Popen("mount_guest_share.sh")
mount.wait()

#Configuring Aquistion
rp_s = scpi.scpi(sys.argv[1])
rp_s.tx_txt('ACQ:DEC 65536')
rp_s.tx_txt('ACQ:START')

#starting the mainloop
print("Please enter your amplification factor:")
GAIN=input()
GAIN=str(GAIN)
while True:
	#Oeffnen der Logdatei
	TIMESTAMP=time.strftime("%d_%m_%Y %H_%M_%S"  , time.localtime())
	NAMESTAMP=TIMESTAMP + " Amplitudes"
	FULLPATHNAME="/home/redpitaya/guest_share/" + NAMESTAMP
	AMPLITUDE=open(FULLPATHNAME, mode="w", buffering=1 )
	#Schreiben des Header
	AMPLITUDE.write("timestamp [dd:mm:yyyy HH:MM:SS] \t amplitude [V] \t coretemp [C] \t Gain: "+ GAIN +"\n")
	AMPLITUDE.write("\n")
	counter=0
	lastbuffer=0
	while counter<40000:
		(counter, lastbuffer)=updating(counter, lastbuffer)
	AMPLITUDE.close()

the two subprocesses are bashscripts one for mounting a storage point by sshfs and one for the coretemp nothing special.

We log the cortemp because we thought it could be a heading problem. We changed the passiv cooling of the aluminium case to an active one. But that was not the central issue.

Feel free to comment our work or maybe better help us with the debugging.

I am looking forward fore your tip and comments

Regards from Germany

P L

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Re: RedPitaya used as seismic acceleration sensor

Post by redpitaya » Tue Oct 15, 2019 7:20 am

Thank you for posting such interesting project!

Please let us know if you will need assistance by writing to support@redpitya.com

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