The KalAO Instrument Control Software

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Features

• PLC control through OPCUA
• Thorlabs Filterwheel control through TTYUSB

TODO

• CACAO python control
• EULER Telescope inter-process communication
• Stand-alone filterwheel driver

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System deployment

• Pull into '~/kalao-ics/'
• Install configuration files symlinks:

  kalaortc01:~>cd kalao-ics/kalao-config/
  kalaortc01:~/kalao-ics/kalao-config>bash ./install_symlinks.sh

• Start systemd serviced:

  kalaortc01:~>cd kalao-ics/kalao-config/
  kalaortc01:~/kalao-ics/kalao-config>bash ./enable_systems.sh

Configure telescope header content

Edit content of

• $THOME/config/ske_fits/generic_tele/kalao_descripteurs.ske
• $THOME/config/ske_fits/generic_synchro/kalao_descripteurs.ske

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AO calibration and testing

Measuring the latency with mlat

• turn on the laser
• run mlat
• verifying output with gnuplot
• cd ~/kalao-cacao/workdir/kalao-workdir/dmloop-workdir/fps.mlat-1.datadir
• gnuplot
• gnuplot> plot "hardwlatency.dat" u 2:3

acqlin_zRM

compsCM-1

Sending turbulence on the DM

Start milk sessions by typing 'milk'

• Load turbulence file
• milk> loadfits "cube12_12_60000_v10mps_1ms_clean.fits" imc
• Open DM SHM channel
• milk> readshmim dm01disp04
• Send turbulence on DM channel at 1000 microsecond refresh rate
• milk> streamburst imc dm01disp04 1000

Help for the commands is given with:

milk> cmd? streamburst