CONTROL SYSTEM FOR POLARIMETER

Rishabh Shukla
Electronics & Communication Engineering, RJIT Gwalior * Joined PRL on June 3, 2013 under the guidance of Dr. Shashikiran Ganesh * Summer Research Fellowship Programme organized by Indian Academy of Sciences

July 8, 2013

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Overview

Embedded Control Sytem of Polarimeter

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Hardware Used Drawbacks in System

New Control System

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Its Features Linux Device Driver Programming

Summary

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Present Embedded Control System

First Board is used for interfacing I/O Devices Board for controlling USB interfaced Charge Couple Device(CCD) camera. Board for Ethernet connectivity for communication between various CPU. Set of 3 boards with 82c54 ICs to rotate stepper motor and to count pulses from two PMTs.

Drawbacks in present Device

Too many boards Diculty in debugging during observations
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New Control System

Based on Mesa 4i22 counter/timer board mounted on a faster CPU board.

Features
Mesa 4i22 with 3 82C54, sucient to control entire instrument Intel Atom 1.66Ghz Processor 667MHz 2 GB DDR SDRAM Onboard Flash memory for OS and data

Figure: New Control System

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Linux Kernel Level Programming

Both user space and kernel space code was written for Ubuntu 12.04 (Kernel 3.2.x).

Waveforms
CH1 wave (orange) represents system clock CH2 waveform (cyan) is for enabling and disabling counters in 4i22 Board to count pulses coming from PMT Third waveform (magenta) is applied to each phase of the stepper motor with an oset by the system clock for each phase.

Figure: Waveforms obtained

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Summary
At Mt. Abu Observatory
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Gained familiarity with observational Astronomy and its Instrumentation Aspects.

At Thaltej campus Laboratory

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Learned and subsequently developed device driver and user program in Linux Kernel 3.2.x (in C). Developed Program is being tested in lab.

Task yet to be done

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Modify the code taking in account hardware interrupts for counting pulses from PhotoMultiplier tube
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Any Questions

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THANK YOU

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