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H1 SUS
mark.barton@LIGO.ORG - posted 07:25, Wednesday 31 October 2012 - last comment - 09:52, Wednesday 31 October 2012(4556)
ITMy TFs tonight
Mark B.

As Travis points out in a comment, this is ITMy not ITMx. Title of post and references below changed.

Preparing to take TFs on main chain of H1:ITMy (which is still wired up as H2:ITMy). I hope to start them imminently (16:40 pm, 10/30) and check progress from home tonight.

Checked at 07:21 am (10/31), damped TFs seemed to have completed successfully. Started undamped TFs.
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travis.sadecki@LIGO.ORG - 15:50, Tuesday 30 October 2012 (4557)

It is still ITMy, just moved from H2 to H1.

mark.barton@LIGO.ORG - 09:52, Wednesday 31 October 2012 (4561)
Mark B. 

Aborted undamped TFs to allow Travis to make yaw adjustment.
H1 SUS
jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:06, Tuesday 30 October 2012 - last comment - 10:18, Wednesday 31 October 2012(4553)
H1 SUS PR2 SEI/SUS Path Installation Complete
I've completed the installation of the H2 SUS PR2 ISI WIT and OFFLOAD path, such that the H1 HAM3-ISI GS13s are now projected into the H2 SUS PR2 Suspension point basis, and the H2 SUS PR2 M1 offload signal may be sent to the HAM3-ISI. Details of the design are discussed below. The following channels are now calibrated into (nano)meters or (nano)radians of motion at the H1 HAM3-ISI center of actuation and at the H1 SUS PR2 suspension point, respectively:

H1:SUS-PR2_M1_ISIINF_${CARTDOF}_OUT_DQ 
H1:SUS-PR2_M1_ISIWIT_${EULERDOF}_DQ

which are stored in the frames at 1024 Hz, where ${CARTDOF} = [X, Y, RZ, Z, RX, RY] and ${EULERDOF} = [L, T, V, R, P, Y].

I attach a couple of screenshots of the implementation in MEDM. The paths are shown at the top of the HSTS overview screen (shown in H1SUSPR2_SEISUSPaths_OverviewScreenShot.png). Clicking inside the ISIINF bank (shown in H1SUSPR2_SEISUSPaths_ISIINF.png), one sees the 4k to 16k AI filter in FM1, the conversion from ideal inertial sensor response to displacement lies in FM5, and additional gain-only filters have been installed into FMs 9 and 10, if the user so chooses to convert the displacement signal either from nanometers (nanoradians) to micrometers (microradians) in FM9 or from nanometers (nanoradians) to meters (radians) in FM10. Finally, I show the CART2EUL matrix for H1 SUS PR2 (see H1SUSPR2_SEISUSPaths_CART2EULMatrix.png), taken from
/opt/rtcds/userapps/release/isc/common/projections/ISI2SUS_projection_file.mat
computed as described in T1100617, and installed with
/ligo/svncommon/SeiSVN/seismic/Common/MatlabTools/fill_matrix_values.m

I also attach three sets of plots explaining the design:
isiinf_tonmdesign_2012-10-30.pdf --
Here, I elucidate the thought process behind the design of the "to_nm" filter in FM5 of the ISIINF filter bank, breaking the filter down into its various parts / functions.
- The GS13 signals, in the ISI's center-of-actuation, Cartesian basis (picked off from the input to the blend filters) arrives calibrated into an ideal inertial sensor response, which asymptotes to 1 [nm/s] at high-frequency (above ~1 [Hz]), and rolls off at low frequency as f^2. 
- The first step is to invert this response, shown by the "1 Hz Ideal Inertial Sensor Response to Velocity" in BLUE, leaving the signal in [nm/s] velocity units at all frequencies. This portion of the filter (in Matlab notation) is
velcal = zpk(-2*pi*[pair(1,45)],-2*pi*[0,0],1)
- Next, the signal is integrated once (i.e. the GREEN filter; convdisp = zpk([],-2*pi*[0],1)), to convert to [nm] displacement units, resulting in the CYAN filter,
velcal*convdisp = zpk(-2*pi*[pair(1,45)],-2*pi*[0,0,0],1)
Note: this is the filter that one typically uses to "finish" the calibration of the inertial sensor offline to compute an ASD of the signal.
- Finally, because we still want to have a usable time series and not have a calibration filter with infinite step response, we roll off the calibration such that signal is low-passed/AC-coupled at 10 mHz, with the (RED) filter portion, rolloff = zpk(-2*pi*[0,0,0,0],-2*pi*[0.01,0.01,0.01,0.01],1) resulting in the final, MAGENTA, TOTAL filter,

velcal * convdisp * rolloff = zpk(-2*pi*[0,0,0,0,pair(1,45)],-2*pi*[0,0,0,0.01,0.01,0.01,0.01],1)
                            = zpk(-2*pi*[0,pair(1,45)],-2*pi*[0.01,0.01,0.01,0.01],1)

which rises as f from DC, turns over at 10 mHz, falls as 1/f^3, crosses unity at 1/(2*pi*1), knees at 1 Hz to fall as 1/f out to high frequency, as expected. The corner frequency of 10 mHz was chosen for several reasons:
(1) It's roughly equivalent to the corner frequency of the T240s on ST1 of the BSC-ISI
(2) The GS-13 signals at these frequencies are dominated by sensor-noise.
(3) We wanted to still accurately reproduce the magnitude/amplitude of the signal at the microseism.
(4) We wanted the time series to be manageable during normal operation.

BE AWARE Though the magnitude/amplitude of the signals calibrated in this fashion are accurately reproduced down to ~50 [mHz], the phase lags the real signal by the difference between MAGENTA and CYAN, which already lags 22.73 [deg] by 0.1 [Hz] and as much as 180 [deg] by 10 [mHz]. (Several different options were tossed about that would have potentially improved the phase reproduction (elliptic filters, butterworth filters, etc.) but we figured, for now, perfect is the enemy of good enough.)

isiinf_filters_2012-10-30.pdf --
pgs 1-2 show the magnitude and phase of the as-implemented AA/AI filter (used as a 4k to 16k AI filter in the ISIINF banks to receive the GS13 signals, and as a 16k to 4k AA filter in the OFFLOAD banks to send the SUS offload signals out to the ISI). The filter's bump maxes out at 2.11 dB above unity around 1350 Hz, and has -79.38 dB isolation the 4096 Hz notch. The filter was implemented using the ZPK portion of the foton design suite, with 

               Mag   Phase       Mag    Phase
poles  = [pair(2*850, 55  ) pair(2*1048, 70  )];
zeros  = [pair( 4096, 89.9) pair(2*4096, 89.9)];


The details of the design for the AA/AI filter can be found in the old SEI Log entry 1937. This filter was designed to have better phase loss and anti-imaging properties at f < 100 Hz than the "standard" CDS 4k AA/AI filter, with only 5.5 deg lost at 100 Hz (the standard has ~10 deg loss). Since Lantz determined this was better for what seismic typically does with these signals -- and it's what they use to up/down-sample their signals from the IOP -- I figured "why be different?" Lantz approves.

pg 3-4 shows the magnitude and phase of the as-implemented "to_nm" filter, equivalent to velcal * convdisp * rolloff from above, but the design string in foton is subtly different because of Sigg's vs. Matlab's convention choices:

    zeros                           poles                 gain
zpk([0;0.707+i*0.707;0.707-i*0.707];[0.01;0.01;0.01;0.01],1.59e7,"n")

(note the gain of 1.59e7 = 1/(2*pi*(0.01)^4) to normalize the rolloff properly in foton's convention.)

isiinf_H1SUSPR2_2012-10-30.pdf --
These plots show the ASD and Magnitude, Phase, and Coherence of the Transfer Function between exemplary channels:
H1:ISI-HAM3_BLND_GS13X_IN1_DQ -- the inputs to the blend filters, fresh off of the ISI, calibrated in [nm/s] "offline" using DTT's calibrator with a filter identical to velcal above (scaled into [m/s] by a factor of 1e-9), and then displayed in (integrated to) displacement courtesy of DTT (which is identical to convdisp above). 
H1:SUS-PR2_ISIINF_X_OUT_DQ -- the output of the ISIINF, after AI filtering and calibrated "online" to [nm] (and then scaled to [m] by 1e-9 in DTT).
H1:SUS-PR2_ISIWIT_L_DQ -- the final result of interest: the GS13s calibrated "online" and propogated through the CART2EUL matrix to the H1 SUS PR2 suspension point.
This data was taken with the ISI active control loops completely OFF (no damping, no isolation, no nothing).

Here, we see lots of fun things:
(ASD) 
(a) Above the 10 mHz rolloff, once calibrated into the same units, the X signal is identical between the input to the blends (RED) in HAM-ISI land and the output of the ISIINFs (BLUE) in SUS land. Below the roll-off, the signals begin to diverge at ~50 mHz as expected. 
(b) The point of this whole shebang: The signal projected to the susp. point (GREEN) is different from simply assuming the X motion (BLUE) is what's input. Here, in L, we see significant contribution from both X and RY, most notably at the ~1 Hz RY resonance (a factor of two with the resonance undamped). I'm very interested to see what other degrees of freedom look like, and under different conditions of the ISI...

(COH) 
(a) As expected the coherence between the signal in ISI land and the signal in SUS land drops, simply because of the roll off filter.
(b) The coherence drops along the various cross-couplings between ISI Cartesian, center-of-actuation, basis and SUS Euler, suspension point, basis. 

(TF) 
(mag) This basically just reproduces the product of the calibration and AI filters in the bank as expected, but there are some interesting features where the cross-coupling is going on 
(pha) Same as mag. Note that L is 180 deg out of phase with X because -- you guessed it -- PR2 is pointed in the -X direction.

In conclusion:
This well-defined, in-the-same-basis, peaches-to-peaches, signal opens up a whole bunch of new possibilities for modeling the suspension's motion, least of all, for starters, it should certainly require a lot less (i.e. no) offline post processing for modelers, commissioners, and glitch hunters alike.

Now that I've got the first-article filters in place, I've already got the SEI/SUS basis matrices (for every SUS that has a system's drawing), it should be very straight-forward to get the rest of the SUS up to speed. 

Stay tuned for new found understandings!
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brett.shapiro@LIGO.ORG - 10:18, Wednesday 31 October 2012 (4562)
At Stanford we were wondering if this awesome new witness for the seismic inputs to the SUS could be used for feedforwarding between table motion and the SUS top mass. As long as the table motion is above the sensor noise, there should be useful signal that might be sent to SUS.
LHO VE
kyle.ryan@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:05, Tuesday 30 October 2012 (4559)
Corner Station instrument air restored to nominal configuration
Replaced all drying tower check-valves and solenoid valves as well as solenoid valve coils -> most of these components were original (1997) and overdue for replacement -> original desiccant will be replaced too but is on back-order at this time
H1 SUS
travis.sadecki@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:02, Tuesday 30 October 2012 (4558)
ITMy work for today

Today I continued poking at ITMy to address a couple of minor issues on our way to final alignment.  First, I replaced a wonky flag mount for the R0 Side BOSEM (poor pressfit of magnetic disc not allowing flag magnet to seat squarely).  I then adjusted the tablecloth to get it back to a more 'nominal' state where the BOSEM cams still have effective adjustment left.  I then continued with the Test Mass pointing.  I adjusted yaw of M0 by using some slop in the fixing screws for the suspension wire clamp at the Top Stage blades.  I also adjusted some more pitch out using the UIM pitch adjusters.  (Reminder at Betsy's request:  The UIM pitch adjusters have an effect of ~200µRad per full turn of each adjuster.)  The resulting measurement by IAS left ITM at:

Pitch: ~5µRad up

Yaw: ~1.04mRad CW (previously ~185µRad CCW)

Although I overshot, I now know that we have plenty of easy-to-use yaw adjustment at the wire clamp to fix the yaw error.  This work will continue tomorrow.  I then solicited Mark to run some quick TFs to check for rubbing before we get too carried away with fine alignment.

H1 INS
jodi.fauver@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:31, Tuesday 30 October 2012 (4555)
HAM1
The west door was removed from the chamber this afternoon to allow the installation of the septum viewport.
H1 INS
jodi.fauver@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:29, Tuesday 30 October 2012 (4554)
HAM3
Both the east and west doors were returned to the chamber to facilitate "dirty" work in the neighborhood.
H1 PSL
michael.rodruck@LIGO.ORG - posted 13:22, Tuesday 30 October 2012 (4551)
PSL plots

For the 35W laser. We have not adjusted the mode matching of this path, only the alignment, yet the mode matching improved already from adjusting the lenses for the 200W path.

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H1 PSL
michael.rodruck@LIGO.ORG - posted 13:20, Tuesday 30 October 2012 - last comment - 13:42, Tuesday 30 October 2012(4550)
PSL plots

For the 200W laser. RIck and I adjusted the modematching into the DBB PMC using ML1 and ML2 inside the DBB, reducing the 20-02 peak.

Note that there is a peak in the ISS_rpn plot just under 2kHz which does not appear when using the 35W laser.

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michael.rodruck@LIGO.ORG - 13:42, Tuesday 30 October 2012 (4552)

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H2 SUS
jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - posted 06:39, Tuesday 30 October 2012 (4549)
H2 SUS ITMY COILOUTF Gains Restored to Nominal (and report of new OSEMINF values)
After a long, sorted history (see LHO aLOG 4112, and previously LHO aLOGs 2109 and 2022), Travis and I were apparently successful in re-installing the M0 OSEMs on H2 SUS ITMY in such a way that they now obey convention, as per E1000617, and subsequently T120015. 

I've changed the COILOUTF gains accordingly, such that they're now

      F1 F2 F3 LF RT SD
M0 = [ +  -  +  -  +  -]
R0 = [ +  +  -  +  -  -]

I've confirmed that the damping loops are stable on M0 with these new COILOUTF gains (R0 OSEMs are not centered, so I cannot confirm their functionality, but nothing has changed there.)

Also, as per request, with the open light currents as measured by the test stand setup, the H2 SUS ITMY OSEMINF gains an offsets should be / are:

M0_OFFSETS =
F1 -14764
F2 -14379
F3 -14471
LF -13457
RT -12564
SD -14795
M0_GAINS =
F1 1.016
F2 1.043
F3 1.037
LF 1.115
RT 1.194
SD 1.014

R0_OFFSETS =
F1 -12472
F2 -12619
F3 -13171
LF -13894
RT -12380
SD -13062
R0_GAINS =
F1 1.203
F2 1.189
F3 1.139
LF 1.080
RT 1.212
SD 1.148 

H1 IOO
cheryl.vorvick@LIGO.ORG - posted 23:50, Monday 29 October 2012 (4548)
EOM in IO path is effecting beam shape, and may be misaligned, or have some other issue
NanoScan used to look at the beam about 1m down stream of the EOM. First image is without the EOM, second is with EOM.
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H1 SUS
betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - posted 21:25, Monday 29 October 2012 (4547)
MC3 Left prisms - now ~16 hours of acetone soak time

Well, the MC3 left primary and secondary prisms sat in another acetone bath all day - the secondary (metal) prism finally fell off, but the primary looks to be well bonded to the barrel of the optic still.  Degradation of the glue joint usually occurs at some vulnerability in the boundary of the bond (like where some glue has chipped away or at an irregular area like a bubble or crack which then lets the liquid seep in more efficiently.  We could see this happen on the secondary, but the primary doesn't show any such areas.  We have even used a razor blade to strip away excess glue and look for soft spots in the joint edge.  No luck today.  More soaking tomorrow.  Of course this debond-rebonding project is time critical so I shouldn't expect it to go well.

Thanks Gerardo for all the prism-sitting.

LHO General
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - posted 19:43, Monday 29 October 2012 (4545)
plots of dust counts
Attached are plots of dust counts > .3 microns and > .5 microns in particles per cubic foot.
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H1 SEI
hugo.paris@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:46, Monday 29 October 2012 (4543)
HAM3-ISI - Commissioning Work

Dave Barker and I checked the status of HAM3-ISI's test points this morning. We noticed they were overloaded. Dave restarted H1-DAQ and they came back to normal. It seems like H1-DAQ was not restarted as it should have been after the model changes of last week.

Spectra measured on HAM3-ISI make sense again. I tried most combinations of ISO/blend filters on HAM3-ISI today. I attached a sum-up plot of HAM3-ISI isolation performance in the following configurations:
1- No control
2- Damping only
3- Damping + "old" blend* 250mHz     + "old" ISO level 2
4- Damping + "newer" blend** 250mHz  + "old" ISO level 2       
5- Damping + "newer" blend** 250mHz  + LLO HAM5 ISO level 2

ISO=Isolation filters
*: old blend filters - SVN revision 6036
**: newer blend filters - SVN revision 6187

 
The results are compared to the aLigo requirement curve strored in the Seismic SVN in /Common/MatlabTools/HAM_req_for_dtt.txt
Before plotting this requirement curve, I multiplied its amplitude by 10^9, to turn it into nm. 
 
The configuration: Damping + "newer" blend** 250mHz  + "old" ISO level 2 is currently running on HAM3-ISI.        
 
The spectra for the other configurations tested (level 1 isolation loops performance, and performance of level 2 loops with with blend frequency at 900mHz, 750mHz and 500mHz) are available in DTT files.
 
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H1 AOS
jason.oberling@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:05, Monday 29 October 2012 - last comment - 21:16, Monday 29 October 2012(4544)
BSC1 ITMy Pitch/Yaw, Test Stand
D. Cook, J. Oberling
 
Measured pitch and yaw on the ITMy on the test stand this afternoon after SUS had performed adjustments.  As usual, yaw is reported assuming a top down view.
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betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - 21:16, Monday 29 October 2012 (4546)

Note, prior to this set of measurements, I:

1) yawed the right side of R0 CW in order to alleviate the rubbing that the guys saw (and reported) last Friday. 

2) Then, I moved 100g of mass from the front to the back of the M0 UIM in an effort to correct some pitch that Jason observed.  I then recentered the pitch adjuster bars bringing the pitch error down to the number cited above.

3) Lastly, I yawed the M0 CW to reduce the yaw error to what Jason reports above.

BOSEMs need to be centered and then damping will hopefully work.

LHO VE
kyle.ryan@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:52, Monday 29 October 2012 (4542)
Corner Station instrument air maintenance scheduled for today is postponed until tomorrow (Tues.)
Temporary air compressor intended to be used today needed to be fixed first
H1 AOS
jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - posted 18:31, Friday 26 October 2012 (4541)
H1(2?) SUS ITMY Top Mass is Alive (Again, Again)!
F. Clara, J. Kissel. T. Sadecki

We reconnected and reinstalled the BOSEMs to the TOP stages of what-is-now H1 SUS ITMY (but is still being run on H2 SUS ITMY electronics), gathered and installed new open light current values (as the resistance of the long temporary cables significantly reduced the voltage at the ADC, see table below), and aligned them by-eye laterally, and by and axially by speed dials.

After resurrecting the sensor diagonalization templates 
${SusSVN}/sus/trunk/QUAD/H2/ITMY/SAGM0/Data/
20110803_ITMY_Diagonalize_1p3_Yaw.xml
20110803_ITMY_Diagonalize_2p2_Vert.xml
and finding that the isolation between expected and unexpected degrees of freedom was not-so-hot, we took a few averages of M0 P to P and V to V TFs using
${SusSVN}/sus/trunk/QUAD/H2/ITMY/SAGM0/Data/
2012-02-15_1802_H2SUSITMY_M0_Mono_V_WhiteNoise.xml
2012-02-01_H2SUSITMY_M0_Mono_P_WhiteNoise.xml
(which are sorely out of date) and found both to be crap (really noisy, low amplitude, little-to-no visible resonances). After a few tweaks here and there, we found that the bump stops on the reaction chain were rubbing against the main chain. What's worse, is that we saw the top bump stop rubbing first ("sweet! we'll just tweak up the pitch"), but then noticed the -Y bump stop was also rubbing ("that requires adjusting yaw, that's hard, let's go home instead").

So, indeed, we will leave further alleviation of rubbing for Monday.

Welcome back to QUADs everybody!


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Open Light Current Values %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
BOSEM      Production      Test Stand     % Drop
Name       OLC [cts]       OLC [cts]      [%]
M0 F1      30805           29529          4.14
M0 F2      30164           28758          4.66
M0 F3      30160           28942          4.04
M0 LF      28050           26914          4.05
M0 RT      26205           25128          4.11
M0 SD      31046           29590          4.69

R0 F1      25530           24943          2.3
R0 F2      26272           25238          3.93
R0 F3      27538           26342          4.34
R0 LF      29513           27787          5.85
R0 RT      25210           24760          1.79
R0 SD      27113           26124          3.65


(Note, I gathered the previous OLC values from what was installed in the offset/gain fields; I couldn't find a report of them in the log [though I didn't try that hard]. For M0, I gathered to offsets and gains before I started entering in the new values, hence I trust their accuracy. For R0, I entered in the new offsets before remembering to get the old values, so I had to use the gains [which are entered in with less precision], so that's probably why the % drop varies by ~1% from 4%.)

-- Huh! A ~4% drop. Since V=IR, and nothing else has changed, I guess we know that there's therefore a 4% increase in resistance between the production sensor readout chain and the test stand. No show stopper, just good to know, and annoying to have to redo the normalization.
H1 SEI
eric.allwine@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:05, Friday 26 October 2012 (4539)
BSC2 HEPI Actuators Install
From approximately 9am until 3pm four vertical HEPI actuators were installed in the BSC2 pier housings.  Four matching horizontal actuators were also installed on the Piers.  This was with the use of a crane.  Thanks to Ed and Mick.               
H1 SEI
hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:32, Friday 26 October 2012 (4538)
Test Stand Work Platforms Installed on SE Test Stand
Other than getting the wiring out of the way which wasn't too big a deal, and moving the CPS racks-now not so solidly attached, installation was pretty straight forward.  The bolts tying the upper section of the handrails didn't lineup easily; these holes should be a little more oversized.  A mod to lower the overall height a couple inches would make install safer for the ISI as well as working around the ISI--reduces contact of shoes and ISI.  Additionally, a couple inches lower might allow big Jim to stand upright!

Thanks Apollo-MarkD, Mark2 & Slim.

Couple photos
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