Primary Mirror Cell

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The Primary Mirror Cell subsystem is responsible for the control of the primary mirror position and figure. It sends high-level commands to a VxWorks based real-time control program which provides all hardware related control activities. These include control of all air pressures, calculating and sending forces to the mirror support actuators based on six PID servo loops for forces and moments, calculating and sending positions to the hardpoints, monitoring all forces, positions, and temperatures, and performing mirror support force safety checks. An operator interface (GUI) is provided that allows the operator complete control over all facets of the VxWorks program, as well as all the higher-level operations.

The mirror will not raise if two actuators are disabled next to each other, or if more than 5 actuators are bad/disabled. To determine where an actuator is in relation to another, consult the map. PMC can auto-disable bad actuators.

• 722s001e-PMCActuatorMap.pdf: map of actuators with air loop colour coded
• Pneumatic mirror cell actuator:
  

PMC documentation includes

• VxWorks Software wiki page
• T481s00041 PMC Software Reference Manual
• T481s00042 PMC Software user's Manual
• T481s00043 PMC Actuator Control Board Firmware Reference Manual
• T481s00044 PMC Hardpoint Control Board Firmware Reference Manual

Bump Testing

Bump test can only be executed if the mirror is down. The entire cell can be bump tested, or a single air loop, or a single actuator. When a single actuator is being replaced, it's better to bump only that actuator.

There's a long history of how and why bump tests were done. Earlier telescopes always did a bump test of the entire cell on every raise. That takes a long time, and our actuators are way more reliable than the earlier designs. So a long time ago the code was modified to stop the mandatory bump test every raise. However, the test at raise time that checks whether any actuators failed their last bump test was not removed. So it's necessary to not have any outstanding failed bump results when trying to raise the mirror.

Another problem is some of the status messages do not appear as events, but show up in the single line message box on the main GUI form (like "invalid disabled actuator set"). All things some enthusiastic person could fix.

The only way to clear old bump results is to restart the VxWorks program or reboot the computer (open telnet to VxWorks (from PMCGUI), issue "reboot" command).

VxWorks

The PMC VxWorks crates boot using FTP from web.mountain from /lbt/vxworks. Look on webserver settings/SELinux settings if it cannot boot.

Task list captured 20190821:

Trying 192.168.18.100...
Connected to 192.168.18.100.
Escape character is '^]'.

-> i

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value = 0 = 0x0
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