Automated Control and Robotics on 1230

• Options for Automated Control
  • SerialEM -- already installed, but does not fully work because of emulator issues, limited scriptability
  • AutoEM -- software written for Digital Micrograph. Will need to be rewritten for JEOL. Currently do not have DM script control of microscope.
  • Leginon -- software written for Tecnai. pyScope module will need to be rewritten for J1230.
  • home - written software

Microscope Communication with PC

• Currently connected through both COM1 (serial) and ethernet
• Digital Micrograph currently using COM1
• Have TemServer20xx.exe emulator software, which allows emulation of TEMCON interface (J2100/J3200)
• Settings required for TemServer20xx are in TemExtReg.exe program, as follows (note: program does not need to be run)
  
• Settings in TemServer 20xx (visible when viewing Properties) are :
  

Digital Micrograph communication with microscope

• Digital Micrograph communicates with J1230 through serial port by default
• Setup is as follows:
  
• When emulator is running, can optionally use JEOL COM as microscope rather than JEOL 12n0
  
• In either option, there is a test panel for testing Digital Micrograph's ability to control microscope
  

• Testing of commands in Digital Micrograph

Leginon

Installation

Pre-Requisites

• Downloaded Leginon-prereq-wininstall.zip from James Pulokas
  • install Python 2.52
  • install pywin32 (may need MFC71.dll on some PC's; was already installed on 1230)
  • install wxpython
  • install MySQL python client
  • install PIL, the Python Imaging Library
  • install numpy 1.04
  • install scipy 0.60
    

Leginon Installation

• Will be using version 1.5 of Leginon
• TO BE DONE:
  • Install NumExtension 1.1.0
  • Install pyscope 1.0.8 (THIS WILL NEED TO BE REPROGRAMMED FOR 1230)
  • Install sinedon -r39
  • Install pyami - r69
  • Install Imageviewer
  • Install Leginon - r5457
  • Edit default.cfg to configure Leginon to communicate with proper database
  • Edit sinedon.cfg configure Leginon to communicate with proper database
  • Set up database and web server on outside linux box

Serialport in python

• Loaded serialpy library
• works to control serial port
• Currently need to run it using IDLE
• To be done
  • Test all commands in jeol_1230_computer control manual
  • Write a simple comnmand-line interface to control scope
  • implement commands in pyscope leginon module
  • Testing of commands using serial port control

• Set ALLOWTOPICVIEW =

-- BillRice - 19 Oct 2007

* jeol_1230_computer.pdf: serial port command instructions for jeol 1230