Exploring MDSplus data-acquisition software and custom devices
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Author(s)
Santoro, Fernando
Stillerman, Joshua
Lane Walsh, Stephen
Fredian, Thomas
Date Issued
January 2020
Journal
Fusion Engineering and Design
Publisher
Elsevier
Abstract
MDSplus is a software tool designed for data acquisition, storage, and analysis of complex scientific experiments. Over the years, MDSplus has primarily been used for data management for fusion experiments. This paper demonstrates that MDSplus can be used for a much wider variety of systems and experiments. We present a step-by-step tutorial describing how to create a simple experiment, manage the data, and analyze it using MDSplus and Python. To this end, a custom example device was developed to be used as the data source. This device was built on an opensource electronic hardware platform, and it consists of a microcontroller and two sensors. We read data from these sensors, store it in MDSplus, and use JupyterLab to visualize and process it. This project and code demo are available on the GitHub site at this URL: https://github.com/santorofer/MDSplusAndCustomeDevices
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Submitted for publication in Fusion Engineering and Design
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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DOI of Published Version
doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2020.111534
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2020.111534
