 Mon Jun 29 15:57:41 2020, Alex Patton, Daily Update 6/29/20
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Worked with Alex P to look at the different gain patterns for antennas with different separation distances. We found that there wasn't
a clear frequency where they started to agree--looking at the average frequency gain plots we sent on slack, they look very different. We're trying |
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Thu Jun 25 15:22:50 2020, Alex Patton, Daily Update 6/25/20
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Worked with Alex P on figuring out why we keep evolving towards small antennas. We think it's because the initial angle is so
large, and the standard deviation of makes it more difficult to bring the antenna within the confines of the hole by mutating the angle than by mutating |
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Wed Jun 23 16:34:10 2021, Ethan Fahimi, Daily Update 6/23/2021
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Lydon
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Tue Jun 23 14:37:07 2020, Alex Patton, Daily Update 6/23/20
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Worked with Aelx P on running the loop with decreasing grid spacing. I also worked in the XF GUI some more and figured out how to
make 3D gain plots (per Cade's suggestion) and tried comparing different grid sizes for a single antenna with proGrid on. |
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Mon Jun 22 13:52:32 2020, Alex Patton, Daily Update 6/22/20
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Worked with Alex to run XF with smaller grid spacing. We're down to 0.001 cm, but below that we were getting long times on the
XF GUI that made it seem like it was hanging. I also investigated XF from a Pitzer desktop to see how to use the progrid setting. I can get the scripts |
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Fri Jun 19 16:27:53 2020, Alex Machtay, Daily Update 6/19/20
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Ran the loop with the same individuals in each "generation" to test how decreasing
the grid size would affect the effective volume. Using individuals with lengths of 5cm, I startde with a grid spacing of 0.01 cm and kept cutting down |
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Thu Jun 18 14:33:32 2020, Alex Patton, Daily Update 6/18/20
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Alex P and I implemented the changes we discussed with Amy to Detector.cc. We're currently running a test to see how the grid
spacing affects the gains from XF. We started with small antennas using a grid spacing of 0.01 and we're cutting down by factors of 2 each generation |
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Wed Jun 17 17:21:16 2020, Alex Machtay, Daily Update 6/17/20
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Worked more with Alex P on AraSim. We've found the cause of the low effective volumes. The
function GainToHeight in Report.cc uses another function called GetGain_1D_OutZero in Detector.cc. The problem is that for some small individuals, we get |
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Tue Jun 16 16:10:52 2020, Alex M, Daily Update 6/16/20
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Continued working to find the AraSim error. We think we're very close to finding where
the difference between the two individuals (one with nonzero effective volume, one with 0) is arising. We've pinned it down to a series of if statements |
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Mon Jun 15 15:52:45 2020, Alex Patton, Daily Update 6/15/20
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Worked with Alex P on looking for the problem in AraSim. We looked in Report.cc where Amy suggested there was an inequality involving
a variable called "Full_window" being compared to the trigger threshold. We followed this down to another function in Report.cc where Full_window |
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Thu Jun 11 15:14:33 2020, Alex Patton, Daily Update 6/11/20
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Helped Alex P look through AraSim some more. We wanted to keep trying to nail down whether or not the threshold was passed (the files said
no before, but we wanted to try confirming by looking at the actual values). The files were big but from the values we saw none exceeded the threshold |
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Wed Jun 10 15:47:43 2020, Alex Machtay, Daily Update 6/10/20
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I wasn't available for most of the day, but I jumped onto the meeting to help Alex P
continue looking for the problem with the effective volumes. Amy asked us to investigate the phase responses coming out of XF. I posted the plots in the |
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Thu Nov 19 16:42:06 2020, Alex Patton, Daily Update 11/19/20
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I hopped on with Alex M to catch him up with what has been done and changed within AraSim so far. I looked into using pointers to access arrays outside
of their declared scope and it seemed reletively easy to set up. I set up a pointer corresponding to the arrays V_forfft, T_forfft, and vmmhz_filter
and set them at the end of stage one in order to be used in stage two. Also made sure to delete the pointers at the end of stage 2 (Very Important). After |
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Fri Oct 9 17:37:57 2020, Alex Patton, Daily Update 10/9/20
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Alex P, Ryan, and Ben
Got all functions finished and worked on adding them to main. |
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Fri Oct 30 17:30:16 2020, Ethan Fahimi, Daily Update 10/30
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Attempted
to make a new mutation function for the algorithm to try and address the concerns about hitting local maximums from Wednesday. Unfortunately, the |
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Mon Nov 30 16:59:39 2020, Ethan Fahimi, Daily Update 10/30
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Attempted
to make a new mutation function for the algorithm to try and address the concerns about hitting local maximums from Wednesday. Unfortunately, the |
Mon Oct 26 17:59:10 2020, Ethan Fahimi, Daily Update 10/26 
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have the testing loop finished with plotted results now. The program was able to reach optimal results very quickly. It used 100% tournament selection |
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Mon Oct 19 17:02:12 2020, Ethan Fahimi, Daily Update 10/19
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P. and I put the outer radius constraint into the Asymmetric our version of the algorithm. I have also created the pseudo-fitness function to be able to |
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Fri Oct 16 17:32:49 2020, Alex Patton, Daily Update 10/16/20
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Alex P and Ryan
Made new version of our modified GA that is asymetric. We didn't |
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Mon Oct 12 17:34:29 2020, Alex Patton, Daily Update 10/12/20
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Alex P, Ryan, and Ben
Finished up writing the updated GA and got it compilable |