| Name |
Update for Today |
Plans for tomorrow |
| Alex M |
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 (until we see that the gains stop changing, then we'll do something of a binary search between the last two grid sizes to search for the largest reasonable size).
I also played around with the XF scripting more. My goal is to try to be able to edit the scripts we use to do help us check our results, like save images and load models for the antennas. I can currently run our macro script in XF by loading it in with 1 individual (using a generationDNA.csv file I moved to my user space). I can view and play with the model and it saves an image of it when I run the script (though the image doesn't give much detail). Hopefully this will lead to better understanding XF and being able to check our work and use the progrid option.
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I'll continue with the grid space test tomorrow morning and try to play with XF a bit, but I haven't gotten to address many of Amy's comments on the paper from last week so I'll probably prioritize that while the loop is running the AraSim jobs. |
| Alex P |
After asking about the change to replacing negative gains with 0 in the lower frequencies, we implemented that and ran a few individuals through that. We started a normal large antenna run with that change but stopped in order to test the affect of grid spacing on small antennas. We ran a .01 grid spacing and then .005 grid spacing on the same individuals and will continue so on until we see no change in the results. Specifically checking the affects at the 300 MHz frequency but also overall results. |
If this works we will find the proper grid spacing for an antenna's size and the next step will be to implement a feature to properly scale that with the antennas. If we still encounter the smaller antennas giving an abnormally high vEffective we will probably have to continue looking into what could be causing that. I won't be online most of tomorrow, I might check in at a few points but Alex M will handle running the tests instead. |
| Eliot |
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| Leo |
Did a run with 5 individ and 5 generations. It successful ran through the loop 5 times, but didn't seem to evolve. In particular, "GenerationDNA" wasn't changing throughout the 5 generations. |
Tomorrow, we plan to investigate where this error is coming from within the loop. As of now, we aren't sure whether this is part of the loop or GA. Also we are getting an error message about the file "AraOut_ActualBicone" but doesn't seem to stop the loop, so we want to check in about this as well. |
| Evelyn |
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| Ryan |
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