R-testbench: a Journey in Open Source Programming for Remote Instrumentation with Python
Nowadays, instrumentation involves remote control and test benches automation, because of the required accuracy or to guarantee the safety of the operators. In parallel, open source has known a fast expansion, and has helped scientific communities in industry and research to build strong collaborati...
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| author | Alexandre QUENON Evelyne DAUBIE Véronique MOEYAERT Fortunato DUALIBE |
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| description | Nowadays, instrumentation involves remote control and test benches automation, because of the required accuracy or to guarantee the safety of the operators. In parallel, open source has known a fast expansion, and has helped scientific communities in industry and research to build strong collaborations to design effective and user-friendly software tools. This paper presents R-testbench, an open source Python library that offers high-level programming capabilities for instrument remote control and test bench automation. Comparatively to well-known off-the-shelf software solutions, it has been designed to be open source, reliable, adaptable and user-friendly. It relies on the Virtual Instrumentation Software Architecture (VISA) standard, and enables high-level features, including automatic instrument recognition, thanks to the object-oriented paradigm. It works with PyVISA, a Python front end that calls the VISA libraries, and uses the popular NumPy and pandas packages to offer an optimized data management that is efficient regarding the execution time and the memory use. The proposed library has been validated thanks to continuous integration, performance characterization, and alpha tests in the frame of experiments with nuclear material. It has also been released publicly on the GitHub platform, under the Open Software License 3.0, to be shared with and reviewed by the community. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-39c499b95349456ebe918ff4e9ec8cd42023-08-03T16:10:52ZengIFSA Publishing, S.L.Sensors & Transducers2306-85151726-54792020-10-0124569098R-testbench: a Journey in Open Source Programming for Remote Instrumentation with PythonAlexandre QUENON0Evelyne DAUBIE1Véronique MOEYAERT2Fortunato DUALIBE3University of Mons, Electrical Engineering DepartmentUniversity of Mons, Physics DepartmentUniversity of Mons, Electrical Engineering DepartmentUniversity of Mons, Electrical Engineering DepartmentNowadays, instrumentation involves remote control and test benches automation, because of the required accuracy or to guarantee the safety of the operators. In parallel, open source has known a fast expansion, and has helped scientific communities in industry and research to build strong collaborations to design effective and user-friendly software tools. This paper presents R-testbench, an open source Python library that offers high-level programming capabilities for instrument remote control and test bench automation. Comparatively to well-known off-the-shelf software solutions, it has been designed to be open source, reliable, adaptable and user-friendly. It relies on the Virtual Instrumentation Software Architecture (VISA) standard, and enables high-level features, including automatic instrument recognition, thanks to the object-oriented paradigm. It works with PyVISA, a Python front end that calls the VISA libraries, and uses the popular NumPy and pandas packages to offer an optimized data management that is efficient regarding the execution time and the memory use. The proposed library has been validated thanks to continuous integration, performance characterization, and alpha tests in the frame of experiments with nuclear material. It has also been released publicly on the GitHub platform, under the Open Software License 3.0, to be shared with and reviewed by the community.https://sensorsportal.com/HTML/DIGEST/october_2020/Vol_245/P_3178.pdfautomationinstrumentationnumpypandaspythonremote controlsoftwaretest benchvisa |
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| title | R-testbench: a Journey in Open Source Programming for Remote Instrumentation with Python |
| title_full | R-testbench: a Journey in Open Source Programming for Remote Instrumentation with Python |
| title_fullStr | R-testbench: a Journey in Open Source Programming for Remote Instrumentation with Python |
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| title_short | R-testbench: a Journey in Open Source Programming for Remote Instrumentation with Python |
| title_sort | r testbench a journey in open source programming for remote instrumentation with python |
| topic | automation instrumentation numpy pandas python remote control software test bench visa |
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