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===== Ramp =====

This simple client performs a ramp in z-piezo direction.

It connects to the server and sets the operation regime to proportional feedback (typically used in contact mode, difference between value of signal on input and some setpoint value makes piezo to extend or shrink, depending on settings). Then it sets some basic parameters of feedback loop and sets feedback on. After that it runs a ramp (a force-distance curve) and prints it (in C) or shows it (in Python), Finally, it stops the feedback, shrinks the z-piezo and exits.

Used commands and their parameters:

''state: mode: proportional'' to set the mode, which connects inputs, outputs and sets many other parameters as defined in hwserver.ini file on the server

''set: pid_p: 0, pid_i: 0.1, pid_d: 0, pid_setpoint: 0.2'' to set the feedback loop parameters

''set_feedback: feedback: true'' to start the feedback loop, which should make z-piezo to extend and probe to reach the surface if the sample is in reachable distance, setpoint is correct and settings in hwserver.ini match the experimental configuration.
 
''run_ramp: n: 25, quantity: 0, from: 0, to: 1e-7, start_delay: 0, peak_delay: 0, time_up: 1, time_down: 1, restore_feedback: true'' to issue a ramp command, performing 1 second ramp down do distance 100 nm, collecting 25 points, 1 second ramp back, collecting another 25 points. Quantity '0' means z-piezo.

''get_ramp_ndata: n''  to get how many points were already measured (repeated until all 50 values are measured)

''get_ramp_data: from: 0, to: 2500'' to get all the data at once (data could be red also sequentially as they are measured altering the "from" and "to" value).

''set_feedback: feedback: false'' to stop the feedback

''move_to: zreq: 0.0'' to move the z-piezo to zero after the feedback is stopped. 

To explore it further, see the [[https://sourceforge.net/p/gwyscope/code/HEAD/tree/simple_clients_c/|simple client implementations in C]] and [[https://sourceforge.net/p/gwyscope/code/HEAD/tree/simple_clients_python/|in Python]].