MAHOS: Measurement Automation Handling and Orchestration System.

This package currently includes the following.

• Base system for distributed measurement automation.
• Implementations of microscopy / optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) system for solid-state color center research, based on above.

Documentation is browsable here.

You can also browse the documentation locally by make browse or opening docs directory with a web browser.

Read the Installation guide.

In short, we recommend editable installation with cloned repository because this library is under development:

1. Clone this repo somewhere.
2. Install the mahos package: pip install -e . or pip install -e .[inst] (the latter installs optional packages for instrument drivers).

To use the mahos-based system, you have to write a toml configuration file first. With your config, use the command line interface to start the nodes and interact with them.

• The tutorial and corresponding examples are provided to get used to these concepts.
• Realistic examples are provided for confocal microscope / ODMR system for color centers.
• There is an example config for the unit test too. Here you can observe main built-in measurement logics and GUIs with mock instruments.

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It would be much appreciated you would cite this paper when you publish your research works based on MAHOS. The BibTeX snippet can be copied below.

@article{Tahara2023, doi = {10.21105/joss.05938}, url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.05938}, year = {2023}, publisher = {The Open Journal}, volume = {8}, number = {91}, pages = {5938}, author = {Kosuke Tahara}, title = {MAHOS: Measurement Automation Handling and Orchestration System}, journal = {Journal of Open Source Software} }

The mahos project is licensed under the 3-Clause BSD License.

The GUI theme is taken from BreezeStyleSheets project, which is licensed under the MIT license: Copyright 2013-2014 Colin Duquesnoy and 2015-2016 Alex Huszagh.

A file includes a function from the pyqtgraph project, which is licensed under the MIT license: Copyright 2012 Luke Campagnola, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Please check out Contribution Guidelines.