[PATCH] Visualisation of individual oxygen sensor data for CCR dives

Jef Driesen jef at libdivecomputer.org
Fri Apr 14 01:26:01 PDT 2017


On 2017-04-13 17:04, Jef Driesen wrote:
> I don't entirely agree with that. If you check the available memory
> dumps, 5 of them contain CCR dives. I analyzed all of them, and this
> is what I found:
> 
>  * petrel.marklee.bin
> 
> The three mV values in the samples are always zero. But since all
> three O2 sensors have their calibrated bit in the header disabled, no
> ppO2 samples are reported. So that looks good.
> 
> Sensor 0: 0 0 2100 -1
> Sensor 1: 0 0 2100 -1
> Sensor 2: 0 0 2100 -1
> 
> (These numbers are respectively the voted bit, the calibrated bit, the
> calibration value and the ADC offset.)
> 
>  * petrel.larrybainbridge.bin
> 
> The three mV values in the samples are always zero. But the O2 sensors
> are calibrated, and thus we report ppO2 samples with all zeros. That's
> not good. This might indicate that we need to take into account the
> voted bit too, because that is disabled for all dives:
> 
> Sensor 0: 0 1 2045 44
> Sensor 1: 0 1 2025 -9
> Sensor 2: 0 1 2045 51
> 
> petrel.rainer.bin
> 
> Here we have non-zero mV values in the samples. The O2 sensors are
> calibrated. In most samples, manually averaging the resulting ppO2
> gives results that are very close to the average ppO2 value reported
> by the device. In roughly 90% of the samples where the result is
> different, the difference in average ppO2 is only 0.01. That might be
> some rounding error. In only a few percent of the cases there is a
> significant difference, and that are probably cases where a value is
> voted out. So everything looks reasonable here.
> 
> Sensor 0: X 1 YYYY 0   (with YYYY ranging from 1671 to 2112)
> Sensor 1: X 1 YYYY 39  (with YYYY ranging from 1810 to 2326)
> Sensor 2: 1 1 YYYY 2   (with YYYY ranging from 1621 to 2108)
> 
> Note that sometimes sensor 0 or 1 have the voted bit disabled in the
> header! So if we would take that bit into account (see above), then I
> think we're disabling a sensor when it shouldn't. So I'm not really
> sure what to do with the voted bit.
> 
>  * predator.janschubert.bin
> 
> All sensors are calibrated and voted in:
> 
> Sensor 0: 1 1 YYYY -16   (with YYYY ranging from 859 to 895)
> Sensor 1: 1 1 YYYY -24   (with YYYY ranging from 812 to 843)
> Sensor 2: 1 1 YYYY -11   (with YYYY ranging from 827 to 856)
> 
> Note that compared to the petrel data, the calibration values are now
> in an entirely different range. So the resulting ppO2 are way off.
> That's what you tried to address in the second revision of you patch
> with this code:
> 
> if (calibration < 1000)
>     calibration += 1024;
> 
> With this patch, the results look good again. When comparing the
> calculated with the stored average ppO2, the largest difference is
> only 0.021.
> 
>  * predator.marklee.bin
> 
> All sensors are calibrated and voted in:
> 
> Sensor 0: 1 1 YYYY -41   (with YYYY ranging from  885 to 1069)
> Sensor 1: 1 1 YYYY -39   (with YYYY ranging from  989 to 1016)
> Sensor 2: 1 1 YYYY -5    (with YYYY ranging from 1179 to 1376)
> 
> Very similar, except that some calibration values are above and other
> below 1000. And that breaks the above patch. If we always add the
> value 1024 (or just 1000) unconditionally, things are getting better.
> I guess that's an indication that this is something specific for the
> predator, but not the petrel. But it's not perfect yet. The difference
> in average ppO2 is now between 0.043 and 0.212. This is much larger as
> before, and if you look at the values, it's not caused by an outlier
> that is getting voted out.
> 
> A random example:
> 
> Sensor 0: 0.639 = 33 mV * (885 + 1024) / 100000.0
> Sensor 1: 0.583 = 29 mV * (989 + 1024) / 100000.0
> Sensor 2: 0.572 = 26 mv * (1179 + 1024) / 100000.0
> 
> But the average ppO2 reported by the device is 0.65. That's more than
> our highest value, so it can't be due to sensor voting. Maybe the
> calibration is done different for the predator?

I tried a different approach yesterday. Instead of adding 1024 to the 
calibration value, I simply used the stored value as is, and calculated 
the average ppO2 over all three sensors. Then I plotted all those values 
against the average ppO2 reported by the device. And guess what, there 
is a nice linear relationship between the two! Doing a linear regression 
on the data gives a scaling factor of 2.2.

For the example above this gives:

Sensor 0: 0.642 = 33 mV * 885 / 100000.0 * 2.2
Sensor 1: 0.630 = 29 mV * 989 / 100000.0 * 2.2
Sensor 2: 0.674 = 26 mv * 1179 / 100000.0 * 2.2

As you can see, the average ppO2 (0.648) is now very close to the 
average ppO2 reported by the device (0.65). This seems to be true for 
all samples. The largest difference is now 0.018.

The next question is of course what's the source of this factor 2.2? And 
is correct for all Predators?

Jef


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