MREL Blaster's Ranger II Lt, Operation Manual

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Blaster’s Ranger II Lt Operations Manual - Edition 1.1
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This Mining example is for the purpose of learning ProAnalyst® Introductory Edition . The example file can be found in the Mining_Demo
directory.
This example file was captured at 250 frames per second. The calibration of the video is as shown in the calibration tab with the distance
between the two green markers is 12 meters. This summary is ONLY describing the items directly used for this example. All other
functions within the software, please refer to the manual that came with the software.
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Open ProAnalyst® Introductory Edition . Select File, Open Project…
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Navigate to the directory where the files are stored and select Mining_Demo.mpj then click Open.
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The project file will open into its window with the file called Mining_Demo.
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Right click on the video file and the window below will open.
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Click on === Load All Associated Files for This Video ===
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This will load all of the data files associated with the example. When the file opens, it will have loaded a Multi-Plane Calibration file
(.mcl), Image Processing file (.lut) and a Feature Tracking file (.ftk) as shown below with the directory tree.
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Once the operator clicks OK , the window can be maximized with the video.
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To confirm the frame rate in entered into the software correctly, right click on the video and select Modify Recorded Parameters .
This will allow the user to calibrate the time of the video. The user can also modify in this menu the used shutter speed and the
modification of the zeroth frame.
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With the window maximized, the user will notice along the left edge of the video there are three tabs: Raw , Processed and
Thumbnail .
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The Raw tab is the original video with no modification which will be, in this example, the original coloring.
8.1 About ProAnalyst
®
Introductory Edition
8.2 Example Demonstration File Explanation – Mining Example
ProAnalyst
®
Introductory Edition allows auto-tracking of one feature and/or manually tracking of up to 32 features. Will allow the User to
quickly export to Excel or Matlab for further analysis and graphing. If you need to track more than one point at the same time, please contact
MREL to upgrade to
ProAnalyst
®
Professional Edition . ProAnalyst
®
Professional Edition includes all the analysis features and engines for Auto
Tracking objects in 1-D and 2-D, data reduction and report generation. Optional toolkit Image Stabilization can work with the
ProAnalyst
®
Professional Edition .
Please follow the ProAnalyst
®
Introductory Edition Installation Guide to install ProAnalyst
®
Introductory Edition software on your computer.
The ProAnalyst
®
Introductory Edition Installation Guide is in the box of the ProAnalyst
®
.
Now you can open ProAnalyst
®
Introductory Edition , and find the ProAnalyst® Introductory Edition Reference Guide from the menu Help ,
or the User can follow the instructions in the Getting Started Guide and User Guide to do the video analysis.