Scripts to manage log files from URZF flight mills (2024)

We built flight mills to estimate flight capacities of insects and developed programs to manage them. During experiments, theses programs build specific data files (called log files). Basically, the log files are CSV-like files with a preamble and a postamble. The dataset includes scripts in Ruby and R languages to extract data from these log files, analyze them and produce usable R data files including summarized values. In conjunction to log files, the scripts are able to gathered local data and commands.

我们搭建了飞行磨（flight mills）以评估昆虫的飞行能力，并开发了配套的管理程序。实验期间，上述程序会生成特定的数据文件（称为日志文件（log files））。日志文件本质为类CSV格式文件，包含前导部分与后附部分。本数据集包含采用Ruby与R语言编写的脚本，可从上述日志文件中提取数据、开展分析，并生成包含汇总统计值的可用R数据文件。配合日志文件使用时，该类脚本还可收集本地数据与执行命令。