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DSC 2004 Europe - Paris - September 2004 ________________________________________________________________________ Synchronous data collection from diverse hardware Camille Goudeseune, Braden Kowitz Beckman Institute, 405 N Mathews St, Urbana IL 61801 USA Abstract We describe an accurate distributed timestamp service. This open-source C++ package runs on commodity PC’s. With no extra hardware, the service correlates sensor data (head- and eye-trackers, biometrics, captured video, driving simulator data) from multiple PC’s with sub-millisecond accuracy. PC-driven actuators like motion bases and audio/visual/haptic warning systems are also controlled with the same accuracy. This lets us accurately measure driver response time (brake at a stoplight, direct gaze at a hazard, answer a telephone). Hardware vendors often assume that system integration revolves around their own devices. This service synchronizes devices despite such assumptions. It is orders of magnitude more accurate than conventional clock-synchronizing methods in Microsoft Windows. A Linux master clock provides a stable NTP time base. Slave clocks, Linux or Windows, synchronize to the master clock by several mechanisms. Measuring round-trip ping times corrects for network latency. In the slave’s high-resolution clock, drift is predictively compensated for while trapping wraparound and j itter (e.g., from PCI bus contention). Performance degrades gracefully and measurably on heavily loaded networks. Several phase-locked loops, within each slave and between slave and master, guarantee performance.