ICALEPCS2013 - List of Keywords (site)

Paper	Title	Other Keywords	Page
MOCOBAB03	The Laser MegaJoule ICCS Integration Platform	software, controls, interface, hardware	35
	J. Fleury, J.P.A. Arnoul, A. Mugnier CEA, LE BARP cedex, France J.I. Nicoloso CEA/DAM/DIF, Arpajon, France
	The French Atomic Energy Commission(CEA)has just built an integration platform outside the LMJ facility in order to assemble the various components of the Integrated Control Command System(ICCS). The talk gives an overview of this integration platform and the qualification strategy based on the use of equipment simulators, and focuses on several tools that have been developed to integrate each sub-system and qualify the overall behavior of the ICCS. Each delivery kit of a sub-system component(Virtual Machine, WIM, PLC,.) is scanned by antivirus software and stored in the delivery database. A specific tool allows the deployment of the delivery kits on the hardware platform (a copy of the LMJ hardware platform). Then, the TMW(Testing Management Workstation) performs automatic tests by coordinating the equipment simulators behavior and the operator’s behavior. The tests configurations, test scenarios and test results are stored in another database. Test results are analyzed, every dysfunction is stored in an event data base which is used to perform reliability calculation of each component. The qualified software is delivered on the LMJ to perform the commissioning of each bundle.
	Slides MOCOBAB03 [2.025 MB]

MOPPC078	TANGO Steps Toward Industry	TANGO, controls, software, synchrotron	277
	A. Götz, J.M. Chaize ESRF, Grenoble, France A. Delorme Gravit, Grenoble, France
	Funding: Gravit innovation Grenoble France. TANGO has proven its excellent reliability by controlling several huge scientific installations in a 24*7 mode. Even if it has originally been built for particle accelerators and scientific experiments, it can be used to control any equipment from small domestic applications to big industrial installations. In the last years the interest around TANGO has been growing and several industrial partners in Europe propose services for TANGO. The TANGO industrialization project aims to increase the visibility of the system fostering the economic activity around it. It promotes TANGO as an open-source flexible solution for controlling equipment as an alternative to proprietary SCADA systems. To achieve this goal several actions have been started, such as the development of an industrial demonstrator, better packaging, integrating OPC-UA and improving the communication around TANGO. The next step will be the creation of a TANGO software Foundation able to engage itself as a legal and economical partner for industry. This foundation will be funded by industrial partners, scientific institutes and grants. The goal is to foster and nurture the growing economic eco-system around TANGO.
	Poster MOPPC078 [4.179 MB]

MOPPC100	SKA Monitioring and Control Progress Status	controls, operation, monitoring, interface	340
	S. Roy Chaudhuri, S. Natarajan TRDDC, Pune, India D. Barbosa GRIT, Aveiro, Portugal A. Bridger ROE, UTAC, United Kingdom T. Coiffard GTD, Barcelona, Spain Y. Gupta, Y.G. Wadadekar NCRA, Pune, India J.C. Guzman CSIRO ATNF, Epping, Australia V.K. Mohile PSL, Pune, India R. Smareglia INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy L. Van den Heever SKA South Africa, National Research Foundation of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa S. Vrcic DRAO, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada
	The Monitoring and Control system for the SKA radio telescope is now moving from the conceptual design to the system requirements and design phase, with the formation of a consortium geared towards delivering the Telescope Manager (TM) work package. Recent program decisions regarding hosting of the telescope across two sites, Australia and South Africa, have brought in new challenges from the TM design perspective. These include strategy to leverage the individual capabilities of autonomous telescopes, and also integrating the existing precursor telescopes (ASKAP and MeerKat) with heterogenous technologies and approaches into the SKA. A key design goal from the viewpoint of minimizing development and lifecycle costs is to have a uniform architectural approach across the telescopes, and to maximize standardization of software and instrumentation across the systems, despite potential variations in system hardware and procurement arrangements among the participating countries. This paper discusses some of these challenges, and their mitigation approaches that the consortium intends to work upon, along with an update on the current status and progress on the overall TM work.

MOPPC133	Performance Improvement of KSTAR Networks for Long Distance Collaborations	network, experiment, interface	423
	J.S. Park, A.K. Bashir, D. Lee, S. Lee, T.G. Lee, S.W. Yun NFRI, Daejon, Republic of Korea B.S. Cho KISTI, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
	KSTAR (Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research) has completed its 5th campaign. Every year, it produces enormous amount of data that need to be forwarded to international collaborators shot by shot for run-time analysis. Analysis of one shot helps in deciding parameters for next shot. Many shots are conducted in a day, therefore, this communication need to be very efficient. Moreover, amount of KSTAR data and number of international collaborators are increasing every year. In presence of big data and various collaborators exists in all over the world, communicating at run-time will be a challenge. To meet this challenge, we need efficient ways of communications to transfer data. Therefore, in this paper, we will optimize paths among internal and external networks of KSTAR for efficient communication. We will also discuss transmission solutions for environment construction and evaluate performance for long distance collaborations.
	Poster MOPPC133 [1.582 MB]

TUPPC108	Using Web Syndication for Flexible Remote Monitoring	controls, detector, operation, experiment	825
	O. Pinazza INFN-Bologna, Bologna, Italy A. Augustinus, P.M. Bond, P.Ch. Chochula, M. Lechman, P. Rosinský CERN, Geneva, Switzerland A.N. Kurepin RAS/INR, Moscow, Russia
	With the experience gained in the first years of running the ALICE apparatus we have identified the need of collecting and aggregating different data to be displayed to the user in a simplified, personalized and clear way. The data comes from different sources in several formats, can contain data, text, pictures or can simply be a link to an extended content. This paper will describe the idea to design a light and flexible infrastructure, to aggregate information produced in different systems and offer them to the readers. In this model, a reader is presented with the information relevant to him, without being obliged to browse through different systems. The project consists of data production, collection and syndication, and is being developed in parallel with more traditional monitoring interfaces, with the aim of offering the ALICE users an alternative and convenient way to stay updated about their preferred systems even when they are far from the experiment.
	Poster TUPPC108 [1.301 MB]

TUPPC110	Operator Intervention System for Remote Accelerator Diagnostics and Support	controls, network, operation, EPICS	832
	A. Uchiyama Sokendai, Ibaraki, Japan K. Furukawa KEK, Ibaraki, Japan Y. Higurashi RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako, Japan
	In a large experimental physics project such as ITER and LHC, the project has managed by an international collaboration. Similarly, ILC (International Linear Collider) as next generation project will be started by a collaboration of many institutes from three regions. After the collaborative construction, any collaborators except a host country will need to have some methods for remote maintenances by control and monitoring of devices. For example, the method can be provided by connecting to the control system network via WAN from their own countries. On the other hand, the remote operation of an accelerator via WAN has some issues from a practical application standpoint. One of the issues is that the accelerator has both experimental device and radiation generator characteristics. Additionally, after miss operation in the remote control, it will cause breakdown immediately. For this reason, we plan to implement the operator intervening system for remote accelerator diagnostics and support, and then it will solve the issues of difference of between the local control room and other locations. In this paper, we report the system concept, the development status, and the future plan.
	Poster TUPPC110 [7.215 MB]

TUCOCA04	Formal Methodology for Safety-Critical Systems Engineering at CERN	PLC, software, operation, interface	918
	F. Valentini, T. Hakulinen, L. Hammouti, T. Ladzinski, P. Ninin CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	A Safety-Critical system is a system whose failure or malfunctioning may lead to an injury or loss of human life or may have serious environmental consequences. The Safety System Engineering section of CERN is responsible for the conception of systems capable of performing, in an extremely safe way, a predefined set of Instrumented Functions preventing any human presence inside areas where a potential hazardous event may occur. This paper describes the formal approach followed for the engineering of the new Personnel Safety System of the PS accelerator complex at CERN. Starting from applying the generic guidelines of the safety standard IEC-61511, we have defined a novel formal approach particularly useful to express the complete set of Safety Functions in a rigorous and unambiguous way. We present the main advantages offered by this formalism and, in particular, we will show how this has been effective in solving the problem of the Safety Functions testing, leading to a major reduction of time for the test pattern generation.
	Slides TUCOCA04 [2.227 MB]

TUCOCB08	Reimplementing the Bulk Data System with DDS in ALMA ACS	network, operation, CORBA, controls	969
	B. Jeram, G. Chiozzi, R.J. Tobar ESO, Garching bei Muenchen, Germany R. Amestica NRAO, Charlottesville, USA M. Watanabe NAOJ, Tokyo, Japan
	Bulk Data(BD) is a service in the ALMA Common Software to transfer a high amount of astronomical data from many-to-one, and one-to-many computers. Its main application is the Correlator SW (processes raw lags from the Correlator HW into science visibilities). The Correlator retrieves data from antennas on up to 32 computers. Data is forwarded to a master computer and combined to be sent to consumers. The throughput requirement both to/from the master is 64 MBytes/sec, differently distributed based on observing conditions. Requirements for robustness make the application very challenging. The first implementation, based on the CORBA A/V Streaming service, showed weaknesses. We therefore decided to replace it, even if we were approaching start of operations, making provision for careful testing. We have chosen as core technology DDS (Data Distribution Service), being a well supported standard, widespread in similar applications. We have evaluated mainstream implementations, with emphasis on performance, robustness and error handling. We have successfully deployed the new BD, making it easy switching between old and new for testing purposes. We discuss challenges and lessons learned.
	Slides TUCOCB08 [1.582 MB]

THMIB04	Optimizing Blocker Usage on NIF Using Image Analysis and Machine Learning	laser, optics, scattering, target	1079
	L.M. Kegelmeyer, A.D. Conder, L.A. Lane, M.C. Nostrand, J.G. Senecal, P.K. Whitman LLNL, Livermore, California, USA
	Funding: This work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. #LLNL-ABS-633358 To optimize laser performance and minimize operating costs for high energy laser shots it is necessary to locally shadow, or block, flaws from laser light exposure in the beamline optics. Blockers are important for temporarily shadowing a flaw on an optic until the optic can be removed and repaired. To meet this need, a combination of image analysis and machine learning techniques have been developed to accurately define the list of locations where blockers should be applied. The image analysis methods extract and measure evidence of flaw candidates and their correlated downstream hot spots and this information is passed to machine learning algorithms which rank the probability that candidates are flaws that require blocking. Preliminary results indicate this method will increase the percentage of true positives from less than 20% to about 90%, while significantly reducing recall – the total number of candidates brought forward for review.
	Slides THMIB04 [0.243 MB]
	Poster THMIB04 [2.532 MB]

Paper

Title

Other Keywords

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MOCOBAB03

The Laser MegaJoule ICCS Integration Platform

software, controls, interface, hardware

35

J. Fleury, J.P.A. Arnoul, A. Mugnier
CEA, LE BARP cedex, France
J.I. Nicoloso
CEA/DAM/DIF, Arpajon, France

The French Atomic Energy Commission(CEA)has just built an integration platform outside the LMJ facility in order to assemble the various components of the Integrated Control Command System(ICCS). The talk gives an overview of this integration platform and the qualification strategy based on the use of equipment simulators, and focuses on several tools that have been developed to integrate each sub-system and qualify the overall behavior of the ICCS. Each delivery kit of a sub-system component(Virtual Machine, WIM, PLC,.) is scanned by antivirus software and stored in the delivery database. A specific tool allows the deployment of the delivery kits on the hardware platform (a copy of the LMJ hardware platform). Then, the TMW(Testing Management Workstation) performs automatic tests by coordinating the equipment simulators behavior and the operator’s behavior. The tests configurations, test scenarios and test results are stored in another database. Test results are analyzed, every dysfunction is stored in an event data base which is used to perform reliability calculation of each component. The qualified software is delivered on the LMJ to perform the commissioning of each bundle.

Slides MOCOBAB03 [2.025 MB]

MOPPC078

TANGO Steps Toward Industry

TANGO, controls, software, synchrotron

277

A. Götz, J.M. Chaize
ESRF, Grenoble, France
A. Delorme
Gravit, Grenoble, France

Funding: Gravit innovation Grenoble France.
TANGO has proven its excellent reliability by controlling several huge scientific installations in a 24*7 mode. Even if it has originally been built for particle accelerators and scientific experiments, it can be used to control any equipment from small domestic applications to big industrial installations. In the last years the interest around TANGO has been growing and several industrial partners in Europe propose services for TANGO. The TANGO industrialization project aims to increase the visibility of the system fostering the economic activity around it. It promotes TANGO as an open-source flexible solution for controlling equipment as an alternative to proprietary SCADA systems. To achieve this goal several actions have been started, such as the development of an industrial demonstrator, better packaging, integrating OPC-UA and improving the communication around TANGO. The next step will be the creation of a TANGO software Foundation able to engage itself as a legal and economical partner for industry. This foundation will be funded by industrial partners, scientific institutes and grants. The goal is to foster and nurture the growing economic eco-system around TANGO.

Poster MOPPC078 [4.179 MB]

MOPPC100

SKA Monitioring and Control Progress Status

controls, operation, monitoring, interface

340

S. Roy Chaudhuri, S. Natarajan
TRDDC, Pune, India
D. Barbosa
GRIT, Aveiro, Portugal
A. Bridger
ROE, UTAC, United Kingdom
T. Coiffard
GTD, Barcelona, Spain
Y. Gupta, Y.G. Wadadekar
NCRA, Pune, India
J.C. Guzman
CSIRO ATNF, Epping, Australia
V.K. Mohile
PSL, Pune, India
R. Smareglia
INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy
L. Van den Heever
SKA South Africa, National Research Foundation of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
S. Vrcic
DRAO, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada

The Monitoring and Control system for the SKA radio telescope is now moving from the conceptual design to the system requirements and design phase, with the formation of a consortium geared towards delivering the Telescope Manager (TM) work package. Recent program decisions regarding hosting of the telescope across two sites, Australia and South Africa, have brought in new challenges from the TM design perspective. These include strategy to leverage the individual capabilities of autonomous telescopes, and also integrating the existing precursor telescopes (ASKAP and MeerKat) with heterogenous technologies and approaches into the SKA. A key design goal from the viewpoint of minimizing development and lifecycle costs is to have a uniform architectural approach across the telescopes, and to maximize standardization of software and instrumentation across the systems, despite potential variations in system hardware and procurement arrangements among the participating countries. This paper discusses some of these challenges, and their mitigation approaches that the consortium intends to work upon, along with an update on the current status and progress on the overall TM work.

MOPPC133

Performance Improvement of KSTAR Networks for Long Distance Collaborations

network, experiment, interface

423

J.S. Park, A.K. Bashir, D. Lee, S. Lee, T.G. Lee, S.W. Yun
NFRI, Daejon, Republic of Korea
B.S. Cho
KISTI, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

KSTAR (Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research) has completed its 5th campaign. Every year, it produces enormous amount of data that need to be forwarded to international collaborators shot by shot for run-time analysis. Analysis of one shot helps in deciding parameters for next shot. Many shots are conducted in a day, therefore, this communication need to be very efficient. Moreover, amount of KSTAR data and number of international collaborators are increasing every year. In presence of big data and various collaborators exists in all over the world, communicating at run-time will be a challenge. To meet this challenge, we need efficient ways of communications to transfer data. Therefore, in this paper, we will optimize paths among internal and external networks of KSTAR for efficient communication. We will also discuss transmission solutions for environment construction and evaluate performance for long distance collaborations.

Poster MOPPC133 [1.582 MB]

TUPPC108

Using Web Syndication for Flexible Remote Monitoring

controls, detector, operation, experiment

825

O. Pinazza
INFN-Bologna, Bologna, Italy
A. Augustinus, P.M. Bond, P.Ch. Chochula, M. Lechman, P. Rosinský
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
A.N. Kurepin
RAS/INR, Moscow, Russia

With the experience gained in the first years of running the ALICE apparatus we have identified the need of collecting and aggregating different data to be displayed to the user in a simplified, personalized and clear way. The data comes from different sources in several formats, can contain data, text, pictures or can simply be a link to an extended content. This paper will describe the idea to design a light and flexible infrastructure, to aggregate information produced in different systems and offer them to the readers. In this model, a reader is presented with the information relevant to him, without being obliged to browse through different systems. The project consists of data production, collection and syndication, and is being developed in parallel with more traditional monitoring interfaces, with the aim of offering the ALICE users an alternative and convenient way to stay updated about their preferred systems even when they are far from the experiment.

Poster TUPPC108 [1.301 MB]

TUPPC110

Operator Intervention System for Remote Accelerator Diagnostics and Support

controls, network, operation, EPICS

832

A. Uchiyama
Sokendai, Ibaraki, Japan
K. Furukawa
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
Y. Higurashi
RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako, Japan

In a large experimental physics project such as ITER and LHC, the project has managed by an international collaboration. Similarly, ILC (International Linear Collider) as next generation project will be started by a collaboration of many institutes from three regions. After the collaborative construction, any collaborators except a host country will need to have some methods for remote maintenances by control and monitoring of devices. For example, the method can be provided by connecting to the control system network via WAN from their own countries. On the other hand, the remote operation of an accelerator via WAN has some issues from a practical application standpoint. One of the issues is that the accelerator has both experimental device and radiation generator characteristics. Additionally, after miss operation in the remote control, it will cause breakdown immediately. For this reason, we plan to implement the operator intervening system for remote accelerator diagnostics and support, and then it will solve the issues of difference of between the local control room and other locations. In this paper, we report the system concept, the development status, and the future plan.

Poster TUPPC110 [7.215 MB]

TUCOCA04

Formal Methodology for Safety-Critical Systems Engineering at CERN

PLC, software, operation, interface

918

F. Valentini, T. Hakulinen, L. Hammouti, T. Ladzinski, P. Ninin
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

A Safety-Critical system is a system whose failure or malfunctioning may lead to an injury or loss of human life or may have serious environmental consequences. The Safety System Engineering section of CERN is responsible for the conception of systems capable of performing, in an extremely safe way, a predefined set of Instrumented Functions preventing any human presence inside areas where a potential hazardous event may occur. This paper describes the formal approach followed for the engineering of the new Personnel Safety System of the PS accelerator complex at CERN. Starting from applying the generic guidelines of the safety standard IEC-61511, we have defined a novel formal approach particularly useful to express the complete set of Safety Functions in a rigorous and unambiguous way. We present the main advantages offered by this formalism and, in particular, we will show how this has been effective in solving the problem of the Safety Functions testing, leading to a major reduction of time for the test pattern generation.

Slides TUCOCA04 [2.227 MB]

TUCOCB08

Reimplementing the Bulk Data System with DDS in ALMA ACS

network, operation, CORBA, controls

969

B. Jeram, G. Chiozzi, R.J. Tobar
ESO, Garching bei Muenchen, Germany
R. Amestica
NRAO, Charlottesville, USA
M. Watanabe
NAOJ, Tokyo, Japan

Bulk Data(BD) is a service in the ALMA Common Software to transfer a high amount of astronomical data from many-to-one, and one-to-many computers. Its main application is the Correlator SW (processes raw lags from the Correlator HW into science visibilities). The Correlator retrieves data from antennas on up to 32 computers. Data is forwarded to a master computer and combined to be sent to consumers. The throughput requirement both to/from the master is 64 MBytes/sec, differently distributed based on observing conditions. Requirements for robustness make the application very challenging. The first implementation, based on the CORBA A/V Streaming service, showed weaknesses. We therefore decided to replace it, even if we were approaching start of operations, making provision for careful testing. We have chosen as core technology DDS (Data Distribution Service), being a well supported standard, widespread in similar applications. We have evaluated mainstream implementations, with emphasis on performance, robustness and error handling. We have successfully deployed the new BD, making it easy switching between old and new for testing purposes. We discuss challenges and lessons learned.

Slides TUCOCB08 [1.582 MB]

THMIB04

Optimizing Blocker Usage on NIF Using Image Analysis and Machine Learning

laser, optics, scattering, target

1079

L.M. Kegelmeyer, A.D. Conder, L.A. Lane, M.C. Nostrand, J.G. Senecal, P.K. Whitman
LLNL, Livermore, California, USA

Funding: This work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. #LLNL-ABS-633358
To optimize laser performance and minimize operating costs for high energy laser shots it is necessary to locally shadow, or block, flaws from laser light exposure in the beamline optics. Blockers are important for temporarily shadowing a flaw on an optic until the optic can be removed and repaired. To meet this need, a combination of image analysis and machine learning techniques have been developed to accurately define the list of locations where blockers should be applied. The image analysis methods extract and measure evidence of flaw candidates and their correlated downstream hot spots and this information is passed to machine learning algorithms which rank the probability that candidates are flaws that require blocking. Preliminary results indicate this method will increase the percentage of true positives from less than 20% to about 90%, while significantly reducing recall – the total number of candidates brought forward for review.

Slides THMIB04 [0.243 MB]

Poster THMIB04 [2.532 MB]