ICALEPCS2013 - List of Keywords (Windows)

Paper	Title	Other Keywords	Page
MOPPC024	An Event Driven Communication Protocol for Process Control: Performance Evaluation and Redundant Capabilities	PLC, controls, status, framework	111
	J.O. Ortola Vidal, E.B. Blanco Vinuela, M. Boccioli, T.N. Nunes da Rocha CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The CERN Unified Industrial Control System framework (UNICOS) with its Continuous Control Package (UNICOS CPC) is the CERN standard solution for the design and implementation of continuous industrial process control applications. The in-house designed communication mechanism, based on the Time Stamp Push Protocol (TSPP) provides event driven high performance data communication between the control and supervision layers of a UNICOS CPC application. In its recent implementation of full redundant capabilities for both control and supervision layers, the TSPP protocol has reached maturity. This paper presents the design of the redundancy, the architecture, the current implementation as well as a comprehensive evaluation of its performance for SIEMENS PLCs in different test scenarios.
	Poster MOPPC024 [7.161 MB]

MOPPC129	MADOCA II Interface for LabVIEW	LabView, controls, interface, framework	410
	Y. Furukawa, T. Fujita, M. Ishii, T. Matsumoto JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken, Japan
	LabVIEW is widely used for experimental station control in SPring-8. LabVIEW is also partially used for accelerator control, while most software of the SPring-8 accelerator and beamline control are built on MADOCA control framework. As synchrotron radiation experiments advances, there is requirement of complex data exchange between MADOCA and LabVIEW control systems which was not realized. We have developed next generation MADOCA called MADOCA II, as reported in this ICALEPCS (T.Matsumoto et.al.). We ported MADOCA II framework to Windows and we developed MADOCA II interface for LabVIEW. Using the interface, variable length data can be exchanged between MADOCA and LabVIEW based softwares. As a first application, we developed a readout system for an electron beam position monitor with NI's PCI-5922 digitizers. A client software sends a message to a remote LabVIEW based digitizer readout software via the MADOCA II midlleware and the readout system sends back waveform data to the client. We plan to apply the interface various accelerator and synchrotron radiation experiment controls.

TUPPC100	Recent Changes to Beamline Software at the Canadian Light Source	software, experiment, controls, EPICS	813
	G. Wright, D. Beauregard, R. Berg, G. Black, D.K. Chevrier, R. Igarashi, E. D. Matias, C.D. Miller CLS, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
	The Canadian Light Source has ongoing work to improve the user interfaces at the beamlines. Much of the direction has made use of Qt and EPICS, using both C++ and Python in providing applications. Continuing work on the underlying data acquisition and visualization tools provides a commonality for both development and operation, and provisions for extending tools allow flexibility in types of experiments being run.
	Poster TUPPC100 [1.864 MB]

TUPPC121	caQtDM, an EPICS Display Manager Based on Qt	controls, EPICS, interface, data-acquisition	864
	A.C. Mezger PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
	At the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) the display manager MEDM was used until recently for the synoptic displays at all our facilities, not only for EPICS but also for another, in-house built control system ACS. However MEDM is based on MOTIF and Xt/X11, systems/libraries that are starting to age. Moreover MEDM is difficult to extend with new entities. Therefore a new tool has been developed based on Qt. This reproduces the functionality of MEDM and is now in use at several facilities. As Qt is supported on several platforms this tool will also format using the parser tool adl2ui. These were then edited further with the Qt-Designer and displayed with the new Qt-Manager caQtDM. The integration of new entities into the Qt designer and therefore into the Qt based applications is very easy, so that the system can easily be enhanced with new widgets. New features needed for our facility were implemented. The caQtDM application uses a C++ class to perform the data acquisition and display; this class can also be integrated into other applications.
	Slides TUPPC121 [1.024 MB]

TUCOCB01	Next-Generation MADOCA for The SPring-8 Control Framework	controls, framework, interface, software	944
	T. Matsumoto, Y. Furukawa, M. Ishii JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken, Japan
	MADOCA control framework* was developed for SPring-8 accelerator control and has been utilized in several facilities since 1997. As a result of increasing demands in controls, now we need to treat various data including image data in beam profile monitoring, and also need to control specific devices which can be only managed by Windows drivers. To fulfill such requirements, next-generation MADOCA (MADOCA II) was developed this time. MADOCA II is also based on message oriented control architecture, but the core part of the messaging is completely rewritten with ZeroMQ socket library. Main features of MADOCA II are as follows: 1) Variable length data such as image data can be transferred with a message. 2) The control system can run on Windows as well as other platforms such as Linux and Solaris. 3) Concurrent processing of multiple messages can be performed for fast control. In this paper, we report on the new control framework especially from messaging aspects. We also report the status on the replacement of the control system with MADOCA II. Partial control system of SPring-8 was already replaced with MADOCA II last summer and has been stably operated. *R.Tanaka et al., “Control System of the SPring-8 Storage Ring”, Proc. of ICALEPCS’95, Chicago, USA, (1995)
	Slides TUCOCB01 [2.157 MB]

THPPC023	Integration of Windows Binaries in the UNIX-based RHIC Control System Environment	controls, software, interface, Linux	1135
	P. Kankiya, L.T. Hoff, J.P. Jamilkowski BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
	Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy. Since its inception, the RHIC control system has been built-up on UNIX or LINUX and implemented primarily in C++. Sometimes equipment vendors include software packages developed in the Microsoft Windows operating system. This leads to a need to integrate these packaged executables into existing data logging, display, and alarms systems. This paper will describe an approach to incorporate such non-UNIX binaries seamlessly into the RHIC control system with minimal changes to the existing code base, allowing for compilation on standard LINUX workstations through the use of a virtual machine. The implementation resulted in the successful use of a windows dynamic linked library (DLL) to control equipment remotely while running a synoptic display interface on a LINUX machine.
	Poster THPPC023 [1.391 MB]

THPPC064	The HiSPARC Control System	detector, controls, software, database	1220
	R.G.K. Hart, D.B.R.A. Fokkema, A.P.L.S. de Laat, B. van Eijk NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
	Funding: Nikhef The purpose of the HiSPARC project is twofold. First the physics goal: detection of high-energy cosmic rays. Secondly, offer an educational program in which high school students participate by building their detection station and analysing their data. Around 70 high schools, spread over the Netherlands, are participating. Data are centrally stored at Nikhef in Amsterdam. The detectors, located on the roof of the high-schools, are connected by means of a USB interface to a Windows PC, which itself is connected to the high school's network and further on to the public internet. Each station is equipped with GPS providing exact location and accurate timing. This paper covers the setup, building and usage of the station software. It contains a LabVIEW run-time engine, services for remote control and monitoring, a series of Python scripts and a local buffer. An important task of the station software is to control the dataflow, event building and submission to the central database. Furthermore, several global aspects are described, like the source repository, the station software installer and organization. Windows, USB, FTDI, LabVIEW, VPN, VNC, Python, Nagios, NSIS, Django

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MOPPC024

An Event Driven Communication Protocol for Process Control: Performance Evaluation and Redundant Capabilities

PLC, controls, status, framework

111

J.O. Ortola Vidal, E.B. Blanco Vinuela, M. Boccioli, T.N. Nunes da Rocha
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The CERN Unified Industrial Control System framework (UNICOS) with its Continuous Control Package (UNICOS CPC) is the CERN standard solution for the design and implementation of continuous industrial process control applications. The in-house designed communication mechanism, based on the Time Stamp Push Protocol (TSPP) provides event driven high performance data communication between the control and supervision layers of a UNICOS CPC application. In its recent implementation of full redundant capabilities for both control and supervision layers, the TSPP protocol has reached maturity. This paper presents the design of the redundancy, the architecture, the current implementation as well as a comprehensive evaluation of its performance for SIEMENS PLCs in different test scenarios.

Poster MOPPC024 [7.161 MB]

MOPPC129

MADOCA II Interface for LabVIEW

LabView, controls, interface, framework

410

Y. Furukawa, T. Fujita, M. Ishii, T. Matsumoto
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken, Japan

LabVIEW is widely used for experimental station control in SPring-8. LabVIEW is also partially used for accelerator control, while most software of the SPring-8 accelerator and beamline control are built on MADOCA control framework. As synchrotron radiation experiments advances, there is requirement of complex data exchange between MADOCA and LabVIEW control systems which was not realized. We have developed next generation MADOCA called MADOCA II, as reported in this ICALEPCS (T.Matsumoto et.al.). We ported MADOCA II framework to Windows and we developed MADOCA II interface for LabVIEW. Using the interface, variable length data can be exchanged between MADOCA and LabVIEW based softwares. As a first application, we developed a readout system for an electron beam position monitor with NI's PCI-5922 digitizers. A client software sends a message to a remote LabVIEW based digitizer readout software via the MADOCA II midlleware and the readout system sends back waveform data to the client. We plan to apply the interface various accelerator and synchrotron radiation experiment controls.

TUPPC100

Recent Changes to Beamline Software at the Canadian Light Source

software, experiment, controls, EPICS

813

G. Wright, D. Beauregard, R. Berg, G. Black, D.K. Chevrier, R. Igarashi, E. D. Matias, C.D. Miller
CLS, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

The Canadian Light Source has ongoing work to improve the user interfaces at the beamlines. Much of the direction has made use of Qt and EPICS, using both C++ and Python in providing applications. Continuing work on the underlying data acquisition and visualization tools provides a commonality for both development and operation, and provisions for extending tools allow flexibility in types of experiments being run.

Poster TUPPC100 [1.864 MB]

TUPPC121

caQtDM, an EPICS Display Manager Based on Qt

controls, EPICS, interface, data-acquisition

864

A.C. Mezger
PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland

At the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) the display manager MEDM was used until recently for the synoptic displays at all our facilities, not only for EPICS but also for another, in-house built control system ACS. However MEDM is based on MOTIF and Xt/X11, systems/libraries that are starting to age. Moreover MEDM is difficult to extend with new entities. Therefore a new tool has been developed based on Qt. This reproduces the functionality of MEDM and is now in use at several facilities. As Qt is supported on several platforms this tool will also format using the parser tool adl2ui. These were then edited further with the Qt-Designer and displayed with the new Qt-Manager caQtDM. The integration of new entities into the Qt designer and therefore into the Qt based applications is very easy, so that the system can easily be enhanced with new widgets. New features needed for our facility were implemented. The caQtDM application uses a C++ class to perform the data acquisition and display; this class can also be integrated into other applications.

Slides TUPPC121 [1.024 MB]

TUCOCB01

Next-Generation MADOCA for The SPring-8 Control Framework

controls, framework, interface, software

944

T. Matsumoto, Y. Furukawa, M. Ishii
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken, Japan

MADOCA control framework* was developed for SPring-8 accelerator control and has been utilized in several facilities since 1997. As a result of increasing demands in controls, now we need to treat various data including image data in beam profile monitoring, and also need to control specific devices which can be only managed by Windows drivers. To fulfill such requirements, next-generation MADOCA (MADOCA II) was developed this time. MADOCA II is also based on message oriented control architecture, but the core part of the messaging is completely rewritten with ZeroMQ socket library. Main features of MADOCA II are as follows: 1) Variable length data such as image data can be transferred with a message. 2) The control system can run on Windows as well as other platforms such as Linux and Solaris. 3) Concurrent processing of multiple messages can be performed for fast control. In this paper, we report on the new control framework especially from messaging aspects. We also report the status on the replacement of the control system with MADOCA II. Partial control system of SPring-8 was already replaced with MADOCA II last summer and has been stably operated.
*R.Tanaka et al., “Control System of the SPring-8 Storage Ring”, Proc. of ICALEPCS’95, Chicago, USA, (1995)

Slides TUCOCB01 [2.157 MB]

THPPC023

Integration of Windows Binaries in the UNIX-based RHIC Control System Environment

controls, software, interface, Linux

1135

P. Kankiya, L.T. Hoff, J.P. Jamilkowski
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA

Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
Since its inception, the RHIC control system has been built-up on UNIX or LINUX and implemented primarily in C++. Sometimes equipment vendors include software packages developed in the Microsoft Windows operating system. This leads to a need to integrate these packaged executables into existing data logging, display, and alarms systems. This paper will describe an approach to incorporate such non-UNIX binaries seamlessly into the RHIC control system with minimal changes to the existing code base, allowing for compilation on standard LINUX workstations through the use of a virtual machine. The implementation resulted in the successful use of a windows dynamic linked library (DLL) to control equipment remotely while running a synoptic display interface on a LINUX machine.

Poster THPPC023 [1.391 MB]

THPPC064

The HiSPARC Control System

detector, controls, software, database

1220

R.G.K. Hart, D.B.R.A. Fokkema, A.P.L.S. de Laat, B. van Eijk
NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Funding: Nikhef
The purpose of the HiSPARC project is twofold. First the physics goal: detection of high-energy cosmic rays. Secondly, offer an educational program in which high school students participate by building their detection station and analysing their data. Around 70 high schools, spread over the Netherlands, are participating. Data are centrally stored at Nikhef in Amsterdam. The detectors, located on the roof of the high-schools, are connected by means of a USB interface to a Windows PC, which itself is connected to the high school's network and further on to the public internet. Each station is equipped with GPS providing exact location and accurate timing. This paper covers the setup, building and usage of the station software. It contains a LabVIEW run-time engine, services for remote control and monitoring, a series of Python scripts and a local buffer. An important task of the station software is to control the dataflow, event building and submission to the central database. Furthermore, several global aspects are described, like the source repository, the station software installer and organization.
Windows, USB, FTDI, LabVIEW, VPN, VNC, Python, Nagios, NSIS, Django