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MOA3O01 SKA Telescope Manager Project Status Report 1
 
  • L.R. Brederode
    SKA South Africa, National Research Foundation of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
  • A. Marassi
    INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy
  • S. Riggi
    INAF-OACT, Catania, Italy
  
  Funding: SKA South Africa National Research Foundation of South Africa Department of Science and Technology 3rd Floor, The Park, Park Road Pinelands Cape Town South Africa 7405.
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the world's largest radio telescope once it is complete and will use hundreds of thousands of receivers, spanning Africa and Australia to survey the sky in unprecedented detail. The SKA will be ground breaking in many respects such as image resolution, sensitivity, survey speed, data processing and size to name a few. The SKA Telescope Manager Consortium is currently designing the SKA Phase 1 (SKA1) Telescope Manager Element that will orchestrate the SKA Observatory and associated telescopes. In this paper, we report on the current status of the SKA1 Telescope Manager pre-construction project, the development process and its high-level architecture. 		 
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MOA3O02 The Large Scale European XFEL Control System: Overview and Status of the Commissioning 5
 
  • R. Bacher, A. Aghababyan, P.K. Bartkiewicz, T. Boeckmann, B. Bruns, M.R. Clausen, T. Delfs, P. Duval, L. Fröhlich, W. Gerhardt, C. Gindler, J. Hatje, O. Hensler, J.M. Jäger, R. Kammering, S. Karstensen, H. Keller, V. Kocharyan, O. Korth, A. Labudda, T. Limberg, S.M. Meykopff, M. Möller, J. Penning, A. Petrosyan, G. Petrosyan, L.P. Petrosyan, V. Petrosyan, P. Pototzki, K.R. Rehlich, S. Rettig-Labusga, H.R. Rickens, G. Schlesselmann, B. Schoeneburg, E. Sombrowski, M. Staack, C. Stechmann, J. Szczesny, J. Wilgen, T. Wilksen, H. Wu
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • S. Abeghyan, A. Beckmann, D. Boukhelef, N. Coppola, S.G. Esenov, B. Fernandes, P. Gessler, G. Giambartolomei, S. Hauf, B.C. Heisen, S. Karabekyan, M. Kumar, L.G. Maia, A. Parenti, A. Silenzi, H. Sotoudi Namin, J. Szuba, M. Teichmann, J. Tolkiehn, K. Weger, J. Wiggins, K. Wrona, M. Yakopov, C. Youngman
    XFEL. EU, Hamburg, Germany
  
  The European XFEL is a 3.4km long X-ray Free Electron Laser in the final construction and commissioning phase in Hamburg. It will produce 27000 bunches per second at 17.5GeV. Early 2015 a first electron beam was produced in the RF-photo-injector and the commissioning of consecutive sections is following during this and next year. The huge number and variety of devices for the accelerator, beam line, experiment, cryogenic and facility systems pose a challenging control task. Multiple systems, including industrial solutions, must be interfaced to each other. The high number of bunches requires a tight time synchronization (down to picoseconds) and high performance data acquisition systems. Fast feedbacks from front-ends, the DAQs and online analysis system with a seamless integration of controls are essential for the accelerator and the initially 6 experimental end stations. It turns out that the European XFEL will be the first installation exceeding 2500 FPGA components in the MicroTCA form factor and will run one of the largest PROFIBUS networks. Many subsystem prototypes are already successfully in operation. An overview and status of the XFEL control system will be given.  
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MOA3O03
 Status of the Advanced LIGO Project  
 
  • J.G. Rollins
    CALTECH, Pasadena, California, USA
  
  Funding: NSF
The Advanced LIGO project*, which operates a pair of ultra-high strain sensitivity gravitational wave detectors, has just started its first observation run with newly upgraded detectors. This presentation will cover the overall design of the new detectors, with a focus on the digital control system that keeps the instrument at peak sensitivity.
*http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/32/7/074001 		 
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MOB3O01
 Extreme Light Infrastructure Beamlines - High Repetition Rate Advanced Petawatt Laser Control System  
 
  • C.D. Marshall, A.J. Bayramian, K. Charron, R.N. Fallejo, E.S. Fulkerson, C. Haefner, G.W. Johnson, D. Kim, E.S. Koh, R.K. Lanning, J.D. Nissen, D.E. Petersen, T.M. Spinka, S.J. Telford
    LLNL, Livermore, California, USA
  • M.A. Drouin, K. Kasl, T. Mazanec, J. Naylon
    ELI-BEAMS, Prague, Czech Republic
  • B. Rus
    Czech Republic Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
  
  Funding: This work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344.
ELI-Beamlines, under construction in Prague, is the high-energy and repetition-rate site of the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) project scheduled for 2018 user capability. The main objective is delivery of ultra-short high-energy laser pulses for the generation of secondary electromagnetic radiation and accelerated particles for both fundamental and applied research. One of the four planned beamlines is the High Repetition Rate Advanced Petawatt Laser System (HAPLS) being designed and constructed by LLNL in partnership with FZU IoP. The high average power short pulse laser will be capable to deliver Petawatt laser pulses at repetition rate 10 Hz. The system requires a high level of automation to safely and robustly operate. The integrated control system provides automatic operation of the high-energy machine and safety controls ensure fail-safe automated operation. The HAPLS control system requirements, design and architecture will be described, which consists of ~2,000 control points, 50 realtime computational nodes, and interfaces to supervisory systems, all based on a flexible and scalable LabVIEW framework to manage this complex system. 		 
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MOB3O02
 NSLS II Project, Development, and Commissioning Results  
 
  • L.R. Dalesio, G. Carcassi, M.A. Davidsaver, J.H. De Long, K.M. Ha, W.K. Lewis, N. Malitsky, K. Shroff, Y. Tian, L. Yang
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • G. Shen
    FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
  
  The NSLS II project started control system development in 2007 and completed commissioning in 2015. New hardware, tools, and applications were developed throughout the project to meet the project goals. Significant developments included the fast orbit feedback system, service based physics applications, relational database tools, and an integrated operator environment Control System Studio (CSS). This paper will discuss the results of the developments that were undertaken and their use for the accelerator and beam lines, commissioning results, and lessons learned along the way.  
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MOB3O03 MAX IV Laboratory, Milestones and Lessons Learned 9
 
  • V.H. Hardion, Y. Cerenius, F. H. Hennies, K. Larsson, J. Lidón-Simon, M. Sjöström, D.P. Spruce
    MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden
  
  The MAX IV Laboratory is a new scientific research facility based on synchrotron light being built at Lund University, southern Sweden. The accelerator consists of one full energy linear accelerator providing two storage rings at 1.5 GeV & 3 GeV and a Short Pulse Facility. Additionally more than 13 beamlines are planned to be built among which should be operational for the first users in 2016. The current status and approach of the control system is presented from its technical and organisational point of view, including the stakeholders, as well as the lessons learned from the commissioning as part of our continuous improvement for the future.  
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MOB3O04 The Construction Status of the SuperKEKB Control System 14
 
  • M. Iwasaki, A. Akiyama, K. Furukawa, H. Kaji, T. Naito, T.T. Nakamura, J.-I. Odagiri, S. Sasaki
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
  • T. Aoyama, M. Fujita, T. Nakamura, K. Yoshii
    Mitsubishi Electric System & Service Co., Ltd, Tsukuba, Japan
  • K. Asano, M. Hirose
    KIS, Ibaraki, Japan
  • Y. Iitsuka, N. Yoshifuji
    EJIT, Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan
  
  SuperKEKB is the upgrade of KEKB, the asymmetric energy electron-positron collider for the B-factory experiment in Japan. It aims at the 40-times higher luminosity than the world record by KEKB. The KEKB control system has been built based on EPICS at the equipment layer and scripting languages at the operation layer. The SuperKEKB control system continues to employ these frameworks while we implement new features for the successful operation at such a high luminosity. As the commissioning of the SuperKEKB main storage rings is scheduled to start in 2016, the construction of the control system is now in the final phase. We have upgraded and reinforced the network system, server computers and operator consoles. Most of the VME-based IOCs (I/O Controllers), which has been widely used in KEKB, are upgraded while the PLC-based IOCs are also widely introduced. The new timing system has been developed in order to handle the complicated injection scheme of the SuperKEKB accelerator complex efficiently. The new beam abort trigger system and the new beam gate control system have been developed, and so on. The construction status of the SuperKEKB accelerator control system will be presented.  
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MOM305 Control System for a Dedicated Accelerator for SACLA Wide-Band Beam Line 74
 
  • N. Hosoda, T. Fukui
    RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Innovative Light Sources Division, Hyogo, Japan
  • M. Ishii
    JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken, Japan
  • T. Ohshima, T. Sakurai, H. Takebe
    RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, Japan
  
  This paper report about a control system for a dedicated accelerator for SACLA wide-band beam line (BL1), requirements, construction strategies, and present status. At the upgrade plan of SACLA BL1, it was decided to move SCSS test accelerator, which operated from 2005 to 2013, to the upstream of the BL1 in the undulator hall. The control system of the accelerator had to be operated seamlessly with SACLA, to reuse old components as much as possible, and to avoid stopping SACLA user experiments during the start up. The system was constructed with MADOCA which is already used at SACLA. In the control components, VME optical DIO cards and chassis for magnet power supplies were reused after cleaning and checking that there was no degradation of quality. The RF conditioning of the accelerator was started in in October 2014, while SACLA user experiments were going on. A data collection system was prepared, myCC, having a MADOCA compatible interface and an independent database from SACLA. It enabled efficient start up and after enough debugging, the data collection was successfully merged to SACLA in January 2015. Beam commissioning of the accelerator is planned for autumn 2015.  
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MOM306 Status of the PAL-XFEL Control System 79
 
  • C. Kim, S.Y. Baek, H.-S. Kang, J.H. Kim, K.W. Kim, I.S. Ko, G. Mun, B.R. Park
    PAL, Pohang, Kyungbuk, Republic of Korea
  
  Pohang accelerator laboratory (PAL) started an x-ray free electron laser project (PAL-XFEL) in 2011. In the PAL-XFEL, an electron beam with 200 pC will be generated from a photocathode RF gun and will be accelerated to 10 GeV by using a linear accelerator. The electron beam will pass through undulator section to produce hard x-ray radiation. In 2015, we will finish the installation and will start a commissioning of the PAL-XFEL. In this paper, we introduce the PAL-XFEL and explain present status of it. Details of the control system will be described including a network system, a timing system, hardware control systems and a machine interlock system.  
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MOPGF051 ELI-ALPS Control System Status Report 216
 
  • L.J. Fülöp, S. Brockhauser, S. Farkas, V. Hanyecz, M. Kiss, M.T. Koncz, Á. Mohácsi, K. Nelissen, L. Schrettner, B. Szalai, P. Szász, C. Turner
    ELI-ALPS, Szeged, Hungary
  
  Funding: The ELI-ALPS project (GOP-1.1.1-12/B-2012-000, GINOP-2.3.6-15-2015-00001) is supported by the European Union and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund.
ELI-ALPS will provide a wide range of attosecond pulses which will be used for performing chemical, biological, physical or medical experiments by international research groups. It is one pillar of the first international laser facility for the scientific user communities. ELI-ALPS uses the TANGO Controls framework to build up the central control system and to integrate the autonomous subsystems regarding monitoring and control. It will be also used for the implementation of some autonomous systems' control system while others will be implemented differently. The central control system and the integration strategy of the autonomous systems is designed. The centralization and integration needs are surveyed and the requirements are collected. Prototypes have been developed to clarify the requirements and to test the designs. Requirements elicitation, designing and prototype development follows a Lean-Agile approach and includes several fields: device drivers and simulators; integration logic; central supervision, archiving, logging and error recovery; graphical user interfaces and so on. 		 
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MOPGF147 Realization of a Concept for Scheduling Parallel Beams in the Settings Management System for FAIR 434
 
  • H.C. Hüther, J. Fitzek, R. Müller, A. Schaller
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
  
  Approaching the commissioning of CRYRING, the first accelerator to be operated using the new control system for FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research), the new settings management system will also be deployed in a production environment for the first time. A major development effort is ongoing to realize requirements necessary to support accelerator operations at FAIR. The focus is on the pattern concept which allows controlling the whole facility with its different parallel beams in an integrative way. Being able to utilize central parts of the new control system already at CRYRING, before the first FAIR accelerators are commissioned, facilitates an early proof of concept and testing possibilities. Concurrently, refactorings and enhancements of the commonly used LSA (LHC Software Architecture) framework take place. At CERN, the interface to devices has been redesigned to enhance maintainability and diagnostics capabilities. At GSI, support for polynomials as a native datatype has been implemented, which will be used to represent accelerator settings as well as calibration curves. Besides functional improvements, quality assurance measures are being taken to increase code quality in prospect of productive use.  
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MOPGF149 Nuclotron and NICA Control System Development Status 437
 
  • E.V. Gorbachev, V. Andreev, A. Kirichenko, D.V. Monakhov, S. Romanov, T.V. Rukoyatkina
    JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
  • G.S. Sedykh, V. Volkov
    JINR/VBLHEP, Dubna, Moscow region, Russia
  
  The Nuclotron is a 6 GeV/n superconducting proton synchrotron operating at JINR, Dubna since 1993. It will be the core of the future accelerating complex NICA which is under construction now. NICA will provide collider experiments with heavy ions at nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energies of 4-11 GeV. The TANGO based control system of the accelerating complex is under development now. This paper describes its structure, main features and present status.  
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MOPGF153 Beam Instrumentation and Data Acquisition for CRYRING@ESR 446
 
  • T. Hoffmann, H. Bräuning, R. Haseitl, R. Lonsing, P.B. Miedzik, T. Milosic, A. Petit, A. Reiter
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
  
  At FAIR the re-assembly of the well known CRYRING accelerator, formerly hosted by Manne Siegbahn Laboratory (MSL) Stockholm, is currently in progress. This compact low energy heavy ion synchrotron and experimental storage ring will be a testing platform for all control system (CS) concepts decided on for FAIR. The CRYRING CS will be based on the system originally developed by CERN which combines the JAVA based application level LSA (LHC Software Architecture) , the data acquisition level FESA (Front-End Software Architecture) and the White Rabbit based timing system. All parts have been enhanced with GSI specific functionality. In preparation for the commissioning of CRYRING later in 2015 all required beam instrumentation (BI) equipment including the software is now under development. The data acquisition (DAQ) concepts for the various instruments is presented, with emphasis on the seamless integration into the overall CS. For standard BI systems, such as digital imaging, profile and intensity measurement, VME and IndustryPC based DAQ systems are used. For beam position monitoring a new hardware strategy which combines the microTCA and FMC (FPGA mezzanine card) form factors is under evaluation.  
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MOPGF154 Current Status and Perspectives of the Cryogenic Control System of EAST 449
 
  • L.B. Hu, Z.W. Zhou, M. Zhuang
    ASIPP, Hefei, People's Republic of China
  
  EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak) is the first full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device in the world which has been carried out ten campaigns since its implementation at the end of 2005. The cryogenic control system for EAST was designed based on DeltaV DCS of Emerson Corporation which has been in operation for the same time period and has been proved to be safe and stable. However, Manny control components have been running beyond the expected lifetime gradually. Many problems from control system have affected the cryogenic system reliability. This paper presents the current status and upgrade solutions of the cryogenic control system of EAST.  
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MOPGF155 Design and Status for the Electron Lens Project at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider 453
 
  • J.P. Jamilkowski, Z. Altinbas, M.R. Costanzo, T. D'Ottavio, X. Gu, M. Harvey, P. K. Kankiya, R.J. Michnoff, T.A. Miller, S. Nemesure, T.C. Shrey
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  
  Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-SC0012704 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
The Electron Lens upgrade project at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has reached an operational status, whereby intense, pulsed or DC beams of electrons are generated in order to interact with the RHIC polarized proton beams in both the Blue and Yellow Rings at the 10 o'clock Interaction Region. Interactions between the electrons and protons are utilized to counteract the beam-beam effect that arises from the desired polarized proton collisions, which result in a higher RHIC luminosity. A complex system for operating the e-lens has been developed, including superconducting and non-superconducting magnet controls, instrumentation systems, a COTS-based Machine Protection System, custom Blue and Yellow e-lens timing systems for synchronizing the electron beam with the RHIC timing system, beam alignment software tools for maximizing electron-proton collisions, as well as complex user interfaces to support routine operation of the system. e-lens software and hardware design will be presented, as well as recent updates to the system that were required in order to meet changing system requirements in preparation for the first operational run of the system. 		 
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MOPGF158 Sirius Control System: Design, Implementation Strategy and Measured Performance 456
 
  • J.P.S. Martins, M. Bacchetti, E.P. Coelho, R.F. Curcio, J.G.R.S. Franco, R.P. Lisboa, P.H. Nallin, A.R.D. Rodrigues, L.D.S. Sachinelli, M. E. Silva
    LNLS, Campinas, Brazil
  
  Sirius is a new 3 GeV synchrotron light source currently being designed at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS) in Campinas, Brazil. The Control System will be distributed and digitally connected to all equipment in order to avoid analog signal cables. A three-layer control system will be used. The equipment layer uses RS485 serial networks, running at 10Mbps, with a light proprietary protocol, over a proprietary hardware, in order to achieve good performance. The middle layer, interconnecting these serial networks, is based on Beaglebone Black single board computer and commercial switches. Operation layer will be composed of PC's running EPICS client programs. Special topology will be used for Orbit Feedback with a dedicated commercial 10Gbps switch. The lower layers software implementation may use either (a) distributed EPICS conventional servers, the traditional approach, or (b) centralized EPICS server, using data servers and light proprietary protocol over Ethernet. Both cases use the same hardware and can run concurrently, sharing the control network. Measured performance with these two approaches will be presented.  
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MOPGF160 ARIEL Control System at TRIUMF - Status Update 460
 
  • R.B. Nussbaumer, D. Dale, K. Ezawa, K. Fong, H. Hui, R. Iranmanesh, J. Kavarskas, D.B. Morris, J.J. Pon, S. Rapaz, J.E. Richards, M. Rowe, T.M. Tateyama, E. Tikhomolov, G. Waters, P.J. Yogendran
    TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vancouver, Canada
  
  The Advanced Rare Isotope & Electron Linac (ARIEL) facility at TRIUMF has now reached completion of the first phase of construction; the Electron Linac. A commissioning control system has been built and used to commission the electron e-gun and two stages of SRF acceleration. Numerous controls subsystems have been deployed including beamlines, vacuum systems, beamline diagnostics, machine protect system interfaces, LLRF, HPRF, and cryogenics. This paper describes some of the challenges and solutions that were encountered, and describes the scope of the project to date. An evaluation of some techniques that had been proposed and described at ICALEPCS 2013 are included.  
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MOPGF161 LANSCE Control System Upgrade Status and Challenges 464
 
  • M. Pieck, D. Baros, E. Björklund, J.A. Faucett, J.G. Gioia, J.O. Hill, P.S. Marroquin, J.D. Paul, J.D. Sedillo, F.E. Shelley, H.A. Watkins
    LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
  
  Funding: Work supported by Los Alamos National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract W-7405-ENG-36. LA-UR-15-27880
The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) linear accelerator drives five user facilities: Isotope Production, Proton Radiography, Ultra-Cold Neutrons, Weapons Neutron Research, and Neutron Scattering. In 2011, we started an ambitious project to refurbish key elements of the LANSCE accelerator that have become obsolete or were near end-of-life. The control system went through an upgrade process that affected different areas of LANSCE. Many improvements have been made but funding challenges and LANSCE operational commitments have delayed project deliverables. In this paper, we will discuss our upgrade choices, what we have accomplished so far, what we have learned about upgrading the existing control system and what challenges we still face. 		 
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MOPGF162 MaRIE - Instrumentation & Control System Design Status and Options 468
 
  • M. Pieck, R.W. Garnett, F.E. Shelley, B.G. Smith
    LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
  
  Funding: Work supported by Los Alamos National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract W-7405-ENG-36. LA-UR-15-27877
Los Alamos National Laboratory has defined a new signature science facility, Matter-Radiation Interactions in Extremes (MaRIE) that builds on the existing capabilities of the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE). It will be the first multi-probe materials research center to combine high-energy, high-repetition-rate, coherent x-rays with electron and proton-beam charged-particle imaging to perform in-situ measurements of a sample in extreme environments. At its core, a 42-keV XFEL will be coupled with the LANSCE MW proton accelerator. A pre-conceptual design for MaRIE has been established. Technical risk reduction for the project includes an injector test-stand that is currently being designed. New accelerators are either planned, under construction, or currently in operation around the world, providing opportunities for the MaRIE project to leverage the instrumentation & controls (I&C) efforts of these facilities to minimize non-recurring engineering costs. This paper discusses possible MaRIE I&C system implementation choices and trade-offs, and also provides an overview of the proposed MaRIE facilities and the current design. 		 
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MOPGF163 Status of the Local Monitor and Control System of SKA Dishes 472
 
  • S. Riggi, U. Becciani, A. Costa, A. Ingallinera, F. Schillirò, C. Trigilio
    INAF-OACT, Catania, Italy
  • V. Baldini, R. Cirami, A. Marassi
    INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy
  • G. Nicotra, C. Nocita
    INAF IRA, Bologna, Italy
  
  The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) project aims at building the world's largest radio observatory to observe the radio sky with unprecedented sensitivity and collecting area. In the SKA1 phase of the project, two dish arrays are to be built, one in South Africa (SKA1-Mid) and the other in Western Australia (SKA1-Survey). Each antenna will be provided with a local monitor and control system, enabling remote operations to engineers and to the Telescope Manager system. In this paper we present the current status of the software system being designed to monitor and control the dish subsystem. An overview of the dish instrumentation is reported, along with details concerning the software architecture, functional interfaces, prototyping and the evaluated technologies.  
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MOPGF164 Status of the EPICS-Based Control and Interlock System of the Belle II PXD 476
 
  • M. Ritzert
    Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
  
  Funding: This work has been supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under Grant Identifier 05H12VHH.
The Belle II e+/e− collider experiment at KEK will include a new pixelated detector (PXD) based on DEPFET technology as the innermost layer. This detector requires a complex control and readout infrastructure consisting of several ASICs and FPGA boards. This paper present the architecture and EPICS-based implementation of the control, alarm, and interlock systems, their interface to the various subsystems, and to the NSM2-based Belle II run-control. The complex startup sequence is orchestrated by a statemachine. CSS is used to implement the user interface. The alarm system uses CSS/BEAST, and is designed to minimize spurious alarms. The interlock system consists of two main parts: a hardware-based system that triggers on adverse environmental (temperature, humidity, radiation) conditions, and a software-based system. Strict monitoring including the use of heartbeats ensures permanent protection and fast reaction times. Especially the power supply system is monitored for malfunctions, and all user inputs are verified before they are sent to the hardware. The control system also incorporates archiving, logging, and reporting in a uniform workflow for the ease of daily operation.
For the DEPFET Collaboration. 		 
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MOPGF179 Status of the Solaris Control System - Collaborations and Technology 510
 
  • P.P. Goryl, C.J. Bocchetta, P. Bulira, A.I. Wawrzyniak, K. Wawrzyniak, Ł. Żytniak
    Solaris, Kraków, Poland
  • V.H. Hardion, J.J. Jamróz, J. Lidón-Simon, M. Lindberg, A.G. Persson, D.P. Spruce
    MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden
  • M.J. Stankiewicz
    Solaris National Synchrotron Radiation Centre, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
  • T. Szymocha
    Cyfronet, Kraków, Poland
  
  Funding: Work supported by the European Regional Development Fund within the frame of the Innovative Economy Operational Program: POIG.02.01.00-12-213/09.
The Solaris is a synchrotron light source starting just now in Kraków, Poland. It is built with strong collaboration with other European accelerator facilities. The MAX-IV project in Lund, Sweden and Tango Community are the most important partners in the project. Solaris has built a twin copy of MAX-IV 1.5GeV ring and linear accelerator based on the same components as the ones of MAX-IV. Thus, both facilities share know-how and apply similar technologies for the control system, among them the Tango CS is used for software layer. Status of the control system in Kraków as well as collaborations and technological choices impact on its success will be presented. 		 
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FRA3O01 Past, Present and Future of the ASKAP Monitoring and Control System 1162
 
  • M. Marquarding
    CASS, Epping, Australia
  
  The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is CSIRO's new radio telescope currently under construction and commissioning at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in the Mid West region of Western Australia. The first six antennas equipped with the first generation (or Mark-I) Phased Array Feeds (PAF) have been in commissioning since 2013. Twelve of the second generation (Mark-II) PAFs are expected to hit the ground late this year leading into the start of the Early Science program. This paper will present the current status of the ASKAP project, including some exciting results coming from the commissioning activities. This will encompass the status of the monitoring and control system, named the Telescope Operating System (TOS), future developments and some of the lessons learned during the early stages of the integration and commissioning phase.  
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FRA3O02 The Laser Magajoule Facility: Control System Status Report 1165
 
  • J. Nicoloso
    CEA/DAM/DIF, Arpajon, France
  
  The Laser MegaJoule (LMJ) is a 176-beam laser facility, located at the CEA CESTA Laboratory near Bordeaux (France). It is designed to deliver about 1.4 MJ of energy to targets, for high energy density physics experiments, including fusion experiments. The commissioning of the first bundle of 8 beams was achieved in October 2014. Commissioning of next bundles is on the way. The paper gives an overview of the general control system architecture, which is designed around the industrial SCADA PANORAMA, supervising about 500 000 control points, using 250 virtual machines on the high level and hundreds of PCs and PLCs on the low level. The focus is on the rules and development guidelines that allowed smooth integration for all the subsystems delivered by a dozen of different contractors. The integration platform and simulation tools designed to integrate the hardware and software outside the LMJ facility are also described. Having such tools provides the ability of integrating the command control subsystems regardless the co-activity issues encountered on the facility itself. That was the key point for success.  
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FRA3O03 Overview and Status of the SwissFEL Project at PSI 1169
 
  • M. Janousch, A.D. Alarcon, A. Ambrosch, D. Anicic, A.G. Bertrand, K. Bitterli, H. Brands, P. Bucher, T. Celcer, P. Chevtsov, E.J. Divall, S.G. Ebner, M. Gasche, A. Gobbo, F. Haemmerli, C.E. Higgs, T. Hovel, T. Humar, G. Janser, G. Jud, B. Kalantari, R. Kapeller, R.A. Krempaská, D.J. Lauk, M.P. Laznovsky, C. Luscher, H. Lutz, D. Maier-Manojlovic, F. Märki, T. Pal, W. Portmann, S.G. Rees, T. Zamofing, C. Zellweger, D. Zimoch, E. Zimoch
    PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
  
  Recently, the installation of the components for the free electron laser SwissFEL has started at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). In March 2016, beginning of the injector commissioning is planned and first lasing is foreseen a year later. New hardware, like VME64x-boards (IFC 1210, an P2020 based intelligent FPGA controller from IOxOS) and -crates (Trenew), timing system (from MRF with advanced features), motion controllers (Power PMAC from Delta Tau, and MDrive from Schneider), among others, as well as modern field buses, pose great challenges to the controls team. The close interaction of machine- and experiment-components require advanced software concepts for data-acquisition, -distribution, and -archiving. An overview of the project will be presented and the different HW and SW solutions based on the experience gained from preliminary implementations at other facilities of PSI will be explained. First results of the HW commissioning at the SwissFEL will be reported.  
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FRB3O01 Commissioning of the TPS Control System 1173
 
  • C.Y. Liao, Y.-T. Chang, J. Chen, Y.-S. Cheng, P.C. Chiu, K.T. Hsu, S.Y. Hsu, K.H. Hu, C. H. Huang, C.H. Kuo, D. Lee, C.-J. Wang, C.Y. Wu
    NSRRC, Hsinchu, Taiwan
  
  Control system for the Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) has been completed in 2014. Commissioning of the accelerator system is in proceeding. Electron beam were stored at the storage ring and emit first light in December 31, 2014. TPS control system adopts EPICS toolkits as its frameworks. The subsystems control interfaces include event based timing system, Ethernet based power supply control, corrector power supply control, PLC-based pulse magnet power supply control and machine protection system, insertion devices motion control system, various diagnostics related control environment, and etc. The standard hardware components had been installed and integrated, and the various IOCs (Input Output Controller) had been implemented as various subsystems control platforms. Low level and high level hardware and software are tested intensively in 2014 and final revise to prepare for routine operation is under way. Efforts will be summarized at this paper.  
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FRB3O02 Status of the European Spallation Source Control System 1177
 
  • T. Korhonen, R. Andersson, F. Bellorini, S.L. Birch, D.P. Brodrick, H. Carling, J. Cereijo García, R.N. Fernandes, L. Fernandez, B. Gallese, S.R. Gysin, E. Laface, N. Levchenko, M. Mansouri Sharifabad, A. Monera Martinez, R. Mudingay, A. Nordt, D. Paulic, D.P. Piso, K. Rathsman, M. Reščič, G. Trahern, M. Zaera-Sanz
    ESS, Lund, Sweden
  • N. Claesson, U. Rojec, K. Strniša, A.A. Söderqvist
    Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  
  The European Spallation Source (ESS) is a collaboration of 17 European countries to build the world's most powerful neutron source for research. ESS has entered the construction phase and the plan is to produce first neutrons by 2019 and to complete the construction by 2025. The Integrated Control System Division (ICS) is responsible to provide control systems for the whole facility. The unprecented beam power of 5 MW and the construction of the facility with many components contributed in-kind presents a number of challenges to the control system. Systems have to be specified so that the work can be effectively shared between the contributors and on-site staff. Control system components need to provide a level of performance that can support the operation of the facility, be standardized so that integration to the facility can be done during a short installation period and be maintainable by the in-house staff after the construction has finished. This paper will outline the plans and principles that will be used to construct the control systems. The selected technologies and standards will be presented, as well as the plans for integration.  
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FRB3O03
 LCLS-II Controls and Safety Systems Status  
 
  • D. Rogind, M. Boyes, H. Shoaee
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  
  Funding: Work supported by U.S. Department of Energy contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.
The LCLS-II FEL at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, a significant addition to LCLS-I, is designed to dramatically decrease data acquisition time by providing high repetition rate over a broad energy range. The design consisting of a CW superconducting Linac with bunch repetition rates of up to one MHz and beam power of several hundred kilowatts requires major enhancements to the LCLS-I controls system. LCLS-II will retain the successful architecture based on EPICS while implementing additional technologies to meet the new requirements. These include a new LLRF system for the superconducting Linac, a new timing system to allow MHz operation, and new data acquisition electronics for the beam position monitors and other beam diagnostic systems. The high beam rate and power also necessitate faster beam abort mechanisms, requiring enhanced machine and personnel protection systems. In order to address the high speed processing and high throughput requirements of a number of systems, an ADC/FPGA/DAC-based system as a common platform for several applications is being developed. This paper presents an overview of the LCLS-II controls and discuss the status of the critical systems. 		 
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