Sardana Based Continuous Scans at ALBA - Current Status

Reszela, Zbigniew; Becheri, Fulvio; Cuní, Guifre; Falcon-Torres, Carlos; Fernández-Carreiras, David; Homs-Puron, Roberto; Moldes, Jairo; Pascual-Izarra, Carlos; Pastor Ortiz, Roger; Roldán, Daniel; Rosanes Siscart, Marc

doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2017-WEBPL06

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TY - CONF
AU - Reszela, Z.
AU - Becheri, F.
AU - Cuní, G.
AU - Falcon-Torres, C.
AU - Fernández-Carreiras, D.
AU - Homs-Puron, R.
AU - Moldes, J.
AU - Pascual-Izarra, C.
AU - Pastor Ortiz, R.
AU - Roldán, D.
AU - Rosanes Siscart, M.
ED - Schaa, Volker RW
ED - Costa, Isidre
ED - FernÃ¡ndez, David
ED - Matilla, Ãscar
TI - Sardana Based Continuous Scans at ALBA - Current Status
J2 - Proc. of ICALEPCS2017, Barcelona, Spain, 8-13 October 2017
C1 - Barcelona, Spain
T2 - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Control Systems
T3 - 16
LA - english
AB - A significant part of the experiments run at Alba Synchrotron* involve scans. The continuous scans were developed first ad hoc and latter the controls group dedicated important efforts to standardize them across the Alba instruments, enhancing the overall performance and allowing the users to better exploit the beamtime**. Sardana***, the experiment control software used at Alba, among other features, aims to provide a generic way of programming and executing continuous scans. This development just achieved a major milestone - an official version with a stable API. Recently the Alba instruments were successfully upgraded to profit from this release. In this paper we describe the evolution of these setups as well as the new continuous scan applications run at Alba. On the one hand, the most relevant hardware solutions are presented and assessed. On the other hand the Sardana software is evaluated in terms of its utility in building the continuous scans setups. Finally we discuss the future improvements plan designed to satisfy the ever-increasing requirements of the scientists.
PB - JACoW
CP - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 1067
EP - 1072
KW - ion
KW - controls
KW - experiment
KW - software
KW - hardware
DA - 2018/01
PY - 2018
SN - 978-3-95450-193-9
DO - 10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2017-WEBPL06
UR - http://jacow.org/icalepcs2017/papers/webpl06.pdf
ER -