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| RPPA02 | Linac RF Feed-forward Development at TLS | 523 |
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| Performance of an electron linear accelerator is very important for synchrotron light source operation. Its performance in amplitude and phase of the RF field will decide the quality of extract beam. The RF feed-forward control is helpful to fixed amplitude and phase constant and keeps on stable beam extract. Design consideration and details of the implementation will be summary in this report. | ||
| RPPA03 | The LHC Functional Layout Database as Foundation of the Controls System | 526 |
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| For the design, construction, integration, and installation of the LHC, the LHC Layout database manages the information on the functional positions of the components of the LHC. Since January 2005, the scope of this database has been extended to include all electronics racks in the tunnel, underground areas, and surface buildings. This description of the accelerator and the installed controls topology is now used as the foundation for the online operational databases, namely for controls configuration and operational settings. This paper will sketch the scope of the Layout database and explain the details of data propagation towards the respective controls data consumers. The question whether this approach is applicable to the rest of the accelerator complex at CERN will be addressed as well. | ||
| RPPA04 | Automating the Configuration of the Control Systems of the LHC Experiments | 529 |
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| The supervisory layer of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments is based on the PVSS SCADA tool and the Joint Control Project (JCOP) framework. This controls framework includes a Finite State Machine (FSM) toolkit, which allows operation of the control systems according to a well-defined set of states and commands. During the FSM transitions of the detectors, it will be required to reconfigure parts of the control systems. All configuration parameters of the devices integrated into the control system are stored in the so-called configuration database. In this paper the JCOP FSM-Configuration database tool is presented. This tool represents a common solution for the four LHC experiments to ensure the availability of all configuration data required for a given type of run of the experiment, in the PVSS sub-detector control applications. The implementation strategy chosen is discussed in the paper. This approach enables the standalone operation of different partitions of the detectors simultaneously while ensuring independent data handling. Preliminary performance results of the tool are also presented in this paper. | ||
| RPPA05 | Software Management of the LHC Detector Control Systems | 532 |
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| The control systems of each of the LHC experiments contain on the order of 150 computers running the back-end applications that are based on the PVSS SCADA package and the Joint Controls Project (JCOP) Framework. These inter-cooperating controls applications are being developed by different groups all around the world and have to be integrated by the experiments’ central controls teams. These applications will have to be maintained and eventually upgraded during the lifetime of the LHC experiments, ~20 years. This paper presents the centralized software management strategy based on the JCOP framework installation tool, a central repository shared by the different controls applications and an external database that holds the overall system configuration. The framework installation tool allows installation of software components in the sub-detector PVSS applications and eases integration of different parts of a control system. The information stored in the system configuration database can also be used by the installation tool to restore a computer in the event of failure. The central repository provides versioning of the various software components integrating the control system. | ||
| RPPA10 | Status of the Diamond Fast Orbit Feedback System | 535 |
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| We present the development of transverse orbit stability control at Diamond. We discuss the low latency feedback loop required to effectively suppress high-frequency noise, which informs the choice of network topology and processing units. We explore the use of the field-programmable gate array in the Libera beam position monitor as a communication controller and the vector unit of the PowerPC G4 in the compensator. System models and results from preliminary tests on the machine are shown. | ||
| RPPA11 | MultiController: An Object Programming Approach to Introduce Advanced Control Algorithms for the GCS Large-Scale Project | 538 |
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The GCS* project team at CERN uses a Model-Driven Approach with a Framework—UNICOS (UNified Industrial COntrol System)—based on PLC** and SCADA*** technologies. The first UNICOS versions were able to provide a PID**** controller, whereas the Gas Systems required more advanced control strategies. The MultiController is a new UNICOS object that provides the following advanced control algorithms: Smith Predictor, PFC (Predictive Function Control), RST, and GPC (Global Predictive Control). Its design is based on a monolithic entity with a global structure definition able to capture the desired set of parameters of any specific control algorithm proposed by the object. The SCADA system—PVSS—supervises the MultiController operation. It gives the user a wide choice of features through the MultiController object interface, including a recipe mechanism: the GCS experts are able to capture sets of relevant advanced control algorithm parameters to reuse them later. Starting by exposing the MultiController object design and implementation for a PVSS and Schneider PLC solution, this paper finishes by highlighting the benefits of the MultiController with the GCS applications.
*Gas Control System**Programming Language Controller***Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition****Proportional Integrative Derivative |
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| RPPA12 | Process Control: Object Oriented Model for Offline Data | 541 |
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| Process control systems are primarily designed to handle online real-time data. But once the system has to be maintained over years of continuous operation, the aspects of asset management (e.g., spare parts) and reengineering (e.g., loading process computers and field bus processors with consistent data after modification of instrumentation) become more and more important. One way to get the necessary information is data mining in the running system. The other possibility is to collect all relevant information in a database from the beginning and build up configuration files from there. For the cryogenic systems in the XFEL, the planned x-ray free electron laser facility at DESY in Hamburg, Germany, EPICS will be used as the process control software. This talk will present the status of the development of our device database, which is to hold the offline data. We have chosen an approach representing the instrumentation and field bus components as objects in Java. The objects are made persistent in an Oracle database using Hibernate. The user interface will be implemented as a plugin to the control system studio CSS based on Eclipse. | ||
| RPPA13 | The Electrical Power Project at SNS | 544 |
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| The Electrical Power Project consists of recording data on all power-distribution devices necessary to SNS operations and how they are connected, assigning a valid name to each device and describing it, along with loading this information and the relationships into the SNS Oracle database. Interactive web-based applications allow users to display and easily update power-related data. In the case of planned electrical outages, a complete list of affected devices (including beam-line devices) will be available to controls, diagnostics, and other groups in advance. The power-tree information can be used to help diagnose electrical problems of any specific device. Fast access to device characteristics and relations from any web browser will help technical personnel quickly identify hazards and prevent electrical accidents, thereby ensuring SNS electrical safety. The project was completed by a special task team containing individuals from different groups. The paper covers the project history, QA issues, technology used, and current status. | ||
| RPPA14 | Java Tool Framework for Automation of Hardware Commissioning and Maintenance Procedures | 547 |
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| The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is a 192-beam laser system designed to study high energy density physics. Each beam line contains a variety of line replaceable units (LRUs) that include optics, stepping motors, sensors and other devices to control and diagnose the laser. During commissioning or subsequent maintenance of the laser, LRUs undergo a qualification process using the Integrated Computer Control System (ICCS) to verify and calibrate the equipment. The commissioning processes are both repetitive and tedious using remote manual computer controls, making them ideal candidates for software automation. Maintenance and Commissioning Tool (MCT) software was developed to improve the efficiency of the qualification process. The tools are implemented in Java, leveraging ICCS services and CORBA to communicate with the control devices. The framework provides easy-to-use mechanisms for handling configuration data, task execution, task progress reporting, and generation of commissioning test reports. The tool framework design and application examples will be discussed. | ||
| RPPA15 | Initial Performance Results of the APS P0 Feedback System | 550 |
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| The Advanced Photon Source electron beam exhibits transverse instability when a large amount of charge is present in a single bunch. The P0 feedback system stabilizes the transverse motion of the beam under these circumstances. The initial requirement was to stabilize a single bunch of electrons in the horizontal plane. By implementing the stabilizer in an FPGA and using the parallel processing capabilities provided by this hardware, it is possible to stabilize 324 bunches per turn in both the horizontal and vertical planes. The stabilizer consists of 648 32-tap finite impulse response filters. This paper discusses the challenges in achieving this performance and some issues in interfacing to a Coldfire IOC running RTEMS. Initial test results of the system response are presented. | ||
| RPPA17 | A Physics Based Approach for Magnet Control in a Booster and Storage Ring | 553 |
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| At Duke University, a booster synchrotron was recently commissioned as part of the HIGS upgrade. For the ramping magnet power supply controls, we followed an approach previously implemented for the Duke Storage Ring controls. The high-level operator interface is presented in terms of the physics quantities of the accelerator, i.e., the effective focusing strength of the magnets. This approach allows for a tighter integration of the control system with physics modeling programs and facilitates machine studies. The approach also simplifies operations of the accelerators by presenting an interface nearly independent of machine energy. For the booster, nonlinearities of the magnets, a result of its extremely compact footprint, are incorporated in to the low-level software while providing a high level of machine tunability. For the storage ring, feed forward compensations built on the effective strength of the magnets simplify tuning of the machine over a wide range of electron beam energies or wiggler settings. This approach provides for a good match to the diverse operational modes supported by the Duke Storage Ring. | ||
| RPPA19 | Photon Diagnostic Station for TAC IR-FEL Test Facility | 556 |
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| The Turkic Accelerator Center (TAC) project has been accepted by Turkish government. According to this project, a linac-based infrared oscillator free electron laser (FEL) will be constructed as a TAC test facility by the end of 2010. Planning work has been ongoing for the firt FEL facility building in Turkey. Both 20- and 40-MeV electron energies will be used to obtain infrared photons in the wavelength region of 1 to 100 micrometers. The IR FEL photons generated by two undulators will be transported through the respestive two photon beam lines to the experimental hall, where they are fed in to eight experimental station. Photon diagnostic station will be located in the experimental hall to measure the properties of the photon beam. In this work, the performance of the designed IR-FEL photon diagnostic station for the TAC test facility has been discussed. | ||
| RPPA20 | A Fast Orbit Feedback for the ELETTRA Storage Ring | 558 |
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| A fast global orbit feedback using digital Beam Position Monitor (BPM) detectors has been installed and commissioned at Elettra. The system uses 96 BPMs and 82 steerer magnets to correct closed orbit errors at a 10-kHz repetition rate. The feedback processing is performed by twelve VME stations equipped with commercial CPU boards running the Linux operating system with real-time extension and connected to each other by a low-latency fiber optic network. The system is fully controlled by a Tango based control system. A number of diagnostic and visualization software tools have been developed to easily operate the feedback and detect anomalous sources of orbit distortion. The operational experience and the achieved results are presented. Plans for further improvements of orbit stability are also discussed. | ||
| RPPA23 | Initial Design of a Global Fast Orbit Feedback System for the ALBA Synchrotron | 561 |
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| This paper presents the initial design of the Global Fast Orbit Feedback (FOFB) system for the ALBA Storage Ring. The FOFB system is designed to reach a submicron stability of the electron beam working at frequencies of at least 100 Hz. It compensates the small perturbations produced by vibrations, electromagnetic noise and changes in the gap or phase of the insertion devices, etc. A description of the model is shown. The different subsystems have been identified and modeled: the BPM processor, the iron lamination and the vacuum chamber. The power converter supplies for the correctors play an important role in the system, and they have been designed (strength, resolution, bandwidth, voltage output) accordingly with the FOFB requirements. We have also studied the latency of the system (communication network, processing times). The orbit correction is computed by a PID controller. The simulations of the closed loop response show a damping of the perturbation between 0 and 100 Hz, although the system also introduces a small amplification of the noise just after this bandwidth. Finally the paper presents the initial design of the hardware architecture of the FOFB system. | ||
| RPPA25 | The Data Acquisition System (DAQ) of the FLASH Facility | 564 |
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| Nowadays the photon science experiments and the machines providing these photon beams produce enormous amounts of data. To capture the data from the photon science experiments and from the machine itself, we developed a novel Data AcQusition (DAQ) system for the FLASH (Free electron LASer in Hamburg) facility. Meanwhile the system is not only fully integrated into the DOOCS control system, but is also the core for a number of essential machine-related feedback loops and monitoring tasks. A central DAQ server records and stores the data of more than 900 channels with 1-MHz up to 2-GHz sampling and several images from the photon science experiments with a typical frame rate of 5 Hz. On this server all data are synchronized on a bunch basis which makes this the perfect location to attach, e.g., high-level feedbacks and calculations. An overview of the architecture of the DAQ system and its interconnections within the complex of the FLASH facility together with the status of the DAQ system and possible future extensions/applications will be given. | ||
| RPPA26 | Database for Control System of J-PARC 3 GeV RCS | 567 |
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| The Control System of J-PARC 3GeV RCS is configured based on Database, which is comprised of Component Data Management DB (Component DB) and Data Acquisition DB (Operation DB. Component DB was developed mainly to manage the data on accelerator components and to generate EPICS records automatically using the data. Presently we are testing the reliability of DB application software at Linac operation. Later most Linac EPICS records are generated from DB, and we are able to operate Linac with very few problems. Operation DB collects the two kinds of data. One is EPICS records data, and the other is synchronized data. Now we are testing the reliability of application software for EPICS records data collection, and we have confirmed that EPICS record data are corrected with very few problems. Later Linac EPICS records data are inserted in Operation DB from Linac Operation start. On the other hand, application software for synchronized data collection is now being developed, and we will test the reliability of this application software from comprehensive information on RCS operation. We report on the status of development for Database for Control System of J-PARC 3GeV RCS. | ||
| RPPA27 | Status of the TANGO Archiving System | 570 |
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| This poster will give a detailed status of the major functionality delivered as a Tango service: the archiving service. The goal of this service is to maintain the archive history of thousands of accelerators or beamline control parameters in order to be able to correlate signals or to get snapshots of the system at different times and to compare them. For this aim, three database services have been developed and fully integrated in Tango: an historical database with an archiving frequency up to 0.1 Hz, a short-term database providing a few hours retention but with higher archiving frequency (up to 10 HZ), and finally a snapshotting database. These services are available to end users through two graphical user interfaces: Mambo (for data extraction/visualization from historical and temporary databases) and Bensikin (for snapshots management). The software architecture and design of the whole system will be presented, as well as the current status of the deployment at SOLEIL. | ||
| RPPA29 | A Feed-Forward Procedure to Counteract Orbit Distortions and Photon Beam Displacements from Insertion Device Operation at the SLS | 573 |
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| Insertion devices of various types provide light of high brilliance to experimenters at the SLS beamlines. Changes in the photon energy and polarization by movement of the ID gap and phase shift, however, cause orbit distortions that result in a displacement of the photon beam in both angle and position at the beamline. A feed-forward correction scheme has been developed to quantify and precisely correct these effects using designated correctors local to the photon source. The corrector settings are determined using an orbit configuration consisting of 73 digital BPMs and associated correctors; recently commissioned X-ray BPMs located at the beamline front-end are also included in the correction algorithmn and serve to constrain the photon beam to its specified position. The feed-forward table is finally implemented at the local processor level and applied at a rate of 10 Hz. A photon pointing stability at the sub-microradian level is achieved. The entire gap scan, feed-forward generation and subsequent verification can now be completed within 15 to 60 minutes depending on the complexity of the ID. The methodology of the procedure and high-level software framework is described. | ||
| RPPA30 | Drift Compensation for the SNS Laserwire | 576 |
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| The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) uses a laserwire to measure the transverse profiles in the Super Conduction Linac (SCL). The laser is located in a service building downstream from the SCL. Mirrors direct the laser light to a specific location to interact with the ion beam. Because of the long travel length of the light, up to 300 feet, minor mirror movements become large enough at the down stream station that the drift over time must be corrected. In this paper we describe how we correct for the drift and present our results. | ||
| RPPA31 | Construction and Application of Database for CSNS | 579 |
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| The database of the China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) Accelerator is designed to store machine parameters, magnet measurement data, survey and alignment data, control system configuration data, equipment historical data, e-logbook, and so on. It will also provide project management quality assurance, error impact analysis, and assembly assistance including sorting. This paper introduces the construction and application of the database for CSNS. Details such as convention name rules, database model and schema, interface of import and export data, and database maintenance will be presented. | ||
| RPPA32 | Energy Ramping in BEPCII | 582 |
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| The magnet power supply ramping synchronously is a fundamental procedure of the energy ramping of the BEPCII storage ring. The BEPCII has been put into synchrotron radiation operation (SR) (2.5GeV) research for 2 months after beams were successfully running in the Storage Ring with good beam performance. A software-based synchronization of the DAC setting on the power supplies is developed to achieve the relative magnet power supplies in the synchrotron ring ramped to the designed current synchronously. This paper introduces the schemes developed to perform energy ramping in the BEPCII storage ring and reports on the result of the operation carried out so far. | ||
| RPPA33 | Search for a Reliable Storage Architecture for RHIC | 585 |
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| Software used to operate the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) resides on one operational RAID storage system. This storage system is also used to store data that reflects the status and recent history of accelerator operations. Failure of this system interrupts the operation of the accelerator as backup systems are brought online. In order to increase the reliability of this critical control system component, the storage system architecture has been upgraded to use Storage Area Network (SAN) technology and to introduce redundant components and redundant storage paths. This paper describes the evolution of the storage system, the contributions to reliability that each additional feature has provided, further improvements that are being considered, and real-life experience with the current system. | ||
| RPPA35 | The DIAMON Project – Monitoring and Diagnostics for the CERN Controls Infrastructure | 588 |
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| The CERN accelerators’ controls infrastructure spans over large geographical distances and accesses a big diversity of equipment. In order to ensure smooth beam operation, efficient monitoring and diagnostic tools are required by the operators, presenting the state of the infrastructure and offering guidance for the first line support. The DIAMON project intends to deploy software monitoring agents in the controls infrastructure, each agent running predefined local tests and sending its result to a central service. A highly configurable graphical interface will exploit these results and present the current state of the controls infrastructure. Diagnostic facilities to get further details on a problem and first aid to repair it will also be provided. This paper will describe the DIAMON project’s scope and objectives as well as the user requirements. Also presented will be the system architecture and the first operational version. | ||
| RPPA36 | Handling Large Data Amounts in ALICE DCS | 591 |
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| The amount of control data to be handled by the ALICE experiment at CERN is by a magnitude larger than in previous-generation experiments. Some 18 detectors, 130 subsystems, and 100,000 control channels need to be configured, controlled, and archived in normal operation. During the configuration phase several Gigabytes of data are written to devices, and during stable operations some 1,000 values per second are written to archival. The peak load for the archival is estimated to 150,000 changes/s. Data is also continuously exchanged with several external systems, and the system should be able to operate unattended and fully independent from any external resources. Much care has been taken in the design to fulfill the requirements, and this report will describe the solutions implemented. The data flow and the various components will be described as well as the data exchange mechanisms and the interfaces to the external systems. Some emphasis will also be given to data reduction and filtering mechanisms that have been implemented in order to keep the archive within maintainable margins. | ||
| RPPA37 | Experiences: Configuration Management with a Generic RDB Data-Model | 594 |
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| A new RDB data-model has been introduced at BESSY to enable a more generic approach to store and handle configuration data. Stored data ranges from global hardware-structure and -information through building logical hierarchies to configuration information for monitoring applications as well as signal-level information. This information is used to configure the front-end computers as well as the generic and higher-level tools like alarm-handler and archiver. New applications at BESSY are developed with this generic RDB data-model in mind. First experiences with real-life applications as well as a set of tools for entering, maintenance, and retrieval of configuration data are described in this paper. | ||
| RPPA38 | Fast Orbit Feedback System Upgrade in the TLS | 597 |
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| Orbit feedback system of the Taiwan Light Source (TLS) has been deployed for a decade. The loop bandwidth was limited by existing hardware. The system cannot remove perturbation caused by fast source. To improve orbit feedback performance, BPM system and corrector power supply are planned to upgrade within a couples of years. New digital BPM electronics will enhance functionality of the BPM system and replace analogy type BPM but due to limited resource, the BPM system will be a mixed type at this moment. The corrector power-supply is also replaced by high performance switching type power supply with wide bandwidth in the same time. It is expected that our upgrade will significantly improve performance of fast orbit feedback. | ||
| RPPA39 | Accelerator Trouble Ticket | 600 |
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| The DAFNE Accelerator complex, a 1020-MeV center of mass lepton collider for Phi particle production, consists of a linear accelerator, a damping ring, nearly 180 m of transfer lines, two storage rings that intersect in two points, a test beam area providing e+/e- and photos (BTF) on demand, and three synchrotron light lines (DAFNE-L). The complexity of the machine and subsystem pushed us to develop a system for logging, archiving, and making statistics and history of the DAFNE accelerator and experimental user’s faults, warnings, news, and general setup information. The Accelerator Trouble Ticket is a web tool (PHP, MySQL, and email based), that allows for complete handling and sharing of all the accelerator information with the scientific, technical, and service staff; it also allows experimental users easy access via the World Wide Web. The architecture and implementation of the system and the ease of exportation and configuration for any accelerator complex is presented, along with examples of products and results obtained from the first year of operation at the DAFNE accelerator. |