ICALEPCS2011 - List of Authors (Ranz, R.)

Paper

Title

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A Bottom-up Approach to Automatically Configured Tango Control Systems.

239

S. Rubio-Manrique, D.B. Beltrán, I. Costa, D.F.C. Fernández-Carreiras, J.V. Gigante, J. Klora, O. Matilla, R. Ranz, J. Ribas, O. Sanchez
CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

Alba maintains a central repository, so called "Cabling and Controls database" (CCDB), which keeps the inventory of equipment, cables, connections and their configuration and technical specifications. The valuable information kept in this MySQL database enables some tools to automatically create and configure Tango devices and other software components of the control systems of Accelerators, beamlines and laboratories. This paper describes the process involved in this automatic setup.

Poster MOPMN003 [0.922 MB]

WEPMU005

Personnel Protection, Equipment Protection and Fast Interlock Systems: Three Different Technologies to Provide Protection at Three Different Levels

1055

D.F.C. Fernández-Carreiras, D.B. Beltrán, J. Klora, O. Matilla, J. Moldes, R. Montaño, M. Niegowski, R. Ranz, A. Rubio, S. Rubio-Manrique
CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

The Personnel Safety System is based on PILZ PLCs, SIL3 compatible following the norm IEC 61508. It is independent from other subsystems and relies on a dedicated certification by PILZ first and then by TÜV. The Equipment Protection System uses B&R hardware and comprises more than 50 PLCs and more than 100 distributed I/0 modules installed inside the tunnel. The CPUs of the PLCs are interconnected by a deterministic network, supervising more than 7000 signals. Each Beamline has an independent system. The fast interlocks use the bidirectional fibers of the MRF timing system for distributing the interlocks in the microsecond range. Events are distributed by fiber optics for synchronizing more than 280 elements.

Poster WEPMU005 [32.473 MB]

FRBHMUST01

The Design of the Alba Control System: A Cost-Effective Distributed Hardware and Software Architecture.

1318

D.F.C. Fernández-Carreiras, D.B. Beltrán, T.M. Coutinho, G. Cuní, J. Klora, O. Matilla, R. Montaño, C. Pascual-Izarra, S. Pusó, R. Ranz, A. Rubio, S. Rubio-Manrique
CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

The control system of Alba is highly distributed from both hardware and software points of view. The hardware infrastructure for the control system includes in the order of 350 racks, 20000 cables and 6200 equipments. More than 150 diskless industrial computers, distributed in the service area and 30 multicore servers in the data center, manage several thousands of process variables. The software is, of course, as distributed as the hardware. It is also a success story of the Tango Collaboration where a complete software infrastructure is available "off the shelf". In addition Tango has been productively complemented with the powerful Sardana framework, a great effort in terms of development, which nowadays, several institutes benefit from. The whole installation has been coordinated from the beginning with a complete cabling and equipment database, where all the equipment, cables, connectors are described and inventoried. The so called "cabling database" is core of the installation. The equipments and cables are defined there. The basic configurations of the hardware like MAC and IP addresses, DNS names, etc. are also gathered in this database, allowing the network communication files and declaration of variables in the PLCs to be created automatically. This paper explains the design and the architecture of the control system, describes the tools and justifies the choices made. Furthermore, it presents and analyzes the figures regarding cost and performances.

Slides FRBHMUST01 [4.616 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
MOPMN003	A Bottom-up Approach to Automatically Configured Tango Control Systems.	239
	S. Rubio-Manrique, D.B. Beltrán, I. Costa, D.F.C. Fernández-Carreiras, J.V. Gigante, J. Klora, O. Matilla, R. Ranz, J. Ribas, O. Sanchez CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
	Alba maintains a central repository, so called "Cabling and Controls database" (CCDB), which keeps the inventory of equipment, cables, connections and their configuration and technical specifications. The valuable information kept in this MySQL database enables some tools to automatically create and configure Tango devices and other software components of the control systems of Accelerators, beamlines and laboratories. This paper describes the process involved in this automatic setup.
	Poster MOPMN003 [0.922 MB]

WEPMU005	Personnel Protection, Equipment Protection and Fast Interlock Systems: Three Different Technologies to Provide Protection at Three Different Levels	1055
	D.F.C. Fernández-Carreiras, D.B. Beltrán, J. Klora, O. Matilla, J. Moldes, R. Montaño, M. Niegowski, R. Ranz, A. Rubio, S. Rubio-Manrique CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
	The Personnel Safety System is based on PILZ PLCs, SIL3 compatible following the norm IEC 61508. It is independent from other subsystems and relies on a dedicated certification by PILZ first and then by TÜV. The Equipment Protection System uses B&R hardware and comprises more than 50 PLCs and more than 100 distributed I/0 modules installed inside the tunnel. The CPUs of the PLCs are interconnected by a deterministic network, supervising more than 7000 signals. Each Beamline has an independent system. The fast interlocks use the bidirectional fibers of the MRF timing system for distributing the interlocks in the microsecond range. Events are distributed by fiber optics for synchronizing more than 280 elements.
	Poster WEPMU005 [32.473 MB]

FRBHMUST01	The Design of the Alba Control System: A Cost-Effective Distributed Hardware and Software Architecture.	1318
	D.F.C. Fernández-Carreiras, D.B. Beltrán, T.M. Coutinho, G. Cuní, J. Klora, O. Matilla, R. Montaño, C. Pascual-Izarra, S. Pusó, R. Ranz, A. Rubio, S. Rubio-Manrique CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
	The control system of Alba is highly distributed from both hardware and software points of view. The hardware infrastructure for the control system includes in the order of 350 racks, 20000 cables and 6200 equipments. More than 150 diskless industrial computers, distributed in the service area and 30 multicore servers in the data center, manage several thousands of process variables. The software is, of course, as distributed as the hardware. It is also a success story of the Tango Collaboration where a complete software infrastructure is available "off the shelf". In addition Tango has been productively complemented with the powerful Sardana framework, a great effort in terms of development, which nowadays, several institutes benefit from. The whole installation has been coordinated from the beginning with a complete cabling and equipment database, where all the equipment, cables, connectors are described and inventoried. The so called "cabling database" is core of the installation. The equipments and cables are defined there. The basic configurations of the hardware like MAC and IP addresses, DNS names, etc. are also gathered in this database, allowing the network communication files and declaration of variables in the PLCs to be created automatically. This paper explains the design and the architecture of the control system, describes the tools and justifies the choices made. Furthermore, it presents and analyzes the figures regarding cost and performances.
	Slides FRBHMUST01 [4.616 MB]