MOBAU —  Status Reports 1   (10-Oct-11   10:30—12:15)
Chair: H. Shoaee, SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA

Paper	Title	Page
MOBAUST01	News from ITER Controls - A Status Report	1
	A. Wallander, L. Abadie, F. Di Maio, B. Evrard, J-M. Fourneron, H.K. Gulati, C. Hansalia, J.Y. Journeaux, C.S. Kim, W.-D. Klotz, K. Mahajan, P. Makijarvi, Y. Matsumoto, S. Pande, S. Simrock, D. Stepanov, N. Utzel, A. Vergara-Fernandez, A. Winter, I. Yonekawa ITER Organization, St. Paul lez Durance, France
	Construction of ITER has started at the Cadarache site in southern France. The first buildings are taking shape and more than 60 % of the in-kind procurement has been committed by the seven ITER member states (China, Europe, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and Unites States). The design and manufacturing of the main components of the machine is now underway all over the world. Each of these components comes with a local control system, which must be integrated in the central control system. The control group at ITER has developed two products to facilitate this; the plant control design handbook (PCDH) and the control, data access and communication (CODAC) core system. PCDH is a document which prescribes the technologies and methods to be used in developing the local control system and sets the rules applicable to the in-kind procurements. CODAC core system is a software package, distributed to all in-kind procurement developers, which implements the PCDH and facilitates the compliance of the local control system. In parallel, the ITER control group is proceeding with the design of the central control system to allow fully integrated and automated operation of ITER. In this paper we report on the progress of design, technology choices and discuss justifications of those choices. We also report on the results of some pilot projects aiming at validating the design and technologies.
	Slides MOBAUST01 [4.238 MB]
MOBAUST02	The ATLAS Detector Control System	5
	S. Schlenker, S. Arfaoui, S. Franz, O. Gutzwiller, C.A. Tsarouchas CERN, Geneva, Switzerland G. Aielli, F. Marchese Università di Roma II Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy G. Arabidze MSU, East Lansing, Michigan, USA E. Banaś, Z. Hajduk, J. Olszowska, E. Stanecka IFJ-PAN, Kraków, Poland T. Barillari, J. Habring, J. Huber MPI, Muenchen, Germany M. Bindi, A. Polini INFN-Bologna, Bologna, Italy H. Boterenbrood, R.G.K. Hart NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands H. Braun, D. Hirschbuehl, S. Kersten, K. Lantzsch Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany R. Brenner Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden D. Caforio, C. Sbarra Bologna University, Bologna, Italy S. Chekulaev TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vancouver, Canada S. D'Auria University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom M. Deliyergiyev, I. Mandić JSI, Ljubljana, Slovenia E. Ertel Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Institut für Physik, Mainz, Germany V. Filimonov, V. Khomutnikov, S. Kovalenko PNPI, Gatchina, Leningrad District, Russia V. Grassi SBU, Stony Brook, New York, USA J. Hartert, S. Zimmermann Albert-Ludwig Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany D. Hoffmann CPPM, Marseille, France G. Iakovidis, K. Karakostas, S. Leontsinis, E. Mountricha National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece P. Lafarguette Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France F. Marques Vinagre, G. Ribeiro, H.F. Santos LIP, Lisboa, Portugal T. Martin, P.D. Thompson Birmingham University, Birmingham, United Kingdom B. Mindur AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland J. Mitrevski SCIPP, Santa Cruz, California, USA K. Nagai University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences,, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan S. Nemecek Czech Republic Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic D. Oliveira Damazio, A. Poblaguev BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA P.W. Phillips STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom A. Robichaud-Veronneau DPNC, Genève, Switzerland A. Talyshev BINP, Novosibirsk, Russia G.F. Tartarelli Universita' degli Studi di Milano & INFN, Milano, Italy B.M. Wynne Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
	The ATLAS experiment is one of the multi-purpose experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), constructed to study elementary particle interactions in collisions of high-energy proton beams. Twelve different sub-detectors as well as the common experimental infrastructure are supervised by the Detector Control System (DCS). The DCS enables equipment supervision of all ATLAS sub-detectors by using a system of 140 server machines running the industrial SCADA product PVSS. This highly distributed system reads, processes and archives of the order of 106 operational parameters. Higher level control system layers based on the CERN JCOP framework allow for automatic control procedures, efficient error recognition and handling, manage the communication with external control systems such as the LHC controls, and provide a synchronization mechanism with the ATLAS physics data acquisition system. A web-based monitoring system allows accessing the DCS operator interface views and browse the conditions data archive worldwide with high availability. This contribution firstly describes the status of the ATLAS DCS and the experience gained during the LHC commissioning and the first physics data taking operation period. Secondly, the future evolution and maintenance constraints for the coming years and the LHC high luminosity upgrades are outlined.
	Slides MOBAUST02 [6.379 MB]
MOBAUST03	The MedAustron Accelerator Control System	9
	J. Gutleber, M. Benedikt CERN, Geneva, Switzerland A.B. Brett, A. Fabich, M. Marchhart, R. Moser, M. Thonke, C. Torcato de Matos EBG MedAustron, Wr. Neustadt, Austria J. Dedič Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia
	This paper presents the architecture and design of the MedAustron particle accelerator control system. The facility is currently under construction in Wr. Neustadt, Austria. The accelerator and its control system are designed at CERN. Accelerator control systems for ion therapy applications are characterized by rich sets of configuration data, real-time reconfiguration needs and high stability requirements. The machine is operated according to a pulse-to-pulse modulation scheme and beams are described in terms of ion type, energy, beam dimensions, intensity and spill length. An irradiation session for a patient consists of a few hundred accelerator cycles over a time period of about two minutes. No two cycles within a session are equal and the dead-time between two cycles must be kept low. The control system is based on a multi-tier architecture with the aim to achieve a clear separation between front-end devices and their controllers. Off-the-shelf technologies are deployed wherever possible. In-house developments cover a main timing system, a light-weight layer to standardize operation and communication of front-end controllers, the control of the power converters and a procedure programming framework for automating high-level control and data analysis tasks. In order to be able to roll out a system within a predictable schedule, an "off-shoring" project management process was adopted: A frame agreement with an integrator covers the provision of skilled personnel that specifies and builds components together with the core team.
	Slides MOBAUST03 [7.483 MB]
MOBAUST04	The RHIC and RHIC Pre-Injectors Controls Systems: Status and Plans	13
	K.A. Brown, Z. Altinbas, J. Aronson, S. Binello, I.G. Campbell, M.R. Costanzo, T. D'Ottavio, W. Eisele, A. Fernando, B. Frak, W. Fu, C. Ho, L.T. Hoff, J.P. Jamilkowski, P. Kankiya, R.A. Katz, S.A. Kennell, J.S. Laster, R.C. Lee, G.J. Marr, A. Marusic, R.J. Michnoff, J. Morris, S. Nemesure, B. Oerter, R.H. Olsen, J. Piacentino, G. Robert-Demolaize, V. Schoefer, R.F. Schoenfeld, S. Tepikian, C. Theisen, C.M. Zimmer 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. Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is one of the premier high energy and nuclear physics laboratories in the world and has been a leader in accelerator based physics research for well over half a century. For the past ten years experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have recorded data from collisions of heavy ions and polarized protons, leading to major discoveries in nuclear physics and the spin dynamics of quarks and gluons. BNL is also the site of one of the oldest alternating gradient synchrotrons, the AGS, which first operated in 1960. The accelerator controls systems for these instruments span multiple generations of technologies. In this report we will describe the current status of the Collider-Accelerator Department controls systems, which are used to control seven different accelerator facilities (from the LINAC and Tandem van de Graafs to RHIC) and multiple science programs (high energy nuclear physics, high energy polarized proton physics, NASA programs, isotope production, and multiple accelerator research and development projects). We will describe the status of current projects, such as the just completed Electron Beam Ion Source (EBIS), our R&D programs in superconducting RF and an Energy Recovery LINAC (ERL), innovations in feedback systems and bunched beam stochastic cooling at RHIC, and plans for future controls system developments.
	Slides MOBAUST04 [6.386 MB]
MOBAUST05	Control System Achievement at KEKB and Upgrade Design for SuperKEKB	17
	K. Furukawa, A. Akiyama, E. Kadokura, M. Kurashina, K. Mikawa, F. Miyahara, T.T. Nakamura, J.-I. Odagiri, M. Satoh, T. Suwada KEK, Ibaraki, Japan T. Kudou, S. Kusano, T. Nakamura, K. Yoshii MELCO SC, Tsukuba, Japan T. Okazaki EJIT, Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan
	SuperKEKB electron-positron asymmetric collider is being constructed after a decade of successful operation at KEKB for B physics research. KEKB completed all of the technical milestones, and had offered important insights into the flavor structure of elementary particles, especially the CP violation. The combination of scripting languages at the operation layer and EPICS at the equipment layer had led the control system to successful performance. The new control system in SuperKEKB will continue to employ those major features of KEKB, with additional technologies for the reliability and flexibility. The major structure will be maintained especially the online linkage to the simulation code and slow controls. However, as the design luminosity is 40-times higher than that of KEKB, several orders of magnitude higher performance will be required at certain area. At the same time more controllers with embedded technology will be installed to meet the limited resources.
	Slides MOBAUST05 [2.781 MB]
MOBAUST06	The LHCb Experiment Control System: on the Path to Full Automation	20
	C. Gaspar, F. Alessio, L.G. Cardoso, M. Frank, J.C. Garnier, R. Jacobsson, B. Jost, N. Neufeld, R. Schwemmer, E. van Herwijnen CERN, Geneva, Switzerland O. Callot LAL, Orsay, France B. Franek STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
	LHCb is a large experiment at the LHC accelerator. The experiment control system is in charge of the configuration, control and monitoring of the different sub-detectors and of all areas of the online system: the Detector Control System (DCS), sub-detector's voltages, cooling, temperatures, etc.; the Data Acquisition System (DAQ), and the Run-Control; the High Level Trigger (HLT), a farm of around 1500 PCs running trigger algorithms; etc. The building blocks of the control system are based on the PVSS SCADA System complemented by a control Framework developed in common for the 4 LHC experiments. This framework includes an "expert system" like tool called SMI++ which we use for the system automation. The full control system runs distributed over around 160 PCs and is logically organised in a hierarchical structure, each level being capable of supervising and synchronizing the objects below. The experiment's operations are now almost completely automated driven by a top-level object called Big-Brother which pilots all the experiment's standard procedures and the most common error-recovery procedures. Some examples of automated procedures are: powering the detector, acting on the Run-Control (Start/Stop Run, etc.) and moving the vertex detector in/out of the beam, all driven by the state of the accelerator or recovering from errors in the HLT farm. The architecture, tools and mechanisms used for the implementation as well as some operational examples will be shown.
	Slides MOBAUST06 [1.451 MB]