ICALEPCS2021 - Classification: User Interfaces and User eXperience (UX)

Paper	Title	Page
THAR01	MINT, an ITER Tool for Interactive Visualization of Data	809
	L. Abadie, G. Carannante, I. Nunes, J. Panchumarti, S.D. Pinches, S. Simrock, M. Tsalas ITER Organization, St. Paul lez Durance, France S.S. Kalsi Tata Consultancy Services, Pune, India D.R. Makowski, P. Mazur, P. Perek TUL-DMCS, Łódź, Poland A. Neto F4E, Barcelona, Spain
	ITER will produce large volumes of data that need to be visualized and analyzed. This paper describes the development of a graphical data visualization and exploration tool, MINT (Make Informative and Nice Trends), for plant engineers, operators and physicists. It describes the early development phase from requirements capture to first release covering the mistakes, lessons learnt and future steps. The requirements were collected by interviewing the various stakeholders. The initial neglect of the architecture and user-friendliness turned out to be key points when developing such a tool for a project with a long lifetime like ITER. Modular architecture and clear definition of generic interfaces (abstraction layer) is crucial for such a long lifetime project and makes it ready for future adaptations to new plotting, processing and GUI libraries. The MINT application is based upon the development of an independent plotting library, which acts as a wrapper to the underlying graphical library. This allows scientists and engineers to develop their own specific tools, which are immune to changes of graphical library. The development based on Python uses Qt5 as the visual backend.
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DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-THAR01
About •	Received ※ 08 October 2021 Revised ※ 22 October 2021 Accepted ※ 17 November 2021 Issue date ※ 23 February 2022
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THAR02	Daiquiri: A Web Based User Interface Framework for Beamline Control and Data Acquisition
	S. Fisher, M. Cotte, W. De Nolf, J.M. Meyer, M. Oskarsson, V. Valls ESRF, Grenoble, France
	Daiquiri is a web based User Interface (UI) framework for control system monitoring and data acquisition. It provides simple, intuitive, and responsive interfaces to control and monitor hardware, launch acquisition sequences, and manage associated metadata. Daiquiri concerns itself only with the UI layer, it does not provide a scan engine or controls system but can be easily integrated with existing systems. Daiquiri is implemented with a traditional client / server methodology with the intention of producing a generic extensible framework for acquisition. The server is implemented in Python 3 and provides a REST API and SocketIO service for real-time feedback. The client is implemented in javascript es6 making use of the popular front end framework React along with Redux. Daiquiri is currently deployed on the scanning X-ray microscope beamline ID21, as well as the BioSAXS beamline BM29 [1], and will be extended to BM23, ID24, ID27, and BM18. In the future daiquiri will be the standard interface by which users and scientists interact with the controls system on beamlines at ESRF. Further information can be found at https://ui.gitlab-pages.esrf.fr/daiquiri-landing [1] M. Oskarsson et al., From MXCuBE3 to BSXCuBE3 a Web Application for BioSAXS Experiment Control. JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland (2020), doi:10.18429/jacow-icalepcs2019-wepha115.
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THAR03	Automated Scheduler Software Based on Metro UI Design for MACE Telescope	814
	M. Punna, S. Mohanan, P. Sridharan BARC, Trombay, Mumbai, India P. Chandra, S.V. Godambe Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
	MACE Scheduler software generates automated schedule for the observations of preloaded high energy gamma-ray sources. The paper presents the design of MACE Scheduler software covering; source rise/set time calculation algorithms; auto and manual schedule generation; various data visualizations provided for schedule and source visibility reports. The schedule generation for a specific period is automated using a filter workflow. The sources are selected for scheduling by processing the sources through a series of customizable user defined filters; source visibility filter, priority filter, priority resolution filter. The workflow provides flexibility to apply any user tailored filter criteria that can be loaded dynamically using XML schema. Loosely coupled design allowed decoupling the astronomical timing calculation algorithms from schedule preparation workflow. Scheduler provides metro UI based interface for source filtering workflow generating auto-schedule, updating the generated schedules. Tree-map visualization helped to represent hierarchical multi-dimensional schedule information for the selected date range. WPF flat UI control templates focused more on content than chrome
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About •	Received ※ 09 October 2021 Revised ※ 19 October 2021 Accepted ※ 21 November 2021 Issue date ※ 03 March 2022
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THPV001	Supervisory System for the Sirius Scientific Facilities	858
	L.C. Arruda, G.T. Barreto, M.P. Calcanha, H.F. Canova, J.V.B. Franca LNLS, Campinas, Brazil
	Funding: Work supported by the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) A general supervisory system for the scientific facilities is under development at Sirius, the Brazilian 4th generation synchrotron light source. The data generated by different classes of equipment are generally available via EPICS or industrial protocols such as OPC-UA provided by commercial automation systems. However, as the number of beamlines and laboratories expands, the effort to properly gather, display and manage this data also scales up. For this reason, an aggregating supervisory system is proposed to monitor the systems: power distribution, personal safety, beamline components, cryogenic fluids; mechanical utilities, air conditioning, among others. This work presents the overall system architecture, functionalities, and some user interfaces.
	Poster THPV001 [1.351 MB]
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About •	Received ※ 09 October 2021 Revised ※ 19 October 2021 Accepted ※ 21 November 2021 Issue date ※ 14 February 2022
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THPV004	Open-Hardware Knob System for Acceleration Control Operations	861
	E. Munaron, M. Montis, L. Pranovi INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD), Italy
	Nowadays technologies in LINAc facilities brought the common Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) to be more aligned to the standards coming from the information technology (IT) and the operators started to interact to the apparatus with the common computers’ instruments: mouse and keyboard. This approach has both pro and cons. In order to minimize the cons and with the idea of providing an alternative to interact with HMIs, we tried to design and realize an open-hardware knob system solution.
	Poster THPV004 [2.761 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-THPV004
About •	Received ※ 09 October 2021 Revised ※ 19 October 2021 Accepted ※ 21 November 2021 Issue date ※ 28 December 2021
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THPV005	Virtual Reality and Control Systems: How a 3D System Looks Like	864
	L. Pranovi, M. Montis INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD), Italy
	Virtual Reality (VR) technology and its derivatives are mature enough to be used in environments like a nuclear research laboratory, to provide useful tools and procedures to optimize the tasks of developers and operators. Preliminary tests were performed [] to understand the feasibility of this technology applied to a nuclear physics laboratory with promising feedback. Due to the fact this technology is rapidly diffusing in several different professional heterogeneous environments, such as medicine, architecture, the military and industry, we tried to evaluate the impact coming from a new kind of Human-Machine Interface based on VR. L.Pranovi et al., ’Vr as a Service: Use of Virtual Reality in a Nuclear Accelerator Facility’, ICALEPCS 2019, New York, NY, USA
	Poster THPV005 [2.374 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-THPV005
About •	Received ※ 10 October 2021 Accepted ※ 21 November 2021 Issue date ※ 19 February 2022
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THPV006	Design of Real-Time Alarm System for CAFe	867
	N. Xie, Y.H. Guo, B.J. Wang, R. Wang IMP/CAS, Lanzhou, People’s Republic of China
	In accelerator control, the alarm system is a very im-portant real-time monitoring and control system. In order to find specific failures of accelerator-related equipment in time, improve the high availability of the equipment, and ensure the long-term operation of the accelerator. An accelerator alarm system based on Kafka was designed and built on the CAFe. The system uses Phoebus for ar-chitecture deployment. Kafka is used as the streaming platform of the alarm system, which effectively improves the throughput of the system and realizes real-time alarms. In order to realize the function of remote monitor-ing of data in the central control room, CS-Studio is used to draw the opi interface to deploy to the enterprise WeChat platform to realize remote data monitoring. This system greatly improves the response speed of fault han-dling and saves a lot of valuable time for accelerator fault handling.
	Poster THPV006 [0.779 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-THPV006
About •	Received ※ 09 October 2021 Revised ※ 20 October 2021 Accepted ※ 04 February 2022 Issue date ※ 28 February 2022
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THPV007	Fast Creation of Control and Monitor Graphical User Interface for PEPC of Laser Fusion Facility Based on ICSFF	871
	L. Li, J. Luo, Z. Ni CAEP, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China
	Plasma electrode Pockels cell (PEPC) is the key unit of the multi-pass amplify system in laser fusion facility, whether the PEPC is effective determined the success rate of the facility experiment directly. The operator needs to conduct remote control and monitor during the facility is running, also can automatically judge whether the pulse discharge waveform is regular online. We have designed a software framework (ICSFF) that loads all GUI widget elements related to control and monitor into board through plug-ins, and then by setting the respective properties, data source and built-in script of each widget achieve patterns like point control, flow control and other complex combined control, can also achieve data acquisition and varied display effects. It allows the operator drag and drop widget freely and configure the widget properties through the interface in a non-programming mode to quickly build the GUI they need. It not only apply to PEPC in facility, but also to other system in the same facility. ICSFF supports Tango control system right now, and more control systems will be supported in the future.
	Poster THPV007 [1.577 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-THPV007
About •	Received ※ 10 October 2021 Revised ※ 22 October 2021 Accepted ※ 21 November 2021 Issue date ※ 28 February 2022
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THPV008	Signal metadata management interface for Spring-8
	M. Celary S2Innovation, Kraków, Poland K. Uchida COSYLAB Japan, Ibaraki, Japan
	The system for handling the synchrotron metadata registration process at Spring 8 was developed by Cosylab/S2Innovation. Web application was based on Tornado, a Python framework which was chosen for it’s support for non-blocking network I/O, making it ideal for long polling and enabling it to scale to large number of open connections. Main functionalities that were implemented include: signal metadata check, signal registration, database backup/restore and signal registration history administration. The paper presents result of the project and challenges faced during it’s realization.
	Poster THPV008 [1.354 MB]
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THPV009	Web Gui Development and Integration in Libera Instrumentation	875
	D. Bisiach, M. Cargnelutti, P. Leban, P. Paglovec, L. Rahne, M. Škabar, A. Vigali I-Tech, Solkan, Slovenia
	During the past 5 years, Instrumentation Technologies expanded and added to the embedded OS running on Libera instruments (beam position instrumentation, LLRF) a lot of data access interfaces to allow faster access to the signals retrieved by the instrument. Some of the access interfaces are strictly related to the user environment Machine control system (Epics/Tango), and others related to the user software preferences (Matlab/Python). In the last years, the requirement for easier data streaming was raised to allow easier data access using PC and mobile phones through a web browser. This paper aims to present the development of the web backend server and the realization of a web frontend capable to process the data retrieved by the instrument. A use-case will be presented, the realization of the Libera Current Meter Web GUI as a first development example of a Web GUI interface for a Libera instrument and the starting point for the Web GUI pipeline integration on other instruments. The HTTP access interface will become in the next years a standard in data access for Libera instrumentation for quick testing/diagnostics and will allow the final user to customize it autonomously.
	Poster THPV009 [0.729 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-THPV009
About •	Received ※ 08 October 2021 Accepted ※ 11 February 2022 Issue date ※ 11 March 2022
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THPV010	Scaling Up the ALBA Cabling Database and Plans to Turn into an Asset Management System	878
	I. Costa, A. Camps Gimenez, R. Cazorla, T. Fernández Maltas, D. Salvat ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
	The "Cabling and Controls Database" (CCDB) is a central repository where the different teams of ALBA manage the information of installed racks, equipment, cables and connectors, and their connections and technical specifications. ALBA has modernized this web application for sustainability reasons and fit new needs detected throughout the last years of operation in our facility. The application has been linked to Jira to allow tracking problems in specific installed equipment or locations. In addition, it also connects to the ALBA Inventory Pools application, the warehouse management system, where the stock of physical equipment and components are maintained to get information on the life cycle of the different devices. These new features, integrated with proprietary products like Jira and Insight, aim to become ALBA’s asset management system. This paper aims to describe the main features of the recent application upgrade, currently in continuous development.
	Poster THPV010 [1.145 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-THPV010
About •	Received ※ 10 October 2021 Accepted ※ 21 November 2021 Issue date ※ 05 January 2022
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THPV011	Notifications with Native Mobile Application	883
	B. Bertrand, J. Forsberg MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden E. Laface, G. Weiss ESS, Lund, Sweden
	Notifications are an essential part of any control system. Many people want to be notified of specific events. There are several ways to send notifications: SMS, e-mails or messaging applications like Slack and Telegram are some common ones. Those solutions frequently require some central configuration to record who will receive messages, which is difficult to maintain. ESS developed a native mobile application, both for iOS and Android, to manage notifications. The application allows the users to subscribe to the topics they are interested in, removing the need for a central configuration. A web server is used as gateway to send all notifications following Apple and Google protocols. This server exposes a REST API that is used both by clients to send messages and mobile applications to retrieve and manage those messages. This paper will detail the technical implementation as well as the lessons learnt from this approach.
	Poster THPV011 [6.079 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-THPV011
About •	Received ※ 09 October 2021 Accepted ※ 21 November 2021 Issue date ※ 05 January 2022
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THPV012	LHC Collimation Controls System for Run III Operation	888
	G. Azzopardi, M. Di Castro, S. Redaelli, B. Salvachua, M. Solfaroli Camillocci CERN, Geneva, Switzerland G. Valentino University of Malta, Information and Communication Technology, Msida, Malta
	The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collimation system is designed to protect the machine against unavoidable beam losses. The collimation system for the LHC Run 3, starting in 2022, consists of more than 100 movable collimators located along the 27 km long ring and in the transfer lines. The cleaning performance and machine protection role of the system critically depend on the accurate positioning of the collimator jaws. The collimation control system in place enables remote control and appropriate diagnostics of the relevant parameters. This ensures that the collimators dynamically follow optimum settings in all phases of the LHC operational cycle. In this paper, an overview of the top-level software tools available for collimation control from the control room is given. These tools range from collimator alignment applications to generation tools for collimator settings, as well as collimator scans, settings checks and machine protection sequences. Amongst these tools the key upgrades and newly introduced tools for the Run 3 are presented.
	Poster THPV012 [5.521 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-THPV012
About •	Received ※ 07 October 2021 Revised ※ 25 October 2021 Accepted ※ 16 December 2021 Issue date ※ 01 March 2022
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THPV013	WRAP - A Web-Based Rapid Application Development Framework for CERN’s Controls Infrastructure	894
	E. Galatas, A. Asko, E. Matli, C. Roderick CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	To ensure stable operation of CERN’s accelerator complex, many Devices need to be controlled. To meet this need, over 500 custom Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) have been developed using Java Swing, Java FX, NetBeans, Eclipse SWT, etc. These represent a high maintenance cost, particularly considering the global evolution of the GUI technology landscape. The new Web-based Rapid Application Platform (WRAP) provides a centralized, zero-code, drag-n-drop means of GUI creation. It aims to replace a significant percentage of existing GUIs and ease new developments. Integration with the Controls Configuration Service (CCS) provides rich infrastructure metadata to support application configuration, whilst following the associated equipment lifecycle (e.g. renames, upgrades, dismantling). Leveraging the CERN Accelerator Logging Service (NXCALS) and the Unified Controls Acquisition and Processing (UCAP) platform, allows WRAP users to respectively, create GUIs showing historical data, and interface with complex data-stream processing. The plugin architecture will allow teams to further extend the tool as needed. This paper describes the WRAP architecture, design, status, and outlook.
	Poster THPV013 [1.564 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-THPV013
About •	Received ※ 09 October 2021 Revised ※ 25 October 2021 Accepted ※ 10 December 2021 Issue date ※ 28 February 2022
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THPV014	Adopting PyQt for Beam Instrumentation GUI Development at CERN	899
	S. Zanzottera, S. Jackson, S. Jensen CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	As Java GUI toolkits become deprecated, the Beam Instrumentation (BI)group at CERN has investigated alternatives and selected PyQt as one of the suitable technologies for future GUIs, in accordance with the paper presented at ICALEPCS19. This paper presents tools created, or adapted, to seamlessly integrate future PyQt GUI development alongside current Java oriented workflows and the controls environment. This includes (a) creating a project template and a GUI management tool to ease and standardize our development process, (b) rewriting our previously Java-centric Expert GUI Launcher to be language-agnostic and (c) porting a selection of operational GUIs from Java to PyQt, to test the feasibility of the development process and identify bottlenecks. To conclude, the challenges we anticipate for the BI GUI developer community in adopting this new technology are also discussed.
	Poster THPV014 [1.451 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-THPV014
About •	Received ※ 10 October 2021 Accepted ※ 29 November 2021 Issue date ※ 23 February 2022
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THPV015	New Timing Sequencer Application in Python with Qt - Development Workflow and Lessons Learnt	904
	Zs. Kovari, G. Kruk CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
	PyQt is a Python binding for the popular Qt framework for the development of desktop applications. By using PyQt one can leverage Qt’s aspects to implement modern, intuitive, and cross-platform applications while benefiting from Python’s flexibility. Recently, we successfully used PyQt 5 to renovate the Graphical User Interface (GUI) used to control the CERN accelerator timing system. The GUI application interfaces with a Java-based service behind the scenes. In this paper we introduce the generic architecture used for this project, our development workflow as well as the challenges and lessons we learned from using Python with Qt. We present our approach to delivering an operational application with a particular focus on testing, quality assurance, and continuous integration.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-THPV015
About •	Received ※ 07 October 2021 Accepted ※ 06 February 2022 Issue date ※ 11 March 2022
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THPV016	Developing an Alarm Philosophy for the EPICS Control System at ISIS
	S.A. Medley, I.D. Finch, S.M. Malinowski, M. Romanovschi STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
	The ISIS Muon and Neutron Source control system alarms have been growing organically during the 30+ years of ISIS’s operation. The upcoming migration from the Vista Control Systems product Vsystem to EPICS provides the right opportunity and framework for a ‘fresh start’ to review and rationalise the alarms. Internationally recognised good engineering practice is defined in the IEC-62682 / ISA 18.2 Standards for the Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industries, which describe the Alarm Management Lifecycle: an ongoing process of continuous improvement to be used to manage alarms in control systems. The Lifecycle begins with the development of an Alarm Philosophy, which establishes the basic definitions, principles and processes to design, implement and maintain an alarm system. The development of an Alarm Philosophy for the new EPICS Control system at ISIS is outlined, setting out the basis for the identification, classification and prioritisation of alarms. The challenges of managing the transition of the alarms from Vsystem to EPICS are discussed, including the outcome of initial work applying the Alarm Philosophy to rationalising the existing Vsystem alarms.
	Poster THPV016 [2.225 MB]
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THPV017	A cloud based toolbox for accelerator controls interfaces and optimization
	J.P. Edelen, E.G. Carlin, M.V. Keilman, P. Moeller, R. Nagler RadiaSoft LLC, Boulder, Colorado, USA
	Funding: This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under Award Number DE-SC0019682 Modern particle accelerator facilities generate large amounts of data and face increasing demands on their operational performance. As the demand on accelerator operations increases so does the need for automated tuning algorithms and control to maximize uptime with reduced operator intervention. Existing tools are insufficient to meet the broad demands on controls, visualization, and analysis. We have developed a cloud based toolbox featuring a generic virtual accelerator control room for the development of automated tuning algorithms and the analysis of large complex datasets. This framework utilizes tracking codes combined with with algorithms for machine drift, low-level control systems, and other complications to create realistic models of accelerators. These models are directly interfaced with control toolboxes allowing for rapid prototyping of tuning algorithms. In this paper, we will provide an overview of our interface and demonstrate its utility for building beamline controls displays directly from accelerator simulation lattices. We will also demonstrate the use of our interface for testing online optimization and control algorithms.
	Poster THPV017 [2.190 MB]
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THPV018	Infrastructure-independent Device Control
	A. Sukhanov, J.P. Jamilkowski BNL, Upton, New York, USA
	Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-SC0012704 with the U.S. Department of Energy. In modern accelerator control systems there is often a need for controlling devices which have been developed with interface to a different control infrastructure. For example, the future EIC collider will have mixture of EPICS-controlled and ADO-controlled devices. In this paper we describe the control tools and middle-level interface which allows to control the devices independently of their dedicated architecture. The tools are implemented in python and currently they include a pypet, an imageViewer, and a pvplot. The pypet a spreadsheet-based advanced parameter editing tool which covers functionality of the EDM, MEDM and PET. The imageViewer is interactive image analysis tool, supporting AreaDetector, USB and ADO - controlled cameras. The pvplot is simple parameter plotting tool. The tools are operational at RHIC collider and they provide control for devices from various infrastructures (ADO, EPICS and liteServer).
	Poster THPV018 [0.720 MB]
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FRAR01	Taranta, the No-Code Web Dashboard in Production	1017
	M. Eguiraun, A. Amjad, J. Forsberg, V. Hardion, Y.L. Li, L.M. Nguyen, J.T.K. Rosenqvist, M. Saad MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden V. Alberti INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy M. Canzari INAF - OAAB, Teramo, Italy H.R. Ribeiro Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências, Porto, Portugal
	The remote control and monitoring of accelerators and experimental setup has become an essential enabler when remote work has become the norm for the last 2 years. Unlike the desktop user interfaces which have been developed for the use of physical workstations, Web application are naturally accessible remotely via the ubiquitous web browsers. On the other hand, Web technology development need a specific knowledge which has yet to be disseminate in the control system engineering. And desktop frameworks still have the benefit of rapid and easy development even for the non-specialist. Taranta Suite is a collection of web applications jointly developed by MAX IV Laboratory and the SKA Organization, for the Tango Control System. Totally in line with the ’no-code’ trend, truly little knowledge of web technologies is needed. An operator can create a graphical user interface on-the-fly and then, can share instantly this application. Authentication and authorization ensure to give the right level access to the users. This paper will describe the system, the React and GQL implementation and the first usage at the different facilities.
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DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-FRAR01
About •	Received ※ 10 October 2021 Revised ※ 08 November 2021 Accepted ※ 20 November 2021 Issue date ※ 11 January 2022
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FRAR02	canone3: A New Service and Development Framework for the Web and Platform Independent Applications*	1023
	G. Strangolino, L. Zambon Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy
	Funding: * inspiration by Alessio Igor Bogani, Elettra, Trieste, Italy On the wake of former web interfaces developed at ELETTRA as well as in other institutes, the service and development framework for the web and platform independent applications named PUMA has been substantially enhanced and rewritten, with the additional objectives of high availability, scalability, load balancing, responsiveness and customization. Thorough analysis of Websocket limits led to an SSE based server technology relying on channels (Nchan over NGINX) to deliver the events to the clients. The development of the latter is supported by JQuery, Bootstrap, D3js, SVG and QT and helps build interfaces ranging from mobile to dashboard. Ultimate developments led to successful load balancing and failover actions, owing to the joint cooperation of a dedicated service supervisor and the NGINX upstream module.
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DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-FRAR02
About •	Received ※ 08 October 2021 Revised ※ 10 November 2021 Accepted ※ 21 December 2021 Issue date ※ 01 March 2022
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FRAR03	A Major Update of Web Based Development Toolkit for Control System of Large-Scale Physics Experiment Device	1029
	X.H. Xie, Y.X. Jiang, W. Wang, F.Y. Wu HUST, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China S. Li, B. Rao, Y. Yang, M. Zhang, P.L. Zhang, W. Zheng Huazhong University of Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology,, Hubei, People’s Republic of China
	Funding: Most from Ministry of Science and Technology of the people’s Republic of China The deployment of the control system called CODAC (Control, Data Access and Communications) is necessary for the operation of large-scale experimental facilities. CFET (Control system framework for experimental devic-es toolkit) is a flexible SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) software tool, which is used for the construction of a CODAC. CFET is fully based on open web technologies, it is easy to integrate all kinds of systems and devices into CFET. This paper has undergone a major iteration of CFET. HMI has been redesigned and implemented. The control engineer can use a web based WYSIWYG HMI editor to compose the HMI. In CFET, InfluxDB has been integrated. It is used to store the engineering data, and also visualize the data on the website. Docker based microservices architecture has been designed, putting CFET and dependent packages into a lightweight container. At present, CFET has been used in the CO-DAC system of J-TEXT tokamak and HUST Field-Reversed Configuration facility.
	Slides FRAR03 [3.726 MB]
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About •	Received ※ 09 October 2021 Revised ※ 26 October 2021 Accepted ※ 21 December 2021 Issue date ※ 25 February 2022
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FRAR04	Phoebus Olog
	K. Shroff BNL, Upton, New York, USA G. Weiss ESS, Lund, Sweden
	Phoebus Olog is an online logbook used for recording operational and experimental events by users or other applications. The Phoebus Olog service is an evolution of the Olog web service. It uses modern nosql data stores like mondoDB and elastic which provide horizontal scalability, improved performance, and complex querying functionality like fuzzy searches. The improvements of the server side are accompanied with several new UI clients; smartphone apps for convenient viewing of logs, logbook client in Phoebus CS-Studio which provides integration with various other applications like alarms, OPI, etc and a web application.
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MINT, an ITER Tool for Interactive Visualization of Data

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L. Abadie, G. Carannante, I. Nunes, J. Panchumarti, S.D. Pinches, S. Simrock, M. Tsalas
ITER Organization, St. Paul lez Durance, France
S.S. Kalsi
Tata Consultancy Services, Pune, India
D.R. Makowski, P. Mazur, P. Perek
TUL-DMCS, Łódź, Poland
A. Neto
F4E, Barcelona, Spain

ITER will produce large volumes of data that need to be visualized and analyzed. This paper describes the development of a graphical data visualization and exploration tool, MINT (Make Informative and Nice Trends), for plant engineers, operators and physicists. It describes the early development phase from requirements capture to first release covering the mistakes, lessons learnt and future steps. The requirements were collected by interviewing the various stakeholders. The initial neglect of the architecture and user-friendliness turned out to be key points when developing such a tool for a project with a long lifetime like ITER. Modular architecture and clear definition of generic interfaces (abstraction layer) is crucial for such a long lifetime project and makes it ready for future adaptations to new plotting, processing and GUI libraries. The MINT application is based upon the development of an independent plotting library, which acts as a wrapper to the underlying graphical library. This allows scientists and engineers to develop their own specific tools, which are immune to changes of graphical library. The development based on Python uses Qt5 as the visual backend.

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Daiquiri: A Web Based User Interface Framework for Beamline Control and Data Acquisition

S. Fisher, M. Cotte, W. De Nolf, J.M. Meyer, M. Oskarsson, V. Valls
ESRF, Grenoble, France

Daiquiri is a web based User Interface (UI) framework for control system monitoring and data acquisition. It provides simple, intuitive, and responsive interfaces to control and monitor hardware, launch acquisition sequences, and manage associated metadata. Daiquiri concerns itself only with the UI layer, it does not provide a scan engine or controls system but can be easily integrated with existing systems. Daiquiri is implemented with a traditional client / server methodology with the intention of producing a generic extensible framework for acquisition. The server is implemented in Python 3 and provides a REST API and SocketIO service for real-time feedback. The client is implemented in javascript es6 making use of the popular front end framework React along with Redux. Daiquiri is currently deployed on the scanning X-ray microscope beamline ID21, as well as the BioSAXS beamline BM29 [1], and will be extended to BM23, ID24, ID27, and BM18. In the future daiquiri will be the standard interface by which users and scientists interact with the controls system on beamlines at ESRF. Further information can be found at https://ui.gitlab-pages.esrf.fr/daiquiri-landing
[1] M. Oskarsson et al., From MXCuBE3 to BSXCuBE3 a Web Application for BioSAXS Experiment Control. JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland (2020), doi:10.18429/jacow-icalepcs2019-wepha115.

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THAR03

Automated Scheduler Software Based on Metro UI Design for MACE Telescope

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M. Punna, S. Mohanan, P. Sridharan
BARC, Trombay, Mumbai, India
P. Chandra, S.V. Godambe
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India

MACE Scheduler software generates automated schedule for the observations of preloaded high energy gamma-ray sources. The paper presents the design of MACE Scheduler software covering; source rise/set time calculation algorithms; auto and manual schedule generation; various data visualizations provided for schedule and source visibility reports. The schedule generation for a specific period is automated using a filter workflow. The sources are selected for scheduling by processing the sources through a series of customizable user defined filters; source visibility filter, priority filter, priority resolution filter. The workflow provides flexibility to apply any user tailored filter criteria that can be loaded dynamically using XML schema. Loosely coupled design allowed decoupling the astronomical timing calculation algorithms from schedule preparation workflow. Scheduler provides metro UI based interface for source filtering workflow generating auto-schedule, updating the generated schedules. Tree-map visualization helped to represent hierarchical multi-dimensional schedule information for the selected date range. WPF flat UI control templates focused more on content than chrome

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THPV001

Supervisory System for the Sirius Scientific Facilities

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L.C. Arruda, G.T. Barreto, M.P. Calcanha, H.F. Canova, J.V.B. Franca
LNLS, Campinas, Brazil

Funding: Work supported by the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI)
A general supervisory system for the scientific facilities is under development at Sirius, the Brazilian 4th generation synchrotron light source. The data generated by different classes of equipment are generally available via EPICS or industrial protocols such as OPC-UA provided by commercial automation systems. However, as the number of beamlines and laboratories expands, the effort to properly gather, display and manage this data also scales up. For this reason, an aggregating supervisory system is proposed to monitor the systems: power distribution, personal safety, beamline components, cryogenic fluids; mechanical utilities, air conditioning, among others. This work presents the overall system architecture, functionalities, and some user interfaces.

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THPV004

Open-Hardware Knob System for Acceleration Control Operations

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E. Munaron, M. Montis, L. Pranovi
INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD), Italy

Nowadays technologies in LINAc facilities brought the common Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) to be more aligned to the standards coming from the information technology (IT) and the operators started to interact to the apparatus with the common computers’ instruments: mouse and keyboard. This approach has both pro and cons. In order to minimize the cons and with the idea of providing an alternative to interact with HMIs, we tried to design and realize an open-hardware knob system solution.

Poster THPV004 [2.761 MB]

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THPV005

Virtual Reality and Control Systems: How a 3D System Looks Like

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L. Pranovi, M. Montis
INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD), Italy

Virtual Reality (VR) technology and its derivatives are mature enough to be used in environments like a nuclear research laboratory, to provide useful tools and procedures to optimize the tasks of developers and operators. Preliminary tests were performed [*] to understand the feasibility of this technology applied to a nuclear physics laboratory with promising feedback. Due to the fact this technology is rapidly diffusing in several different professional heterogeneous environments, such as medicine, architecture, the military and industry, we tried to evaluate the impact coming from a new kind of Human-Machine Interface based on VR.
* L.Pranovi et al., ’Vr as a Service: Use of Virtual Reality in a Nuclear Accelerator Facility’, ICALEPCS 2019, New York, NY, USA

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THPV006

Design of Real-Time Alarm System for CAFe

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N. Xie, Y.H. Guo, B.J. Wang, R. Wang
IMP/CAS, Lanzhou, People’s Republic of China

In accelerator control, the alarm system is a very im-portant real-time monitoring and control system. In order to find specific failures of accelerator-related equipment in time, improve the high availability of the equipment, and ensure the long-term operation of the accelerator. An accelerator alarm system based on Kafka was designed and built on the CAFe. The system uses Phoebus for ar-chitecture deployment. Kafka is used as the streaming platform of the alarm system, which effectively improves the throughput of the system and realizes real-time alarms. In order to realize the function of remote monitor-ing of data in the central control room, CS-Studio is used to draw the opi interface to deploy to the enterprise WeChat platform to realize remote data monitoring. This system greatly improves the response speed of fault han-dling and saves a lot of valuable time for accelerator fault handling.

Poster THPV006 [0.779 MB]

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THPV007

Fast Creation of Control and Monitor Graphical User Interface for PEPC of Laser Fusion Facility Based on ICSFF

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L. Li, J. Luo, Z. Ni
CAEP, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China

Plasma electrode Pockels cell (PEPC) is the key unit of the multi-pass amplify system in laser fusion facility, whether the PEPC is effective determined the success rate of the facility experiment directly. The operator needs to conduct remote control and monitor during the facility is running, also can automatically judge whether the pulse discharge waveform is regular online. We have designed a software framework (ICSFF) that loads all GUI widget elements related to control and monitor into board through plug-ins, and then by setting the respective properties, data source and built-in script of each widget achieve patterns like point control, flow control and other complex combined control, can also achieve data acquisition and varied display effects. It allows the operator drag and drop widget freely and configure the widget properties through the interface in a non-programming mode to quickly build the GUI they need. It not only apply to PEPC in facility, but also to other system in the same facility. ICSFF supports Tango control system right now, and more control systems will be supported in the future.

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THPV008

Signal metadata management interface for Spring-8

M. Celary
S2Innovation, Kraków, Poland
K. Uchida
COSYLAB Japan, Ibaraki, Japan

The system for handling the synchrotron metadata registration process at Spring 8 was developed by Cosylab/S2Innovation. Web application was based on Tornado, a Python framework which was chosen for it’s support for non-blocking network I/O, making it ideal for long polling and enabling it to scale to large number of open connections. Main functionalities that were implemented include: signal metadata check, signal registration, database backup/restore and signal registration history administration. The paper presents result of the project and challenges faced during it’s realization.

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THPV009

Web Gui Development and Integration in Libera Instrumentation

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D. Bisiach, M. Cargnelutti, P. Leban, P. Paglovec, L. Rahne, M. Škabar, A. Vigali
I-Tech, Solkan, Slovenia

During the past 5 years, Instrumentation Technologies expanded and added to the embedded OS running on Libera instruments (beam position instrumentation, LLRF) a lot of data access interfaces to allow faster access to the signals retrieved by the instrument. Some of the access interfaces are strictly related to the user environment Machine control system (Epics/Tango), and others related to the user software preferences (Matlab/Python). In the last years, the requirement for easier data streaming was raised to allow easier data access using PC and mobile phones through a web browser. This paper aims to present the development of the web backend server and the realization of a web frontend capable to process the data retrieved by the instrument. A use-case will be presented, the realization of the Libera Current Meter Web GUI as a first development example of a Web GUI interface for a Libera instrument and the starting point for the Web GUI pipeline integration on other instruments. The HTTP access interface will become in the next years a standard in data access for Libera instrumentation for quick testing/diagnostics and will allow the final user to customize it autonomously.

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THPV010

Scaling Up the ALBA Cabling Database and Plans to Turn into an Asset Management System

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I. Costa, A. Camps Gimenez, R. Cazorla, T. Fernández Maltas, D. Salvat
ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

The "Cabling and Controls Database" (CCDB) is a central repository where the different teams of ALBA manage the information of installed racks, equipment, cables and connectors, and their connections and technical specifications. ALBA has modernized this web application for sustainability reasons and fit new needs detected throughout the last years of operation in our facility. The application has been linked to Jira to allow tracking problems in specific installed equipment or locations. In addition, it also connects to the ALBA Inventory Pools application, the warehouse management system, where the stock of physical equipment and components are maintained to get information on the life cycle of the different devices. These new features, integrated with proprietary products like Jira and Insight, aim to become ALBA’s asset management system. This paper aims to describe the main features of the recent application upgrade, currently in continuous development.

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THPV011

Notifications with Native Mobile Application

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B. Bertrand, J. Forsberg
MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
E. Laface, G. Weiss
ESS, Lund, Sweden

Notifications are an essential part of any control system. Many people want to be notified of specific events. There are several ways to send notifications: SMS, e-mails or messaging applications like Slack and Telegram are some common ones. Those solutions frequently require some central configuration to record who will receive messages, which is difficult to maintain. ESS developed a native mobile application, both for iOS and Android, to manage notifications. The application allows the users to subscribe to the topics they are interested in, removing the need for a central configuration. A web server is used as gateway to send all notifications following Apple and Google protocols. This server exposes a REST API that is used both by clients to send messages and mobile applications to retrieve and manage those messages. This paper will detail the technical implementation as well as the lessons learnt from this approach.

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THPV012

LHC Collimation Controls System for Run III Operation

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G. Azzopardi, M. Di Castro, S. Redaelli, B. Salvachua, M. Solfaroli Camillocci
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
G. Valentino
University of Malta, Information and Communication Technology, Msida, Malta

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collimation system is designed to protect the machine against unavoidable beam losses. The collimation system for the LHC Run 3, starting in 2022, consists of more than 100 movable collimators located along the 27 km long ring and in the transfer lines. The cleaning performance and machine protection role of the system critically depend on the accurate positioning of the collimator jaws. The collimation control system in place enables remote control and appropriate diagnostics of the relevant parameters. This ensures that the collimators dynamically follow optimum settings in all phases of the LHC operational cycle. In this paper, an overview of the top-level software tools available for collimation control from the control room is given. These tools range from collimator alignment applications to generation tools for collimator settings, as well as collimator scans, settings checks and machine protection sequences. Amongst these tools the key upgrades and newly introduced tools for the Run 3 are presented.

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THPV013

WRAP - A Web-Based Rapid Application Development Framework for CERN’s Controls Infrastructure

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E. Galatas, A. Asko, E. Matli, C. Roderick
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

To ensure stable operation of CERN’s accelerator complex, many Devices need to be controlled. To meet this need, over 500 custom Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) have been developed using Java Swing, Java FX, NetBeans, Eclipse SWT, etc. These represent a high maintenance cost, particularly considering the global evolution of the GUI technology landscape. The new Web-based Rapid Application Platform (WRAP) provides a centralized, zero-code, drag-n-drop means of GUI creation. It aims to replace a significant percentage of existing GUIs and ease new developments. Integration with the Controls Configuration Service (CCS) provides rich infrastructure metadata to support application configuration, whilst following the associated equipment lifecycle (e.g. renames, upgrades, dismantling). Leveraging the CERN Accelerator Logging Service (NXCALS) and the Unified Controls Acquisition and Processing (UCAP) platform, allows WRAP users to respectively, create GUIs showing historical data, and interface with complex data-stream processing. The plugin architecture will allow teams to further extend the tool as needed. This paper describes the WRAP architecture, design, status, and outlook.

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THPV014

Adopting PyQt for Beam Instrumentation GUI Development at CERN

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S. Zanzottera, S. Jackson, S. Jensen
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

As Java GUI toolkits become deprecated, the Beam Instrumentation (BI)group at CERN has investigated alternatives and selected PyQt as one of the suitable technologies for future GUIs, in accordance with the paper presented at ICALEPCS19. This paper presents tools created, or adapted, to seamlessly integrate future PyQt GUI development alongside current Java oriented workflows and the controls environment. This includes (a) creating a project template and a GUI management tool to ease and standardize our development process, (b) rewriting our previously Java-centric Expert GUI Launcher to be language-agnostic and (c) porting a selection of operational GUIs from Java to PyQt, to test the feasibility of the development process and identify bottlenecks. To conclude, the challenges we anticipate for the BI GUI developer community in adopting this new technology are also discussed.

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THPV015

New Timing Sequencer Application in Python with Qt - Development Workflow and Lessons Learnt

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Zs. Kovari, G. Kruk
CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland

PyQt is a Python binding for the popular Qt framework for the development of desktop applications. By using PyQt one can leverage Qt’s aspects to implement modern, intuitive, and cross-platform applications while benefiting from Python’s flexibility. Recently, we successfully used PyQt 5 to renovate the Graphical User Interface (GUI) used to control the CERN accelerator timing system. The GUI application interfaces with a Java-based service behind the scenes. In this paper we introduce the generic architecture used for this project, our development workflow as well as the challenges and lessons we learned from using Python with Qt. We present our approach to delivering an operational application with a particular focus on testing, quality assurance, and continuous integration.

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THPV016

Developing an Alarm Philosophy for the EPICS Control System at ISIS

S.A. Medley, I.D. Finch, S.M. Malinowski, M. Romanovschi
STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom

The ISIS Muon and Neutron Source control system alarms have been growing organically during the 30+ years of ISIS’s operation. The upcoming migration from the Vista Control Systems product Vsystem to EPICS provides the right opportunity and framework for a ‘fresh start’ to review and rationalise the alarms. Internationally recognised good engineering practice is defined in the IEC-62682 / ISA 18.2 Standards for the Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industries, which describe the Alarm Management Lifecycle: an ongoing process of continuous improvement to be used to manage alarms in control systems. The Lifecycle begins with the development of an Alarm Philosophy, which establishes the basic definitions, principles and processes to design, implement and maintain an alarm system. The development of an Alarm Philosophy for the new EPICS Control system at ISIS is outlined, setting out the basis for the identification, classification and prioritisation of alarms. The challenges of managing the transition of the alarms from Vsystem to EPICS are discussed, including the outcome of initial work applying the Alarm Philosophy to rationalising the existing Vsystem alarms.

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THPV017

A cloud based toolbox for accelerator controls interfaces and optimization

J.P. Edelen, E.G. Carlin, M.V. Keilman, P. Moeller, R. Nagler
RadiaSoft LLC, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Funding: This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under Award Number DE-SC0019682
Modern particle accelerator facilities generate large amounts of data and face increasing demands on their operational performance. As the demand on accelerator operations increases so does the need for automated tuning algorithms and control to maximize uptime with reduced operator intervention. Existing tools are insufficient to meet the broad demands on controls, visualization, and analysis. We have developed a cloud based toolbox featuring a generic virtual accelerator control room for the development of automated tuning algorithms and the analysis of large complex datasets. This framework utilizes tracking codes combined with with algorithms for machine drift, low-level control systems, and other complications to create realistic models of accelerators. These models are directly interfaced with control toolboxes allowing for rapid prototyping of tuning algorithms. In this paper, we will provide an overview of our interface and demonstrate its utility for building beamline controls displays directly from accelerator simulation lattices. We will also demonstrate the use of our interface for testing online optimization and control algorithms.

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THPV018

Infrastructure-independent Device Control

A. Sukhanov, J.P. Jamilkowski
BNL, Upton, New York, USA

Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-SC0012704 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
In modern accelerator control systems there is often a need for controlling devices which have been developed with interface to a different control infrastructure. For example, the future EIC collider will have mixture of EPICS-controlled and ADO-controlled devices. In this paper we describe the control tools and middle-level interface which allows to control the devices independently of their dedicated architecture. The tools are implemented in python and currently they include a pypet, an imageViewer, and a pvplot. The pypet a spreadsheet-based advanced parameter editing tool which covers functionality of the EDM, MEDM and PET. The imageViewer is interactive image analysis tool, supporting AreaDetector, USB and ADO - controlled cameras. The pvplot is simple parameter plotting tool. The tools are operational at RHIC collider and they provide control for devices from various infrastructures (ADO, EPICS and liteServer).

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FRAR01

Taranta, the No-Code Web Dashboard in Production

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M. Eguiraun, A. Amjad, J. Forsberg, V. Hardion, Y.L. Li, L.M. Nguyen, J.T.K. Rosenqvist, M. Saad
MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
V. Alberti
INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy
M. Canzari
INAF - OAAB, Teramo, Italy
H.R. Ribeiro
Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências, Porto, Portugal

The remote control and monitoring of accelerators and experimental setup has become an essential enabler when remote work has become the norm for the last 2 years. Unlike the desktop user interfaces which have been developed for the use of physical workstations, Web application are naturally accessible remotely via the ubiquitous web browsers. On the other hand, Web technology development need a specific knowledge which has yet to be disseminate in the control system engineering. And desktop frameworks still have the benefit of rapid and easy development even for the non-specialist. Taranta Suite is a collection of web applications jointly developed by MAX IV Laboratory and the SKA Organization, for the Tango Control System. Totally in line with the ’no-code’ trend, truly little knowledge of web technologies is needed. An operator can create a graphical user interface on-the-fly and then, can share instantly this application. Authentication and authorization ensure to give the right level access to the users. This paper will describe the system, the React and GQL implementation and the first usage at the different facilities.

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FRAR02

canone3: A New Service and Development Framework for the Web and Platform Independent Applications*

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G. Strangolino, L. Zambon
Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy

Funding: * inspiration by Alessio Igor Bogani, Elettra, Trieste, Italy
On the wake of former web interfaces developed at ELETTRA as well as in other institutes, the service and development framework for the web and platform independent applications named PUMA has been substantially enhanced and rewritten, with the additional objectives of high availability, scalability, load balancing, responsiveness and customization. Thorough analysis of Websocket limits led to an SSE based server technology relying on channels (Nchan over NGINX) to deliver the events to the clients. The development of the latter is supported by JQuery, Bootstrap, D3js, SVG and QT and helps build interfaces ranging from mobile to dashboard. Ultimate developments led to successful load balancing and failover actions, owing to the joint cooperation of a dedicated service supervisor and the NGINX upstream module.

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FRAR03

A Major Update of Web Based Development Toolkit for Control System of Large-Scale Physics Experiment Device

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X.H. Xie, Y.X. Jiang, W. Wang, F.Y. Wu
HUST, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China
S. Li, B. Rao, Y. Yang, M. Zhang, P.L. Zhang, W. Zheng
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology,, Hubei, People’s Republic of China

Funding: Most from Ministry of Science and Technology of the people’s Republic of China
The deployment of the control system called CODAC (Control, Data Access and Communications) is necessary for the operation of large-scale experimental facilities. CFET (Control system framework for experimental devic-es toolkit) is a flexible SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) software tool, which is used for the construction of a CODAC. CFET is fully based on open web technologies, it is easy to integrate all kinds of systems and devices into CFET. This paper has undergone a major iteration of CFET. HMI has been redesigned and implemented. The control engineer can use a web based WYSIWYG HMI editor to compose the HMI. In CFET, InfluxDB has been integrated. It is used to store the engineering data, and also visualize the data on the website. Docker based microservices architecture has been designed, putting CFET and dependent packages into a lightweight container. At present, CFET has been used in the CO-DAC system of J-TEXT tokamak and HUST Field-Reversed Configuration facility.

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-FRAR03

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Received ※ 09 October 2021 Revised ※ 26 October 2021 Accepted ※ 21 December 2021 Issue date ※ 25 February 2022

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FRAR04

Phoebus Olog

K. Shroff
BNL, Upton, New York, USA
G. Weiss
ESS, Lund, Sweden

Phoebus Olog is an online logbook used for recording operational and experimental events by users or other applications. The Phoebus Olog service is an evolution of the Olog web service. It uses modern nosql data stores like mondoDB and elastic which provide horizontal scalability, improved performance, and complex querying functionality like fuzzy searches. The improvements of the server side are accompanied with several new UI clients; smartphone apps for convenient viewing of logs, logbook client in Phoebus CS-Studio which provides integration with various other applications like alarms, OPI, etc and a web application.

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