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Title	The Karabo Control System
Authors	S. Hauf, N. Anakkappalla, J.T. Bin Taufik, V. Bondar, R. Costa, W. Ehsan, S.G. Esenov, G. Flucke, A. García-Tabarés Valdivieso, G. Giovanetti, D. Goeries, D.G. Hickin, I. Karpics, A. Klimovskaia, A. Parenti, A. Samadli, H. Santos, A. Silenzi, M.A. Smith, F. Sohn, M. Staffehl, C. Youngman EuXFEL, Schenefeld, Germany
Abstract	The Karabo distributed control system has been developed to address the challenging requirements of the European X-ray Free Electron Laser facility*, which include custom-made hardware, and high data rates and volumes. Karabo implements a broker-based SCADA environment**. Extensions to the core framework, called devices, provide control of hardware, monitoring, data acquisition and online processing on distributed hardware. Services for data logging and for configuration management exist. The framework exposes Python and C++ APIs, which enable developers to quickly respond to requirements within an efficient development environment. An AI driven device code generator facilitates prototyping. Karabo’s GUI features an intuitive, coding-free control panel builder. This allows non-software engineers to create synoptic control views. This contribution introduces the Karabo Control System out of the view of application users and software developers. Emphasis is given to Karabo’s asynchronous Python environment. We share experience of running the European XFEL using a clean-sheet developed control system, and discuss the availability of the system as free and open source software.
Footnotes & References	* Tschentscher, et al. Photon beam transport and scientific instruments at the European XFEL App. Sci.7.6(2017):592 ** Hauf, et al. The Karabo distributed control system J.Sync. Rad.26.5(2019):1448ff
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Conference	ICALEPCS2023
Series	International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems (19th)
Location	Cape Town, South Africa
Date	09-13 October 2023
Publisher	JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland
Editorial Board	Volker RW Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany); Andy Götz (ESRF, Grenoble, France); Johan Venter (SARAO, Cape Town, South Africa); Karen White (SNS, Oak Ridge, TN, USA); Marie Robichon (ESRF, Grenoble, France); Vivienne Rowland (SARAO, Cape Town, South Africa)
Online ISBN	978-3-95450-238-7
Online ISSN	2226-0358
Received	06 October 2023
Accepted	03 December 2023
Issued/td>	12 December 2023
DOI	doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TH1BCO06
Pages	1120-1125
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