PCaPAC2012 - List of Keywords (monitoring)

Paper	Title	Other Keywords	Page
WECC02	EPICS Channel Access Using WebSocket	EPICS, controls, GUI, ECRIS	7
	A. Uchiyama Sokendai, Ibaraki, Japan K. Furukawa KEK, Ibaraki, Japan Y. Higurashi RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako, Japan
	Web technology is useful as a means to widely inform of accelerators and beam status.　For this purpose, WebOPI[1] as to web-based system using Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) with EPICS was implemented by SNS. On the other hand, it is often necessary to perform the accelerator control from various locations as well as central control room during the beam operation and the maintenance.　However, it is not realistic to replace GUI-based operator interface (OPI) with Web-based system using Ajax technology because of interactive performance.　Therefore, as a next-generation OPI over the web using EPICS Channel Access (CA), we developed a client system based on WebSocket, which is a new protocol provided by Internet Engineering Task Force for Web-based system.　WebSocket is a web technology providing bi-directional, full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection.　By utlizing Node.js and WebSocket access library named Socket. IO, a WebSocket server was implemented. As a result, Web-based client systems became available not only in the central control room but also with various types of equipment for accelerator operation. [1] http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/cs-studio/wiki/webopi

WEPD03	Control System Studio Archiver with PostgreSQL Backend: Optimizing Performance and Reliability for a Production Environment	controls, EPICS	15
	M. Konrad, C. Burandt, J. Enders, N. Pietralla TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
	Funding: Supported by DFG through CRC 634. Archiving systems based on relational databases (RDB) provide a higher flexibility with regard to data retrieval and analysis than the traditional EPICS Channel Archiver. On the other hand they can suffer from poor performance compared to the Channel Archiver for simple linear data retrieval operations. However, careful tuning of the database management system's configuration can lead to major performance improvements. Special care must be taken to ensure data integrity following power outages or hardware failures. This contribution describes the hardware and software configuration of an archiving system used in the production environment at the S-DALINAC. It covers performance and reliability aspects of the hardware as well as tuning of the Linux operating system and PostgreSQL server optimizations.
	Poster WEPD03 [2.044 MB]

WEPD11	Client Server Architecture Based Embedded Data Acquisition System on PC104	controls, status, GUI, instrumentation	23
	J.J. Patel, P.K. Chattopadhyay, R. Jha, P. Kumari, R. Rajpal IPR, Bhat, Gandhinagar, India
	The data acquisition system is designed on embedded PC104 platform Single Board Computer (SBC) with running Windows XP Embedded operating system. This is a multi channel system which consists of 12 Bit, 10 MSPS Analog to Digital Converters with on board FIFO memory for each channel. The digital control and PC104 bus interface logic are implemented using Very High Speed Hardware Description Language (VHDL) on Complex Programmable Logic Device (CPLD). The system has provision of software, manual as well as isolated remote trigger option. The Client Server based application is developed using National Instrument CVI for remote continuous and single shot data acquisition for basic plasma physics experiments. The software application has features of remote settings of sampling rate, selection of operation mode, data analysis using plot and zoom features. The embedded hardware platform can be configured to be used in different way according to the physics experiment requirement by different top level software architecture. The system is tested for different physics experiments. The detailed hardware and software design, development and testing results will be discussed in the paper.
	Poster WEPD11 [1.016 MB]

WEPD12	A Large Channel Count Multi Client Data Acquisition System for Superconducting Magnet System of SST-1	target, controls, plasma, status	26
	K.J. Doshi, J.A. Dhongde, Y.S. Khristi, H.A. Masand, B.A. Parghi, D.A. Patel, S. Pradhan, U.A. Prasad, A.N. Sharma, P.A. Varmora IPR, Bhat, Gandhinagar, India
	The magnet system of the steady-state superconducting tokamak-1 at the Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India, consists of sixteen Toroidal field and nine poloidal field Superconducting coils together with a pair of resistive PF coils, an air core ohmic transformer and a pair of vertical field coils. These coils are instrumented with various cryogenic grade sensors and voltage taps to monitor it's operating status and health during different operational scenarios. A VME based data acquisition system with remote system architecture is implemented for data acquisition and control of the complete magnet operation. Client-Server based architecture is implemented with remote hardware configuration and continuous online/ offline monitoring. A JAVA based platform independent client application is developed for data analysis and data plotting. The server has multiple data pipeline architecture to send data to storage database, online plotting application, Numerical display screen, and run time calculation. This paper describes software architecture, design and implementation of the data acquisition system.
	Poster WEPD12 [1.959 MB]

WEPD25	Development of EPICS Channel Access Embedded ActiveX Components for GUI Development	controls, GUI, EPICS, heavy-ion	54
	A. Roy, R.B. Bhole, S. Pal VECC, Kolkata, India
	The paper describes the integration of EPICS Channel Access protocol and Microsoft ActiveX technology towards developing a generalize operator interface (OPI) building facility for Windows platform. EPICS is used as the development architecture of the control system in Superconducting Cyclotron (SCC). Considering the operators' familiarity and compatibility with third party software, it was decided to use MS-Windows platform at operator interface level in SCC during commission. Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) is used on trial basis as OPI building platform to incorporate user specific features e.g. file system access for data storage and analysis, user authentication at OPI level etc. A set of EPICS Channel Access embedded ActiveX components is developed to ease the programming complexity and reduce developmental time of the OPI for Windows platform. OPIs, developed using these components and containing hundreds of process parameters, are being used reliably over a considerable period of time.
	Poster WEPD25 [0.144 MB]

WEPD28	Re-envisioning the Operator Consoles for Dhruva Control Room	controls, status, laser, acceleration	62
	S. Gaur, M.P. Diwakar, P.M. Nair, C.K. Pithawa, P. Sridharan BARC, Trombay, Mumbai, India N.C. Gohel Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
	Control Room design is undergoing rapid changes with the progressive adoption of computerization and automation. Advances in man-machine interfaces have further accelerated this trend. This paper presents the design and main features of Operator consoles (OC) using new technologies for Dhruva control room. The OCs have been designed so as not to burden the operator with information overload but to help him quickly assess the situation and timely take appropriate steps. The consoles provide minimalistic yet intuitive interfaces, context sensitive navigation, display of important information and progressive disclosure of situation based information. The use of animations, 3D graphics, and real time trends with the benefit of hardware acceleration to provide a resolution-independent rich user experience. The use of XAML, an XML based Mark-up Language for User Interface definition and C# for application logic resulted in complete separation of visual design, content, and logic. This also resulted in a workflow where separate teams could work on the UI and the logic of an application. The introduction of Model View View-Model has led to more testable and maintainable software.
	Poster WEPD28 [1.777 MB]

WEPD33	Embedded PC Based Controller for Use in VME Bus Based Data Acquisition System	controls, diagnostics	65
	G. Verma, B.B. Biswas, S.K. Jain, M. Kalra, D.A. Roy BARC, Mumbai, India
	An embedded PC based Controller module, named System Controller Module (SCM), has been developed at Reactor Control Division(RCnD), BARC. This module uses standard PC-104 bus based CPU module integrated with a protocol translator card to provide an interface between the CPU module and VME bus. The signal interface between PC-104 bus of CPU module and translator card is achieved through stackable connectors. SCM can be interfaced with 16-bit slave I/O modules on VME bus for Data Acquisition and Control. This development provides low cost PC based platform for developing I/O intensive embedded system requiring high processing power. SCM module is fully compatible with PC architecture and is available in Double Euro modular form factor. Module has self diagnostics features to test software integrity using onboard watchdog timer. The module provides dual Ethernet link for communication. The SCM has been assembled, integrated and successfully tested along with VME based high speed data acquisition system (Machinery Protection System), which has been developed in RCnD for condition monitoring of rotating machines. SCM acts as a configuration controller and data manager for this system.
	Poster WEPD33 [0.551 MB]

WEPD39	Development of an Ethernet Enabled Microcontroller Based Module for Superconducting Cyclotron ECR Beamline Control	controls, vacuum, ECR, cyclotron	73
	M. Chatterjee, D. Koley, P.Y. Nabhiraj VECC, Kolkata, India
	A General purpose Ethernet enabled control and data acquisition module based on PIC microcontroller has been developed. This module supports multiple general purpose analog and digital inputs and outputs for interfacing with various equipments. The remote control, configuration and monitoring of the equipment are achieved through an embedded web server. A strict authentication process is built in the web server to access for control and configuration parameters that ensures the operational safety of the equipment under control. At present, this is being used for remote control of the ECR beam line vacuum systems and monitoring of various parameters like dual vacuum Gauge readings, pumping speed etc. These modules form a distributed control architecture enhancing the reliability of the controlled system, enables fast fault diagnostics and thereby reducing the downtime of the system significantly. In this article, the development of the hardware and software for the Ethernet enabled microcontroller based module is presented.
	Poster WEPD39 [0.568 MB]

THIA03	The IUAC Tandem-LINAC Control System	controls, linac, GUI, ion	94
	A. Kumar, B.K. Sahu, K. Singh IUAC, New Delhi, India
	The 16MV Tandem Van de Graff accelerator at IUAC is one of the earliest machines to go for a PC based control system. The PDP11, supplied with it, was replaced by an IBM PC running DOS before the accelerator was commissioned in 1989. The present system, commissioned in 1997 to include the LINAC, runs on a network of PCs under the GNU/Linux operating system. We have followed a distributed approach by grouping the signals, around 1000 in total, based on the location. Each group is connected to a server computer, by hardware interfaces like CAMAC, VME and custom hardware. The signals connected to each server PC are handled by a server program and they are accessible to the outside world, over a TCP/IP network, using a unique identifier consisting of a Label, Function and Unit. The features like a user interface, monitoring for alarm conditions, data logging and partial automation are handled by several client programs, communicating to multiple servers to access the hardware. The communication is done by passing a message packet and waiting for the reply. The message consists of the unique signal identifier and commands for setting/reading analog and digital parameter values. The development of the control system also resulted in low cost equipment for science education[1]. It also helped further development of the control system by additions like client programs in Python language. This feature enabled accelerator users to write simple scripts for tasks like setting the LINAC resonator parameters based on calculations, writing routines for partial automation etc. The system is cost effective, scalable and simple. It has shown very high reliability and ease of use during the past two decades of operation. [1] http://expeyes.inhttp://expeyes.in
	Slides THIA03 [4.121 MB]

THCA06	Status of the Ultra Fast Tomography Experiments Control at ANKA	controls, synchrotron, optics, HOM	103
	D. Haas, A. Cecilia, A. Kopmann, W. Mexner, H. Pasic, T. Spangenberg, P. Vagovic, M. Vogelgesang KIT, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany B.M. Balzer, S. Cilingaryan Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
	X-ray imaging permits spatially resolved visualization of the 2D and 3D structure in materials and organisms which is crucial for the understanding of their properties. Additional resolution in the time domain gives insight in the temporal structure evolution and thus access to dynamics of processes allowing to understand functionality of devices and organisms and to optimize technological processes. Such time resolved dynamic analyses ofμsize structures became now possible by the new ultrafast tomography at the TopoTomo beamline of the synchrotron light source ANKA. At TopoTomo the whole experimental workflow has been significant improved in order to decrease the total duration time of a tomography experiment in a range of minutes. To aim the goal of a Tango based control system for ultra fast tomography with a data throughput of several 100 MB/s, detectors and computing infrastructure have been optimized. Multi GPU based computing allows a high speed data processing by using a special reconstruction scheme. Furthermore data management infrastructure will allow a life cycle management of data sets accumulating to several TByte/day.
	Slides THCA06 [1.183 MB]

THCB02	EPICS MySQLArchiver - Integration Between EPICS and MySQL	EPICS, controls, cyclotron, status	109
	A. Roy, R.B. Bhole, S. Pal, D. Sarkar VECC, Kolkata, India
	The performance evaluation and analysis of inter-system dependency of the various subsystems of the Superconducting Cyclotron demand a well configured data logging, archiving and historic analysis facility for massive number of control parameters along with on-line failure analysis facility of every system. EPICS is used as development architecture of the control system of these systems with MySQL used as database for large amount of relational data management. This combination requires integration between EPICS and MySQL server. For this purpose, MySQLArchiver as an EPICS Extension is developed for data logging and archiving of control parameters into MySQL database. This extension also provides a web based tool for online monitoring of control parameters and historic analysis of archived data. This paper describes the software architecture, implementations, as well as method of configuration for any other EPICS based control system as a utility. This facility is also elaborated with examples, web page views and experiences of deploying it in SCC.
	Slides THCB02 [0.781 MB]

THCC02	Controls Architecture for the Diagnostic Devices at the European XFEL	controls, diagnostics, site, electron	121
	O. Hensler DESY, Hamburg, Germany
	The X-ray laser is an 3.4-km-long facility which runs essentially underground and comprises three sites above ground. For controlling all diagnostic devices like toroids, BPMs or BLMs, it is planned to use the new MTCA.4 crate standard instead of VME. ATCA is an emerging standard from the Telecom Industry and adapted with the PICMG MTCA.4 branch for physics usage. The communication on the backplane utilizes the high speed serial PCIe communication plus precise clock lines and SATA interface. The MTCA.4 hardware supports hot-plug mechanism and remote monitoring and control via IPMI over Ethernet. Some of the diagnostics will be connected to 16Bit ADCs with up to 125Mhz sampling rate from Struck company or to an internal DESY development call DAMC2. The software architecture is based on the DOOCS control system known from the FLASH accelerator. The raw data from the ADCs will be read via DMA transfer by one server process. Then this raw data will distributed locally on the CPU using a message passing system based on the ØMQ project. The receiving server processes are calculating these data into engineering units then. Everything works in an event driven way.
	Slides THCC02 [2.499 MB]

THCC03	PC Based Real Time Data Exchange on 10GbE Optical Network Using RTOS	controls, status	124
	R.P. Gupta, H.D. Dave IPR, Bhat, Gandhinagar, India
	Funding: This work is supported by research grant No. BRFST/NFP/2012/Feb/N/05; dated 5th April, 2012, under the National Fusion Programme of the Board for research in Fusion Science & Technology at IPR The traditional embedded systems are expensive to adapt to the new requirements. The Personal Computer based systems offer alternatives for industrial controls. It reduces the capital cost and provides a solution for multiple applications. However, limitations of PC based controls should be resolved. PC operates on a non-real time OS with non-deterministic response to real time events and data. The real-time pre-emptive kernel for Linux uses Xenomai for better solution. A real-time 10GbE data exchange optical network using Xenomai extension for Linux is demonstrated. The hardware based on Intel_82599 10GbE Ethernet PCIe network card supports IEEE1588 standard for synchronization, deterministic response to real-time interrupts and events. The benchmark testing comprises multiple nodes and data sources, for data exchange among nodes, which would improve the performance of PC control systems. Data sources and consumers include time synchronization, hardware and software events broadcasting. A single fiber cable is used for exchange of measured status and calculated control data among nodes. Moreover, the open source Ubuntu Linux RTOS will help the future development. [1] KunJi et al, 'Real-Time Control via Ethernet', Int. J.of Control, Auto. and Sys, vol.3, no.4, pp.591-600, 2005. [2] F.Leroux et al, 'New Dev. on Acqu. Units', Proc. of ICALEPCS, Grenoble, France, pp. 922-925, 2011
	Slides THCC03 [0.595 MB]

THCD06	Design Development and Analysis of a Comprehensive Open Source System for Proactive Management of Security Aspects of a Control Network	controls, status, factory	134
	S.S. Tomar, S.N. Chaudhari, H.S. Chouhan, V.K. Maurya, A. Rawat RRCAT, Indore (M.P.), India
	Control networks can only be assumed to be secure, when they work in complete isolation and all communication ports of the constituent control devices are disabled and are closely monitored for security breaches on 24X7 basis. With more and more control systems being developed using Common Out of The Shelf (COTS) computers, using windows OS, the chances of virus attacks on such control networks is extremely large. Handling zero day virus attacks or virus attacks with unknown cure, is a serious challenge for control network administrators. Another important aspect, somehow related to the security of the control network, is the rising temperatures of the control devices, because of 24X7 operation. All this is difficult to handle manually or using disconnected systems and hence there is a requirement of a comprehensive system which can do all this automatically. In this paper we will discuss the various security related parameters of the control networks and then present a simplified design followed by development details of a comprehensive open source system for proactive management of the security aspects of the control network.
	Slides THCD06 [3.900 MB]

THPD09	Development of a Monitoring System for the FL-net Protocol	controls, PLC, status, undulator	151
	M. Ishii, T. Masuda, S. Ueda JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken, Japan T. Fukui RIKEN/SPring-8, Hyogo, Japan
	At SPring-8 and SACLA, we are using the FL-net for many control systems as a communication protocol between front-end computers and PLCs. The FL-net is one of the Ethernet-based open standard protocols for a factory floor network authorized by the Japan Electrical Manufacturers' Association. It is a UDP/IP based master-less token passing protocol and supports a cyclic transmission. At SACLA, we had some troubles in a data acquisition by using the FL-net for beam line equipment protection system. In a network based control system, an analysis of network packets is an effective way at troubleshooting. We developed a monitoring system for the FL-net protocol, which captures and analyzes all packets of an FL-net network segment, detects protocol failure events, and stores the event information into a relational database. We can easily refer to the stored information in the database via a web browser. The monitoring system is highly portable software based system without dedicated hardware implementing a protocol stack. In this paper, the design of the monitoring system for the FL-net will be presented.
	Poster THPD09 [1.655 MB]

THPD11	Facility Monitoring System using Storage Area Network for VEC and SCC	controls, EPICS, cyclotron	157
	T. Bhattacharjee, R.B. Bhole, K. Datta, S. Pal, A. Roy, T. Samanta, D. Sarkar, Mr. Saxena VECC, Kolkata, India
	The facility monitoring system of cyclotron operational parameters at VECC is developed and commissioned recently. Storage Area Network(SAN) is used to isolate the control LAN and office LAN which ensures secured access of the control systems from outside world. EPICS gateway service and modified channel access save/restore tool have been used to integrate EPICS based control system of VEC and SCC with office network. This paper describes the implementation details and operational experiences of the overall facility monitoring system.

THPD12	Design and Implementation of an IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee based Star Network for Data Acquisition and Monitoring	vacuum, controls, LabView, cyclotron	160
	S. Guha, T.K. Bhaumik, C. Mallik, P.Y. Nabhiraj VECC, Kolkata, India
	ZigBee based wireless technology is used to provide a low cost, low power, secured, PAN solution for monitoring of parameters from several distributed vacuum pumping modules installed in the SCC injection line. The parameters include On-Off status of the modules, RPM of pump, input current and pressure reading of different vacuum gauges. The ZigBee stack is written in a simplified form so that each node can create a network and can join to any established network when powered on. End nodes can be replaced through a little modification in the firmware codes. End node consists of sensors, signal conditioning circuits, micro-controller and ZigBee Transceiver whereas the central node consists of micro-controller, Transceiver and UART interface. This paper highlights the future approach of utilizing this network for data acquisition related with environmental temperature, relative humidity, noise, water leakage from inaccessible areas of Cyclotron Vault, Pit, Basement and ECR Highbay for the ease of maintenance also demonstrate the development of an environment monitoring system powered by solar cells covering a wide area.
	Poster THPD12 [0.194 MB]

THPD17	API Manager Implementation and its Use for Indus Accelerator Control	controls, status, diagnostics, power-supply	175
	B.N. Merh, R.K. Agrawal, K.G. Barpande, P. Fatnani, C.P. Navathe RRCAT, Indore (M.P.), India
	The control system software needed for operation of Indus accelerators is interfaced to the underlying firmware and hardware of the control system by the Application Programming Interface (API) manager. PVSS-II SCADA is being used at the layer-1 (L1) for control and monitoring of various sub-systems in the three-layered architecture of Indus control system. The layer-2 (L2) consists of VME bus based system. The API manager plays a crucial role in interfacing the L1 and L2 of the control system. It has to interact with both the PVSS database and the L2. It uses the PVSS API, a C++ class library, to access the PVSS database, whereas in order to access the L2, custom functions have been built. Several other custom functionalities have also been implemented. This paper presents the important aspects of the API manager like its implementation, its interface mechanism to the lower layer and features like configurability, reusable classes, multithreading capability etc.
	Poster THPD17 [1.119 MB]

THPD22	Controls for a 10 Petawatt Class Laser Facility	controls, laser, target, status	190
	D.A. Pepler STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
	Funding: Science & Technology Facilities Council, UK Computerised controls are vital to the operability and flexibility of large-scale physics facilities (such as accelerators, synchrotrons and high-power lasers) in providing fundamental services, for example, automatic configuring of specialist hardware, motion control, firing of shot sequences, enabling precision trigger distribution, vacuum monitoring and control, data acquisition and analysis. The proposed 10PW Laser facility, in line with other major physics facilities around the world, will require a complex computer control system. This is expected to be modeled on the existing Vulcan Laser[1] control system and consist of a dozen or so Windows based PCs each of which will be running a separate and dedicated application to control a particular area or function of the facility. This paper will present an overview of the existing Vulcan laser and provide a status report on the development towards the 10PW which will require the control system to be designed to allow autonomous operation of the 10PW facility as well as to be fully integrated with the existing Vulcan laser controls for combined and synchronized 10PW plus 1PW operations. [1] www.clf.stfc.ac.uk/Facilities/Vulcan/12248.aspx
	Poster THPD22 [1.219 MB]

THPD28	A Distributed CAN Bus Based Embedded Control System for 750 keV DC Accelerator	controls, LabView, power-supply, high-voltage	197
	A. Kasliwal, T.G. Pandit RRCAT, Indore (M.P.), India
	Funding: RRCAT, Indore, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India This paper describes a distributed embedded system that uses a high performance mixed signal controller C8051F040 for its DAQ nodes and is based on CAN bus protocol for remote monitoring and controlling of various subsystems of 750 keV DC accelerator based irradiation facility at RRCAT, Indore. A PC with integrated PCI CAN card communicates with intelligent DAQ nodes over CAN bus and each node is interfaced with a subsystem. An opto- isolated SN65HVD230 CAN driver is interfaced between each node and physical bus. Remote frames and message prioritizing are used for efficient control. The PC application is developed using LabVIEW 8.6. The proposed system is more reliable and noise immune as compared to previously [1] used systems that initially used a centralized system based on C8051 controller. This was then upgraded [2] to a distributed system that used micro-controller AduC812 and communicated over RS485 link. The new system has been integrated and tested satisfactorily for its designed performance with test jigs that simulated the actual subsystems with a bus length of 75 meters. First the complete scheme of the system is presented, then the hardware and software designs are discussed. [1] A. Kasliwal, "PC based control system for 750 KV DC accelerator", InPAC-2003, CAT, Indore, India [2] A. Kasliwal, "Upgradation of PC based control system for 750 keV DC accelerator", InPAC-2005, VECC, Kolkata, India

THPD47	Introduction of Non-Standard EPICS Controllers	EPICS, LabView, controls, GUI	227
	I. Badillo, I. Arredondo, M. Eguiraun, D. Piso, M. del Campo ESS Bilbao, Zamudio, Spain J. Jugo University of the Basque Country, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bilbao, Spain
	Funding: ESS Bilbao Although EPICS is a mature software framework, the study and validation of new configurations of EPICS systems is very valuable, since new ideas open its evolution and improvement. So, the goal of the present work is to introduce new technologies under EPICS control structures and test different configurations with innovative hardware in this kind of applications. More specifically, it is intended to validate the use of non-stardard EPICS controllers. This paper presents a test bench using LabVIEW together with EPICS. LabVIEW eases and speeds up the development of control structures, avoids the hardware dependent developing costs and offers almost absolute compatibility with all kind of hardware used in control and data acquisition. To validate its use, it is mandatory to make a study facing this solution and EPICS standard methodology, specifically CODAC system used in ITER. To do so, a test bench is defined running both methods and its results compared. Following this scheme, the next step is to make a similar experiment introducing wireless links and replacing as many wires as possible.
	Poster THPD47 [0.646 MB]

FRCA03	Development of the Car-borne Survey System KURAMA	survey, radiation, radioactivity, background	248
	M. Tanigaki, Y. Kobayashi, R. Okumua, N. Sato, K. Takamiya, H. Yoshinaga, H. Yoshino Kyoto University, Research Reactor Institute, Osaka, Japan
	We have developed a car-borne survey system named as KURAMA (Kyoto University RAdiation MApping system) for the establishment of air dose rate map in Fukushima and surrounding area as a response to the nuclear accident at TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on March 11, 2011. KURAMA is developed with LabVIEW. The monitoring data tagged by GPS location data are shared with remote servers over 3G mobile network, then processed by servers for a real time plot on Google Earth and other various purposes. A CompactRIO-based KURAMA-II is developed for the autonomous operation in public vehicles. More than a hundred of KURAMA and KURAMA-II now serves for the drawing up the radiation map in the East Japan by Japanese government. The outline and present status of KURAMA and KURAMA-II are introduced.
	Slides FRCA03 [15.538 MB]

FRCB01	Maintaining an Effective and Efficient Control System for the Electromagnetic Calorimeter of the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment During Long-term CERN Large Hadron Collider Operations	controls, PLC, collider, hadron	254
	O. Holme, D.R.S. Di Calafiori, G. Dissertori, W. Lustermann ETH, Zurich, Switzerland S. Zelepoukine UW-Madison/PD, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
	Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) The sub-detectors of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) multi-purpose particle detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have been collecting physics data from particle collisions for almost three years. During this period, the Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) Detector Control System (DCS) has contributed to the high level of availability of the experiment. This paper presents the current architecture of this distributed and heterogeneous control system alongside plans and developments for future improvements. To ensure that the system can efficiently operate and adapt to changes throughout the required operation lifetime of more than a decade, the potential legacy aspects of this kind of control system must be carefully managed. Such issues include evolving system requirements, turnover of staff members, potential benefits from new technologies and the need to follow release schedules of external software dependencies. The techniques and results of the work to continually maintain, improve and streamline the control system are presented, including the use of metrics to evaluate the impact of this effort.
	Slides FRCB01 [2.214 MB]

FRCB03	RF Control System for 400 keV RFQ	controls, instrumentation, LLRF, cavity	260
	G. Joshi, T. Ananthkrishnan, S.K. Bharade, P. M. Paresh, C.K. Pithawa, C.I. Sujo BARC, Trombay, Mumbai, India
	An RF control system has been developed for the 400 keV, 350 MHz RFQ coming up at BARC. This single cavity system consists of the functionalities of amplitude stabilization and frequency tracking for both continuous and pulsed mode of operation. The amplitude stabilization is implemented by modulating the attenuation across a fast modulator placed in the drive path. The frequency tracking is achieved by driving the FM port of a signal generator with a signal proportional to the phase shift across the resonator. The whole system is under computer control via CAMAC hardware. The paper describes the system architecture, housing & wiring of the system in a single instrumentation rack and development & testing of computer control.
	Slides FRCB03 [0.484 MB]

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WECC02

EPICS Channel Access Using WebSocket

EPICS, controls, GUI, ECRIS

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A. Uchiyama
Sokendai, Ibaraki, Japan
K. Furukawa
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
Y. Higurashi
RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako, Japan

Web technology is useful as a means to widely inform of accelerators and beam status.　For this purpose, WebOPI[1] as to web-based system using Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) with EPICS was implemented by SNS. On the other hand, it is often necessary to perform the accelerator control from various locations as well as central control room during the beam operation and the maintenance.　However, it is not realistic to replace GUI-based operator interface (OPI) with Web-based system using Ajax technology because of interactive performance.　Therefore, as a next-generation OPI over the web using EPICS Channel Access (CA), we developed a client system based on WebSocket, which is a new protocol provided by Internet Engineering Task Force for Web-based system.　WebSocket is a web technology providing bi-directional, full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection.　By utlizing Node.js and WebSocket access library named Socket. IO, a WebSocket server was implemented. As a result, Web-based client systems became available not only in the central control room but also with various types of equipment for accelerator operation.
[1] http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/cs-studio/wiki/webopi

WEPD03

Control System Studio Archiver with PostgreSQL Backend: Optimizing Performance and Reliability for a Production Environment

controls, EPICS

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M. Konrad, C. Burandt, J. Enders, N. Pietralla
TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Funding: Supported by DFG through CRC 634.
Archiving systems based on relational databases (RDB) provide a higher flexibility with regard to data retrieval and analysis than the traditional EPICS Channel Archiver. On the other hand they can suffer from poor performance compared to the Channel Archiver for simple linear data retrieval operations. However, careful tuning of the database management system's configuration can lead to major performance improvements. Special care must be taken to ensure data integrity following power outages or hardware failures. This contribution describes the hardware and software configuration of an archiving system used in the production environment at the S-DALINAC. It covers performance and reliability aspects of the hardware as well as tuning of the Linux operating system and PostgreSQL server optimizations.

Poster WEPD03 [2.044 MB]

WEPD11

Client Server Architecture Based Embedded Data Acquisition System on PC104

controls, status, GUI, instrumentation

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J.J. Patel, P.K. Chattopadhyay, R. Jha, P. Kumari, R. Rajpal
IPR, Bhat, Gandhinagar, India

The data acquisition system is designed on embedded PC104 platform Single Board Computer (SBC) with running Windows XP Embedded operating system. This is a multi channel system which consists of 12 Bit, 10 MSPS Analog to Digital Converters with on board FIFO memory for each channel. The digital control and PC104 bus interface logic are implemented using Very High Speed Hardware Description Language (VHDL) on Complex Programmable Logic Device (CPLD). The system has provision of software, manual as well as isolated remote trigger option. The Client Server based application is developed using National Instrument CVI for remote continuous and single shot data acquisition for basic plasma physics experiments. The software application has features of remote settings of sampling rate, selection of operation mode, data analysis using plot and zoom features. The embedded hardware platform can be configured to be used in different way according to the physics experiment requirement by different top level software architecture. The system is tested for different physics experiments. The detailed hardware and software design, development and testing results will be discussed in the paper.

Poster WEPD11 [1.016 MB]

WEPD12

A Large Channel Count Multi Client Data Acquisition System for Superconducting Magnet System of SST-1

target, controls, plasma, status

26

K.J. Doshi, J.A. Dhongde, Y.S. Khristi, H.A. Masand, B.A. Parghi, D.A. Patel, S. Pradhan, U.A. Prasad, A.N. Sharma, P.A. Varmora
IPR, Bhat, Gandhinagar, India

The magnet system of the steady-state superconducting tokamak-1 at the Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India, consists of sixteen Toroidal field and nine poloidal field Superconducting coils together with a pair of resistive PF coils, an air core ohmic transformer and a pair of vertical field coils. These coils are instrumented with various cryogenic grade sensors and voltage taps to monitor it's operating status and health during different operational scenarios. A VME based data acquisition system with remote system architecture is implemented for data acquisition and control of the complete magnet operation. Client-Server based architecture is implemented with remote hardware configuration and continuous online/ offline monitoring. A JAVA based platform independent client application is developed for data analysis and data plotting. The server has multiple data pipeline architecture to send data to storage database, online plotting application, Numerical display screen, and run time calculation. This paper describes software architecture, design and implementation of the data acquisition system.

Poster WEPD12 [1.959 MB]

WEPD25

Development of EPICS Channel Access Embedded ActiveX Components for GUI Development

controls, GUI, EPICS, heavy-ion

54

A. Roy, R.B. Bhole, S. Pal
VECC, Kolkata, India

The paper describes the integration of EPICS Channel Access protocol and Microsoft ActiveX technology towards developing a generalize operator interface (OPI) building facility for Windows platform. EPICS is used as the development architecture of the control system in Superconducting Cyclotron (SCC). Considering the operators' familiarity and compatibility with third party software, it was decided to use MS-Windows platform at operator interface level in SCC during commission. Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) is used on trial basis as OPI building platform to incorporate user specific features e.g. file system access for data storage and analysis, user authentication at OPI level etc. A set of EPICS Channel Access embedded ActiveX components is developed to ease the programming complexity and reduce developmental time of the OPI for Windows platform. OPIs, developed using these components and containing hundreds of process parameters, are being used reliably over a considerable period of time.

Poster WEPD25 [0.144 MB]

WEPD28

Re-envisioning the Operator Consoles for Dhruva Control Room

controls, status, laser, acceleration

62

S. Gaur, M.P. Diwakar, P.M. Nair, C.K. Pithawa, P. Sridharan
BARC, Trombay, Mumbai, India
N.C. Gohel
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India

Control Room design is undergoing rapid changes with the progressive adoption of computerization and automation. Advances in man-machine interfaces have further accelerated this trend. This paper presents the design and main features of Operator consoles (OC) using new technologies for Dhruva control room. The OCs have been designed so as not to burden the operator with information overload but to help him quickly assess the situation and timely take appropriate steps. The consoles provide minimalistic yet intuitive interfaces, context sensitive navigation, display of important information and progressive disclosure of situation based information. The use of animations, 3D graphics, and real time trends with the benefit of hardware acceleration to provide a resolution-independent rich user experience. The use of XAML, an XML based Mark-up Language for User Interface definition and C# for application logic resulted in complete separation of visual design, content, and logic. This also resulted in a workflow where separate teams could work on the UI and the logic of an application. The introduction of Model View View-Model has led to more testable and maintainable software.

Poster WEPD28 [1.777 MB]

WEPD33

Embedded PC Based Controller for Use in VME Bus Based Data Acquisition System

controls, diagnostics

65

G. Verma, B.B. Biswas, S.K. Jain, M. Kalra, D.A. Roy
BARC, Mumbai, India

An embedded PC based Controller module, named System Controller Module (SCM), has been developed at Reactor Control Division(RCnD), BARC. This module uses standard PC-104 bus based CPU module integrated with a protocol translator card to provide an interface between the CPU module and VME bus. The signal interface between PC-104 bus of CPU module and translator card is achieved through stackable connectors. SCM can be interfaced with 16-bit slave I/O modules on VME bus for Data Acquisition and Control. This development provides low cost PC based platform for developing I/O intensive embedded system requiring high processing power. SCM module is fully compatible with PC architecture and is available in Double Euro modular form factor. Module has self diagnostics features to test software integrity using onboard watchdog timer. The module provides dual Ethernet link for communication. The SCM has been assembled, integrated and successfully tested along with VME based high speed data acquisition system (Machinery Protection System), which has been developed in RCnD for condition monitoring of rotating machines. SCM acts as a configuration controller and data manager for this system.

Poster WEPD33 [0.551 MB]

WEPD39

Development of an Ethernet Enabled Microcontroller Based Module for Superconducting Cyclotron ECR Beamline Control

controls, vacuum, ECR, cyclotron

73

M. Chatterjee, D. Koley, P.Y. Nabhiraj
VECC, Kolkata, India

A General purpose Ethernet enabled control and data acquisition module based on PIC microcontroller has been developed. This module supports multiple general purpose analog and digital inputs and outputs for interfacing with various equipments. The remote control, configuration and monitoring of the equipment are achieved through an embedded web server. A strict authentication process is built in the web server to access for control and configuration parameters that ensures the operational safety of the equipment under control. At present, this is being used for remote control of the ECR beam line vacuum systems and monitoring of various parameters like dual vacuum Gauge readings, pumping speed etc. These modules form a distributed control architecture enhancing the reliability of the controlled system, enables fast fault diagnostics and thereby reducing the downtime of the system significantly. In this article, the development of the hardware and software for the Ethernet enabled microcontroller based module is presented.

Poster WEPD39 [0.568 MB]

THIA03

The IUAC Tandem-LINAC Control System

controls, linac, GUI, ion

94

A. Kumar, B.K. Sahu, K. Singh
IUAC, New Delhi, India

The 16MV Tandem Van de Graff accelerator at IUAC is one of the earliest machines to go for a PC based control system. The PDP11, supplied with it, was replaced by an IBM PC running DOS before the accelerator was commissioned in 1989. The present system, commissioned in 1997 to include the LINAC, runs on a network of PCs under the GNU/Linux operating system. We have followed a distributed approach by grouping the signals, around 1000 in total, based on the location. Each group is connected to a server computer, by hardware interfaces like CAMAC, VME and custom hardware. The signals connected to each server PC are handled by a server program and they are accessible to the outside world, over a TCP/IP network, using a unique identifier consisting of a Label, Function and Unit. The features like a user interface, monitoring for alarm conditions, data logging and partial automation are handled by several client programs, communicating to multiple servers to access the hardware. The communication is done by passing a message packet and waiting for the reply. The message consists of the unique signal identifier and commands for setting/reading analog and digital parameter values. The development of the control system also resulted in low cost equipment for science education[1]. It also helped further development of the control system by additions like client programs in Python language. This feature enabled accelerator users to write simple scripts for tasks like setting the LINAC resonator parameters based on calculations, writing routines for partial automation etc. The system is cost effective, scalable and simple. It has shown very high reliability and ease of use during the past two decades of operation.
[1] http://expeyes.inhttp://expeyes.in

Slides THIA03 [4.121 MB]

THCA06

Status of the Ultra Fast Tomography Experiments Control at ANKA

controls, synchrotron, optics, HOM

103

D. Haas, A. Cecilia, A. Kopmann, W. Mexner, H. Pasic, T. Spangenberg, P. Vagovic, M. Vogelgesang
KIT, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
B.M. Balzer, S. Cilingaryan
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

X-ray imaging permits spatially resolved visualization of the 2D and 3D structure in materials and organisms which is crucial for the understanding of their properties. Additional resolution in the time domain gives insight in the temporal structure evolution and thus access to dynamics of processes allowing to understand functionality of devices and organisms and to optimize technological processes. Such time resolved dynamic analyses ofμsize structures became now possible by the new ultrafast tomography at the TopoTomo beamline of the synchrotron light source ANKA. At TopoTomo the whole experimental workflow has been significant improved in order to decrease the total duration time of a tomography experiment in a range of minutes. To aim the goal of a Tango based control system for ultra fast tomography with a data throughput of several 100 MB/s, detectors and computing infrastructure have been optimized. Multi GPU based computing allows a high speed data processing by using a special reconstruction scheme. Furthermore data management infrastructure will allow a life cycle management of data sets accumulating to several TByte/day.

Slides THCA06 [1.183 MB]

THCB02

EPICS MySQLArchiver - Integration Between EPICS and MySQL

EPICS, controls, cyclotron, status

109

A. Roy, R.B. Bhole, S. Pal, D. Sarkar
VECC, Kolkata, India

The performance evaluation and analysis of inter-system dependency of the various subsystems of the Superconducting Cyclotron demand a well configured data logging, archiving and historic analysis facility for massive number of control parameters along with on-line failure analysis facility of every system. EPICS is used as development architecture of the control system of these systems with MySQL used as database for large amount of relational data management. This combination requires integration between EPICS and MySQL server. For this purpose, MySQLArchiver as an EPICS Extension is developed for data logging and archiving of control parameters into MySQL database. This extension also provides a web based tool for online monitoring of control parameters and historic analysis of archived data. This paper describes the software architecture, implementations, as well as method of configuration for any other EPICS based control system as a utility. This facility is also elaborated with examples, web page views and experiences of deploying it in SCC.

Slides THCB02 [0.781 MB]

THCC02

Controls Architecture for the Diagnostic Devices at the European XFEL

controls, diagnostics, site, electron

121

O. Hensler
DESY, Hamburg, Germany

The X-ray laser is an 3.4-km-long facility which runs essentially underground and comprises three sites above ground. For controlling all diagnostic devices like toroids, BPMs or BLMs, it is planned to use the new MTCA.4 crate standard instead of VME. ATCA is an emerging standard from the Telecom Industry and adapted with the PICMG MTCA.4 branch for physics usage. The communication on the backplane utilizes the high speed serial PCIe communication plus precise clock lines and SATA interface. The MTCA.4 hardware supports hot-plug mechanism and remote monitoring and control via IPMI over Ethernet. Some of the diagnostics will be connected to 16Bit ADCs with up to 125Mhz sampling rate from Struck company or to an internal DESY development call DAMC2. The software architecture is based on the DOOCS control system known from the FLASH accelerator. The raw data from the ADCs will be read via DMA transfer by one server process. Then this raw data will distributed locally on the CPU using a message passing system based on the ØMQ project. The receiving server processes are calculating these data into engineering units then. Everything works in an event driven way.

Slides THCC02 [2.499 MB]

THCC03

PC Based Real Time Data Exchange on 10GbE Optical Network Using RTOS

controls, status

124

R.P. Gupta, H.D. Dave
IPR, Bhat, Gandhinagar, India

Funding: This work is supported by research grant No. BRFST/NFP/2012/Feb/N/05; dated 5th April, 2012, under the National Fusion Programme of the Board for research in Fusion Science & Technology at IPR
The traditional embedded systems are expensive to adapt to the new requirements. The Personal Computer based systems offer alternatives for industrial controls. It reduces the capital cost and provides a solution for multiple applications. However, limitations of PC based controls should be resolved. PC operates on a non-real time OS with non-deterministic response to real time events and data. The real-time pre-emptive kernel for Linux uses Xenomai for better solution. A real-time 10GbE data exchange optical network using Xenomai extension for Linux is demonstrated. The hardware based on Intel_82599 10GbE Ethernet PCIe network card supports IEEE1588 standard for synchronization, deterministic response to real-time interrupts and events. The benchmark testing comprises multiple nodes and data sources, for data exchange among nodes, which would improve the performance of PC control systems. Data sources and consumers include time synchronization, hardware and software events broadcasting. A single fiber cable is used for exchange of measured status and calculated control data among nodes. Moreover, the open source Ubuntu Linux RTOS will help the future development.
[1] KunJi et al, 'Real-Time Control via Ethernet', Int. J.of Control, Auto. and Sys, vol.3, no.4, pp.591-600, 2005.
[2] F.Leroux et al, 'New Dev. on Acqu. Units', Proc. of ICALEPCS, Grenoble, France, pp. 922-925, 2011

Slides THCC03 [0.595 MB]

THCD06

Design Development and Analysis of a Comprehensive Open Source System for Proactive Management of Security Aspects of a Control Network

controls, status, factory

134

S.S. Tomar, S.N. Chaudhari, H.S. Chouhan, V.K. Maurya, A. Rawat
RRCAT, Indore (M.P.), India

Control networks can only be assumed to be secure, when they work in complete isolation and all communication ports of the constituent control devices are disabled and are closely monitored for security breaches on 24X7 basis. With more and more control systems being developed using Common Out of The Shelf (COTS) computers, using windows OS, the chances of virus attacks on such control networks is extremely large. Handling zero day virus attacks or virus attacks with unknown cure, is a serious challenge for control network administrators. Another important aspect, somehow related to the security of the control network, is the rising temperatures of the control devices, because of 24X7 operation. All this is difficult to handle manually or using disconnected systems and hence there is a requirement of a comprehensive system which can do all this automatically. In this paper we will discuss the various security related parameters of the control networks and then present a simplified design followed by development details of a comprehensive open source system for proactive management of the security aspects of the control network.

Slides THCD06 [3.900 MB]

THPD09

Development of a Monitoring System for the FL-net Protocol

controls, PLC, status, undulator

151

M. Ishii, T. Masuda, S. Ueda
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken, Japan
T. Fukui
RIKEN/SPring-8, Hyogo, Japan

At SPring-8 and SACLA, we are using the FL-net for many control systems as a communication protocol between front-end computers and PLCs. The FL-net is one of the Ethernet-based open standard protocols for a factory floor network authorized by the Japan Electrical Manufacturers' Association. It is a UDP/IP based master-less token passing protocol and supports a cyclic transmission. At SACLA, we had some troubles in a data acquisition by using the FL-net for beam line equipment protection system. In a network based control system, an analysis of network packets is an effective way at troubleshooting. We developed a monitoring system for the FL-net protocol, which captures and analyzes all packets of an FL-net network segment, detects protocol failure events, and stores the event information into a relational database. We can easily refer to the stored information in the database via a web browser. The monitoring system is highly portable software based system without dedicated hardware implementing a protocol stack. In this paper, the design of the monitoring system for the FL-net will be presented.

Poster THPD09 [1.655 MB]

THPD11

Facility Monitoring System using Storage Area Network for VEC and SCC

controls, EPICS, cyclotron

157

T. Bhattacharjee, R.B. Bhole, K. Datta, S. Pal, A. Roy, T. Samanta, D. Sarkar, Mr. Saxena
VECC, Kolkata, India

The facility monitoring system of cyclotron operational parameters at VECC is developed and commissioned recently. Storage Area Network(SAN) is used to isolate the control LAN and office LAN which ensures secured access of the control systems from outside world. EPICS gateway service and modified channel access save/restore tool have been used to integrate EPICS based control system of VEC and SCC with office network. This paper describes the implementation details and operational experiences of the overall facility monitoring system.

THPD12

Design and Implementation of an IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee based Star Network for Data Acquisition and Monitoring

vacuum, controls, LabView, cyclotron

160

S. Guha, T.K. Bhaumik, C. Mallik, P.Y. Nabhiraj
VECC, Kolkata, India

ZigBee based wireless technology is used to provide a low cost, low power, secured, PAN solution for monitoring of parameters from several distributed vacuum pumping modules installed in the SCC injection line. The parameters include On-Off status of the modules, RPM of pump, input current and pressure reading of different vacuum gauges. The ZigBee stack is written in a simplified form so that each node can create a network and can join to any established network when powered on. End nodes can be replaced through a little modification in the firmware codes. End node consists of sensors, signal conditioning circuits, micro-controller and ZigBee Transceiver whereas the central node consists of micro-controller, Transceiver and UART interface. This paper highlights the future approach of utilizing this network for data acquisition related with environmental temperature, relative humidity, noise, water leakage from inaccessible areas of Cyclotron Vault, Pit, Basement and ECR Highbay for the ease of maintenance also demonstrate the development of an environment monitoring system powered by solar cells covering a wide area.

Poster THPD12 [0.194 MB]

THPD17

API Manager Implementation and its Use for Indus Accelerator Control

controls, status, diagnostics, power-supply

175

B.N. Merh, R.K. Agrawal, K.G. Barpande, P. Fatnani, C.P. Navathe
RRCAT, Indore (M.P.), India

The control system software needed for operation of Indus accelerators is interfaced to the underlying firmware and hardware of the control system by the Application Programming Interface (API) manager. PVSS-II SCADA is being used at the layer-1 (L1) for control and monitoring of various sub-systems in the three-layered architecture of Indus control system. The layer-2 (L2) consists of VME bus based system. The API manager plays a crucial role in interfacing the L1 and L2 of the control system. It has to interact with both the PVSS database and the L2. It uses the PVSS API, a C++ class library, to access the PVSS database, whereas in order to access the L2, custom functions have been built. Several other custom functionalities have also been implemented. This paper presents the important aspects of the API manager like its implementation, its interface mechanism to the lower layer and features like configurability, reusable classes, multithreading capability etc.

Poster THPD17 [1.119 MB]

THPD22

Controls for a 10 Petawatt Class Laser Facility

controls, laser, target, status

190

D.A. Pepler
STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom

Funding: Science & Technology Facilities Council, UK
Computerised controls are vital to the operability and flexibility of large-scale physics facilities (such as accelerators, synchrotrons and high-power lasers) in providing fundamental services, for example, automatic configuring of specialist hardware, motion control, firing of shot sequences, enabling precision trigger distribution, vacuum monitoring and control, data acquisition and analysis. The proposed 10PW Laser facility, in line with other major physics facilities around the world, will require a complex computer control system. This is expected to be modeled on the existing Vulcan Laser[1] control system and consist of a dozen or so Windows based PCs each of which will be running a separate and dedicated application to control a particular area or function of the facility. This paper will present an overview of the existing Vulcan laser and provide a status report on the development towards the 10PW which will require the control system to be designed to allow autonomous operation of the 10PW facility as well as to be fully integrated with the existing Vulcan laser controls for combined and synchronized 10PW plus 1PW operations.
[1] www.clf.stfc.ac.uk/Facilities/Vulcan/12248.aspx

Poster THPD22 [1.219 MB]

THPD28

A Distributed CAN Bus Based Embedded Control System for 750 keV DC Accelerator

controls, LabView, power-supply, high-voltage

197

A. Kasliwal, T.G. Pandit
RRCAT, Indore (M.P.), India

Funding: RRCAT, Indore, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India
This paper describes a distributed embedded system that uses a high performance mixed signal controller C8051F040 for its DAQ nodes and is based on CAN bus protocol for remote monitoring and controlling of various subsystems of 750 keV DC accelerator based irradiation facility at RRCAT, Indore. A PC with integrated PCI CAN card communicates with intelligent DAQ nodes over CAN bus and each node is interfaced with a subsystem. An opto- isolated SN65HVD230 CAN driver is interfaced between each node and physical bus. Remote frames and message prioritizing are used for efficient control. The PC application is developed using LabVIEW 8.6. The proposed system is more reliable and noise immune as compared to previously [1] used systems that initially used a centralized system based on C8051 controller. This was then upgraded [2] to a distributed system that used micro-controller AduC812 and communicated over RS485 link. The new system has been integrated and tested satisfactorily for its designed performance with test jigs that simulated the actual subsystems with a bus length of 75 meters. First the complete scheme of the system is presented, then the hardware and software designs are discussed.
[1] A. Kasliwal, "PC based control system for 750 KV DC accelerator", InPAC-2003, CAT, Indore, India
[2] A. Kasliwal, "Upgradation of PC based control system for 750 keV DC accelerator", InPAC-2005, VECC, Kolkata, India

THPD47

Introduction of Non-Standard EPICS Controllers

EPICS, LabView, controls, GUI

227

I. Badillo, I. Arredondo, M. Eguiraun, D. Piso, M. del Campo
ESS Bilbao, Zamudio, Spain
J. Jugo
University of the Basque Country, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bilbao, Spain

Funding: ESS Bilbao
Although EPICS is a mature software framework, the study and validation of new configurations of EPICS systems is very valuable, since new ideas open its evolution and improvement. So, the goal of the present work is to introduce new technologies under EPICS control structures and test different configurations with innovative hardware in this kind of applications. More specifically, it is intended to validate the use of non-stardard EPICS controllers. This paper presents a test bench using LabVIEW together with EPICS. LabVIEW eases and speeds up the development of control structures, avoids the hardware dependent developing costs and offers almost absolute compatibility with all kind of hardware used in control and data acquisition. To validate its use, it is mandatory to make a study facing this solution and EPICS standard methodology, specifically CODAC system used in ITER. To do so, a test bench is defined running both methods and its results compared. Following this scheme, the next step is to make a similar experiment introducing wireless links and replacing as many wires as possible.

Poster THPD47 [0.646 MB]

FRCA03

Development of the Car-borne Survey System KURAMA

survey, radiation, radioactivity, background

248

M. Tanigaki, Y. Kobayashi, R. Okumua, N. Sato, K. Takamiya, H. Yoshinaga, H. Yoshino
Kyoto University, Research Reactor Institute, Osaka, Japan

We have developed a car-borne survey system named as KURAMA (Kyoto University RAdiation MApping system) for the establishment of air dose rate map in Fukushima and surrounding area as a response to the nuclear accident at TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on March 11, 2011. KURAMA is developed with LabVIEW. The monitoring data tagged by GPS location data are shared with remote servers over 3G mobile network, then processed by servers for a real time plot on Google Earth and other various purposes. A CompactRIO-based KURAMA-II is developed for the autonomous operation in public vehicles. More than a hundred of KURAMA and KURAMA-II now serves for the drawing up the radiation map in the East Japan by Japanese government. The outline and present status of KURAMA and KURAMA-II are introduced.

Slides FRCA03 [15.538 MB]

FRCB01

Maintaining an Effective and Efficient Control System for the Electromagnetic Calorimeter of the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment During Long-term CERN Large Hadron Collider Operations

controls, PLC, collider, hadron

254

O. Holme, D.R.S. Di Calafiori, G. Dissertori, W. Lustermann
ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
S. Zelepoukine
UW-Madison/PD, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
The sub-detectors of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) multi-purpose particle detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have been collecting physics data from particle collisions for almost three years. During this period, the Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) Detector Control System (DCS) has contributed to the high level of availability of the experiment. This paper presents the current architecture of this distributed and heterogeneous control system alongside plans and developments for future improvements. To ensure that the system can efficiently operate and adapt to changes throughout the required operation lifetime of more than a decade, the potential legacy aspects of this kind of control system must be carefully managed. Such issues include evolving system requirements, turnover of staff members, potential benefits from new technologies and the need to follow release schedules of external software dependencies. The techniques and results of the work to continually maintain, improve and streamline the control system are presented, including the use of metrics to evaluate the impact of this effort.

Slides FRCB01 [2.214 MB]

FRCB03

RF Control System for 400 keV RFQ

controls, instrumentation, LLRF, cavity

260

G. Joshi, T. Ananthkrishnan, S.K. Bharade, P. M. Paresh, C.K. Pithawa, C.I. Sujo
BARC, Trombay, Mumbai, India

An RF control system has been developed for the 400 keV, 350 MHz RFQ coming up at BARC. This single cavity system consists of the functionalities of amplitude stabilization and frequency tracking for both continuous and pulsed mode of operation. The amplitude stabilization is implemented by modulating the attenuation across a fast modulator placed in the drive path. The frequency tracking is achieved by driving the FM port of a signal generator with a signal proportional to the phase shift across the resonator. The whole system is under computer control via CAMAC hardware. The paper describes the system architecture, housing & wiring of the system in a single instrumentation rack and development & testing of computer control.

Slides FRCB03 [0.484 MB]