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| WEPD34 | A Low-Cost High-Performance Embedded Platform for Accelerator Controls | controls, laser, free-electron-laser, electron | 68 |
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| Over the last years the mobile and hand-held device market has seen a dramatic performance improvement of the microprocessors employed for these systems. As an interesting side effect, this brings the opportunity of adopting these microprocessors to build small low-cost embedded boards, featuring lots of processing power and input/output capabilities. Moreover, being capable of running a full featured operating system such as GNU/Linux, and even a control system toolkit such as Tango, these boards can also be used in control systems as front-end or embedded computers. In order to evaluate the feasibility of this idea, an activity has started at ELETTRA to select, evaluate and validate a commercial embedded device able to guarantee production grade reliability, competitive costs and an open source platform. The preliminary results of this work are presented. | |||
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| THIC01 | Tango for Experiment Control | controls, GUI, synchrotron, LabView | 118 |
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The Tango[1] control system framework contains the communication bus with the standard communication modes as well as the basic hardware access modules, GUI tools and development kits, services and bindings to commercial products to set up a control system. Tango was developed by several synchrotron light sources that have to support not only the accelerator complex but also a lot of experimental end stations. For synchrotron experiments we have to control the whole process from basic hardware access over data taking to data analysis. This paper describes in the first part the special features of Tango allowing flexible experiment control. The dynamic configuration, the rapid hardware interface development and the sequencing and scanning framework are some examples. The second part gives an overview of some packages developed in the Tango community for experiment control: A HKL library for diffraction computation and diffractometer control, a library to control 2D detectors and a data analysis workbench with workflow engine for on-line and off-line data analysis. These packages are not part of Tango and can be used with other control systems.
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| FRCA03 | Development of the Car-borne Survey System KURAMA | monitoring, radiation, radioactivity, background | 248 |
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| 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. | |||
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Slides FRCA03 [15.538 MB] | ||