PCaPAC2014 - List of Keywords (operation)

Paper	Title	Other Keywords	Page
WCO102	Controls Middleware for FAIR	controls, framework, CORBA, software	4
	V. Rapp GSI, Darmstadt, Germany W. Sliwinski CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	With the FAIR complex, the control systems at GSI will face new scalability challenges due to significant amount of new hardware coming with the new facility. Although, the old systems have proven themselves as sustainable and reliable, they are based on technologies, which have become obsolete years ago. During the FAIR construction time and the associated shutdown GSI will replace multiple components of the control system. The success in the integration of CERNs FESA and LSA frameworks had moved GSI to extend the cooperation with the controls middleware and especially Remote Device Access (RDA) and Java API for Parameter Control (JAPC) frameworks. However, the current version of RDA is based on CORBA technology, which itself, can be considered obsolete. Consequently, it will be replaced by a newer version (RDA3), which will be based on ZeroMQ, and will offer a new improved API based on the experience from previous usage. The collaboration between GSI and CERN shows that new RDA is capable to comply with requirements of both environments. In this paper we present general architecture of the new RDA and depict its integration in the GSI control system.
	Slides WCO102 [0.323 MB]

WCO103	Integration of New Power Supply Controllers in the Existing Elettra Control System	controls, TANGO, power-supply, interface	7
	C. Scafuri, S. Cleva Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy
	The Elettra control system has been running since 1993. The controllers of the storage ring power supplies, still the original ones, have become obsolete and are no more under service. A renewal to overcome these limitations is foreseen. A prototype of the new controllers based on the BeagleBone embedded board and an in-house designed ADC/DAC carrier board, has been installed and tested in Elettra. A Tango device server running in the BeagleBone is in charge of controlling the power supply. In order to transparently integrate the new Tango controlled power supplies with the existing Remote Procedure Call (RPC) based control system, a number of software tools have been developed, mostly in the form of Tango devices and protocol bridges. This approach allows us to keep using legacy machine physics programs when integrating the new Tango based controllers and to carry out the upgrade gradually with less impact on the machine operation schedule.
	Slides WCO103 [1.228 MB]

WCO203	Profibus in Process Controls	controls, diagnostics, cryogenics, EPICS	16
	M.R. Clausen, T. Boeckmann, J. Hatje, O. Korth, J. Penning, H.R. Rickens, B. Schoeneburg DESY, Hamburg, Germany
	The cryogenic installations on the DESY campus are widely distributed. The liquid Helium (LHE) is produced in a central building. Three cryogenic plants are installed. One is in operation for FLASH the other two are currently in the commissioning phase and will be used for the European XFEL. Thousands of I/O channels are spread over the campus this way. The majority of the I/O devices are standard devices used in process control. The de facto standard for distributed I/O in process controls in Germany is Profibus. So it is obvious to use this bus also for cryogenic controls. Subsequently we developed also special electronics to attach temperature and level readouts to this field bus. Special diagnostic tools are available and permanently attached to the bus. Condition monitoring tools provide diagnostics which enable preventative maintenance planning. Specific tools were developed in Control System Studio (CSS) which is -the- standard tool for configuration, diagnostic and controls for all cryogenic plants. We will describe our experience over the last years with this infrastructure.
	Slides WCO203 [1.116 MB]

WCO204	A Prototype Data Acquisition System of Abnormal RF Waveform at SACLA	database, LLRF, controls, GUI	19
	M. Ishii, M. Kago JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken, Japan T. Fukui RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Innovative Light Sources Division, Hyogo, Japan T. Maruyama RIKEN/SPring-8, Hyogo, Japan T. Ohshima RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, Japan M. Yoshioka SES, Hyogo-pref., Japan
	At SACLA, an event-synchronized data acquisition system had been installed. The system collects shot-by-shot data, such as representative point data of the phase and amplitude of the rf cavity pickup signals, in synchronization with the beam operation cycle. In addition, rf waveform data is collected every 10 minutes. However a collection with several minutes cycle couldn’t catch an abnormal rf waveform that suddenly occurs. To overcome this problem, we have developed a system to capture waveform when some abnormal event occurs. The system consists of the VMEbus systems, a DAQ server, and a NoSQL database system, Cassandra. The VMEbus system detects an abnormal rf waveform, collects all related waveforms with same shot and sends to a DAQ server. All waveforms are stored Cassandra via the DAQ server. The DAQ server keeps data for 2 seconds from current time on memory to complement Cassandra’s eventual consistency model. We constructed a prototype DAQ system with a minimum configuration and checked its performance. We report the requirements and structure of the DAQ system and the test results in this paper.
	Slides WCO204 [1.426 MB]

WCO205	Upgrade of SACLA DAQ System Adapts to Multi-Beamline Operation	controls, experiment, network, laser	22
	K. Okada, T. Abe, Y. Furukawa, T. Hatsui, Y. Joti, T.K. Kameshima, T. Matsumoto, T. Sugimoto, R. Tanaka, M. Yamaga JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken, Japan M. Yabashi RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, Japan
	We report the data acquisition system (DAQ) for user experiments at SACLA (the SPring-8 Angstrom Compact Free Electron Laser). The system provides standardized experimental framework to various XFEL users since March 2012. It is required to store shot-by-shot information synchronized with the XFEL beam of 60Hz at the maximum repetition rate. The data throughput goes up to 6 Gbps with TOF waveforms and/or images (e.g. X-ray diffraction images) from experiments. The data are stored to the hierarchical storage system capable of more than 6 PByte at the last stage. The DAQ system incorporates with prompt data processing performed by a 14 TFlops PC cluster as well as on-line monitoring. In 2014, SACLA will introduce the third beamline to increase the capacity of experiments. On the DAQ side, it is a challenge to operate multiple experiments simultaneously. The control and data stream will be duplicated and separated for beamlines. A new central server to manage each beamline condition in one place will help increase the efficiency of setup procedure and reduce risks of mishandling between beamlines.
	Slides WCO205 [1.472 MB]

WPO003	Setup of a History Storage Engine Based on a Non-Relational Database at ELSA	database, controls, interface, software	34
	D. Proft, F. Frommberger, W. Hillert ELSA, Bonn, Germany
	The electron stretcher facility ELSA provides a beam of unpolarized and polarized electrons of up to 3.2 GeV energy to external hadron physics experiments. Its in house developed distributed computer control system is able to provide real time beam diagnostics as well as steering tasks in one homogeneous environment. Recently it was ported from HP-UX running on three HP workstations to a single Linux personal computer. This upgrade to powerful PC hardware opened up the way for the development of a new archive engine with a noSQL database backend based on Hyptertable. The system is capable of recording every parameter change at any given time. Beside the visualization in a newly developed graphical history data browser, the data can be exported to several programs - for example a diff-like tool to compare and recall settings of the accelerator. This contribution will give details on recent improvements of the control system and the setup of the history storage engine.

WPO005	Progress and Challenges during the Development of the Settings Management System for FAIR	controls, framework, database, ion	40
	H.C. Hüther, J. Fitzek, R. Müller, D. Ondreka GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
	A few years into development of the new control system for FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research), a first version of the new settings management system is available. As a basis, the CERN LSA framework (LHC Software Architecture) is being used and enhanced in collaboration between GSI and CERN. New aspects, like flexible cycle lengths, have already been introduced while concepts for other requirements, like parallel beam operation at FAIR, are being developed. At SIS18, LSA settings management is currently being utilized for testing new machine models and operation modes relevant for FAIR. Based upon experience with SIS18, a generic model for ring accelerators has been created that will be used throughout the new facility. It will also be deployed for commissioning and operation of CRYRING by the end of 2014. During development, new challenges came up. To ease collaboration, the LSA code base has been split into common and institute specific modules. An equivalent solution for the database level is still to be found. Besides technical issues, a data-driven system like LSA requires high-quality data. To ensure this, organizational processes need to be put in place at GSI.
	Poster WPO005 [1.049 MB]

WPO010	A Unified Matlab API for TINE and DOOCS Control Systems at DESY	controls, interface, background, data-management	55
	J. Wilgen, S.M. Meykopff DESY, Hamburg, Germany
	At the European XFEL, MATLAB will play an important role as a programming language for high level controls. We present a standard MATLAB API which provides a unified interface for TINE and DOOCS control systems. It supports a wide variety of datatypes as well as synchronous and asynchronous communication modes.
	Poster WPO010 [0.266 MB]

WPO012	The EMBL Beamline Control Framework BICFROCK	controls, software, PLC, LabView	60
	U. Ristau, S. Fiedler, A. Kolozhvari EMBL, Hamburg, Germany
	The EMBL hosts three Beamlines at the Petra Synchrotron at DESY. The control of the Beamlines is based on a Labview TINE Framework. Working examples of the layered structure of the control software and the signal transport with the Fieldbus based control electronic using Ethercat will be presented as well as the layout of the synchronization implementation of all beamline elements.
	Slides WPO012 [0.877 MB]

WPO021	Renovation of PC-based Console System for J-PARC Main Ring	controls, EPICS, network, GUI	81
	S. Yamada J-PARC, KEK & JAEA, Ibaraki-ken, Japan
	Console system for J-PARC Main Ring (MR) was designed in 2007 and had been used for accelerator commissioning and operation since then. It was composed of 20 diskless thin clients and 10 terminal servers. Both of them are PC-based computers running Scientific Linux (SL) as their operating system. Migration to ordinary fat clients was planned in 2013, triggered by update from SL4 to SL6, based on use experiences of those thin clients. Intel NUC is selected as a result of preliminary investigation. Its evaluation is carried successfully out during commissioning of MR. Presently 10 thin clients have been replaced by fat clients. Migration scenario and technique of managing fat clients are discussed.

WPO027	The Measurement and Monitoring of Spectrum and Wavelength of Coherent Radiation at Novosibirsk Free Electron Laser	radiation, FEL, controls, network	96
	S.S. Serednyakov NSU, Novosibirsk, Russia V.V. Kubarev BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
	The architecture and capabilities of free electron laser radiation spectrum measurement system described in details in this paper. For execution of the measurements the monochromator and step-motor with radiation power sensor are used. As the result of the measurements, the curve of spectrum of radiation is transmitted to control computer. As this subsystem is fully integrated to common FEL control system, the results of measurements – spectrum graph, average wavelength, calculated radiation power, are able to transmit to any another computer on FEL control local area network and also on user stations computers.
	Poster WPO027 [2.250 MB]

WPO028	EPICS BEAST Alarm System Happily Purrs at ANKA Synchrotron Light Source	controls, status, EPICS, monitoring	99
	I. Križnar Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia E. Hertle, E. Huttel, W. Mexner, A.-S. Müller, N.J. Smale KIT, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany S. Marsching Aquenos GmbH, Baden-Baden, Germany
	Funding: ANKA Synchrotron Light Source, KIT, Karlsruhe The control system of the ANKA synchrotron radiation source at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) is adopting new, and converting old, devices into an EPICS control system. New GUI panels are developed in Control System Studio (CSS). EPICS alarming capabilities in connection with the BEAST alarm server tool-kit from the CSS bundle are used as an alarming solution. To accommodate ANKA future requirements as well as ANKA legacy solutions, we have decided to extend the basic functionality of BEAST with additional features in order to manage the alarming for different machine operation states. Since the database of alarm sources is been populated from scratch, we have been able take fresh approach in management and creation of alarm sources to build-up alarm trees. New alarm system is being used, tested and refined and future developed in production environment since end of 2013.
	Poster WPO028 [1.344 MB]

WPO032	Magnet Measurement System Upgrade at PSI	controls, EPICS, software, network	111
	P. Chevtsov, V. Vranković PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
	The magnet measurement system at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) was significantly upgraded in the last few years. At the moment, it consists of automated Hall probe, rotating wire, and vibrating wire setups, which form a very efficient magnet measurement facility. The paper concentrates on the automation hardware and software implementation, which has made it possible not only to significantly increase the performance of the magnet measurement facility at PSI, but also to simplify magnet measurement data handling and processing.
	Poster WPO032 [1.313 MB]

WPO038	A Modular Personnel Safety System for VELA based on Commercial Safety Network Controllers	network, controls, electron, laser	123
	M.D. Hancock, B.G. Martlew STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
	STFC Daresbury Laboratory has recently commissioned VELA (Versatile Electron Linear Accelerator), a high performance electron beam test facility. It will be used to deliver high quality, short pulse electron beams to industrial users to aid in the development of new products in the fields of health care, security, energy and waste processing and also to develop and test novel compact accelerator technologies. In the early stages of the design it was decided to use commercial Safety Network Controllers and I/O to implement the Personnel Safety System in place of the electro-mechanical relay-based system used on previous projects. This provides a high integrity, low cost solution while also allowing the design to be modular, programmable and easily expandable. This paper describes the design and realisation of the VELA Personnel Safety System and considers its future development. In addition, the application of the system to the protection of high-power laser systems and medical accelerators will also be discussed.

TCO101	Benefits, Drawbacks and Challenges During a Collaborative Development of a Settings Management System for CERN and GSI	controls, software, framework, feedback	126
	R. Müller, J. Fitzek, H.C. Hüther GSI, Darmstadt, Germany G. Kruk CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The settings management system LSA (LHC Software Architecture) was originally developed for the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). For FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) a renovation of the GSI control system was necessary. When it was decided in 2008 to use the LSA system for settings management for FAIR, the middle management of the two institutes agreed on a collaborative development. This paper highlights the insights gained during the collaboration, from three different perspectives: organizational aspects of the collaboration, like roles that have been established, planned procedures, the preparation of a formal contract and social aspects to keep people working as a team across institutes. It also shows technical benefits and drawbacks that arise from the collaboration for both institutes as well as challenges that are encountered during development. Furthermore, it provides an insight into aspects of the collaboration which were easy to establish and which still take time.
	Slides TCO101 [0.728 MB]

TCO102	Eplanner Software for Machine Activities Management	software, database, network, synchrotron	129
	B.S.K. Srivastava, R.K. Agrawal RRCAT, Indore (M.P.), India P. Fatnani Raja Ramanna Centre For Advanced Technology, Indore, India
	For Indus-2, a 2.5 GeV Synchrotron Radiation Source, operational at Indore, India, the need was felt for software for easily managing various related activities for avoiding communication gaps among the crew members and clearly bringing out the important communications for machine operation. Typical requirements were to have the facility to enter and display daily, weekly and longer operational calendars, to convey system specific and machine operation related standing instructions, to log and track the faults occurring during the operations and follow up actions on the faults logged etc. Overall, the need was for a system to easily manage the number of jobs related to planning the day to day operations of a national facility. The paper describes such a web based system developed and in use regular use and found extremely useful.
	Slides TCO102 [5.439 MB]

TCO202	Status of Indus-2 Control System	controls, feedback, status, diagnostics	138
	P. Fatnani, A. Bansal Raja Ramanna Centre For Advanced Technology, Indore, India R.K. Agrawal, K.G. Barpande, A. Chauhan, S. Gangopadhyay, P. Gothwal, A.M. Gupta, M. Janardhan, B.N. Merh, R. Mishra, C.P. Navathe, K. Saifee, M. Seema, Y.M. Sheth, B.S.K. Srivastava, R. Yadav RRCAT, Indore (M.P.), India
	Indus-2 is a 2.5 GeV Synchrotron Radiation Source at Indore, India. With 6 beamlines commissioned, several more under installation & commissioning and 5 insertion devices planned, the machine is operated in round the clock mode. With implementation of orbit, tune and bunch feedback systems and many new systems in planning, machine is constantly evolving and so is the control system. The control system software is based on PVSS SCADA running on windows PCs and also integrates other software modules in Labview and Matlab. The control hardware is a combination of VME based control stations interconnected over Ethernet and Profibus. Some recent system enhancements include Parameter deviation alarms, transient data capture system, database improvements and web services. Paper takes a stock of the control system and it's evolution with new systems in the offing.
	Slides TCO202 [6.833 MB]

TCO205	Conceptual Design of the Control System for SPring-8-II	controls, storage-ring, database, framework	144
	R. Tanaka, T. Matsushita, T. Sugimoto, R. Tanaka JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken, Japan T. Fukui RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Innovative Light Sources Division, Hyogo, Japan
	The SPring-8 storage ring was inaugurated 17 years ago in 1997. The storage ring is an 8-GeV synchrotron that functions as a third-generation light source, providing brilliant X-ray beams to a large number of experimental users from all over the world. In recent years, discussions have been held on the necessity of upgrading the current ring to create a diffraction-limited storage ring at the same location. Now, a plan to upgrade the storage ring, called SPring-8-II, has been launched. First, new beam optics capable of storing beams of 6 GeV was designed using a five-bend magnet system to obtain smaller electron beam emittance that would produce coherent X-rays that are brighter than those produced by the current ring. The design of a control system that would meet the performance requirements of the new ring has also started. Equipment control devices are based on factory automation technologies such as PLC and VME, whereas digital data handling with high bandwidths is realized using telecommunication technologies such as xTCA. In this paper, we report on the conceptual design of the control system for SPring-8-II on the basis of the conceptual design report proposed by RIKEN.
	Slides TCO205 [7.572 MB]

FPO006	Integration of Independent Radiation Monitoring System with Main Accelerator Control	radiation, monitoring, controls, hadron	170
	N. Kamikubota, N. Yamamoto KEK, Ibaraki, Japan T. Iitsuka, S.Y. Yoshida Kanto Information Service (KIS), Accelerator Group, Ibaraki, Japan
	The radiation monitoring system of J-PARC was constructed as a part of safety facilities. Thus, it has been operated independently from the main accelerator control system. In fact, the radiation monitoring system consists of two subsystems. The first subsystem developed by JAEA, which covers Linac and RCS ring, is PLC-based. We add a FL-net module to this subsystem to enable one-way data transfer to the accelerator control system. Here FL-net is a device-level communication network using UDP/IP, defined by a Japanese consortium. The second subsystem developed by KEK covers MR ring. It is a CAMAC-based DAQ system. Since this subsystem was difficult to extend, we made signal branches from radiation monitors, and fed them to a new PLC-based DAQ system. As same as the first subsystem, a FL-net module is used for one-way data transfer. In 2013-2014, integration of two subsystems has been carried out. Now radiation monitors can be supervised with the accelerator control system. As a result, accelerator operators can check radiation levels much easier than before. We understand that this is a significant improvement to realize safer operation of J-PARC accelerators.

FPO010	The Software Tools and Capabilities of Diagnostic System for Stability of Magnet Power Supplies at Novosibirsk Free Electron Laser	power-supply, controls, diagnostics, FEL	179
	S.S. Serednyakov BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
	The magnetic system of Novosibirsk Free electron laser containing large amount of magnetic elements, feed by power supplies of different types. The time stability of output current of these power supplies is directly influence on coherent radiation parameters, and operation of whole FEL facility. Therefore, system for diagnostics of power supplies state, integrated to common FEL control system, was developed. The main task of this system is to analyze output current of power supply, determinate its time stability value. Also this system is able to determinate the amplitude and frequency of output current ripples, if they have a place for particular power supply, and display obtained results. The main architecture, some other capabilities, and results of usage of this system, are described in this paper.
	Poster FPO010 [2.527 MB]

FPO016	Status of Operation Data Archiving System Using Hadoop/HBase for J-PARC	distributed, database, status, EPICS	196
	N. Kikuzawa, Y. Kato, A. Yoshii JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan H. Ikeda, N. Ouchi JAEA, Ibaraki-ken, Japan
	J-PARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex) consists of much equipment. In Linac and 3 GeV rapid cycling synchrotron ring (RCS), the data of over the 64,000 EPICS records for these equipment has been collected. The Data volume is about 2 TB in every year, and the stored total data volume is about 10 TB. The data have been being stored by a Relational Data Base (RDB) system using PostgreSQL, but it is not enough in availability, performance, and capability to increase of data volume flexibility. Hadoop/HBase, which is known as a distributed, scalable and big data store, has been proposed for our next-generation archive system to solve these problems. The test system was built and verified about data transition or database utilization. This report shows the current status of the new archive system, and its advantages and problems which have been obtained through our verification.

FPO022	New developments on the FAIR Data Master	controls, network, timing, FPGA	207
	M. Kreider, J. Davies, V. Grout Glyndŵr University, Wrexham, United Kingdom R. Bär, D.H. Beck, M. Kreider, W.W. Terpstra GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
	During the last year, a small scale timing system has been built with a first version of the Data Master. In this paper, we will describe field test progress as well as new design concepts and implementation details of the new prototype to be tested with the CRYRING accelerator timing system. The message management layer has been introduced as a hardware acceleration module for the timely dispatch of control messages. It consists of a priority queue for outgoing messages, combined with a scheduler and network load balancing. This loosens the real-time constraints for the CPUs composing the control messages noticeably, making the control firmware very easy to construct and deterministic. It is further opening perspectives away from the current virtual machine-like implementation on to a specialized programming language for accelerator control. In addition, a streamlined and better fitting model for beam production chains and cycles has been devised for use in the data master firmware. The processing worst case execution time becomes completely calculable, enabling fixed time-slices for safe multiplexing of cycles in all of the CPUs.
	Slides FPO022 [0.890 MB]

FPO028	Web Based Machine Status Display for the Siam Photon Source	status, framework, LabView, synchrotron	216
	N. Suradet, Ch. Dhammatong, S. Klinkhieo, P. Klysubun, C.P. Preecha SLRI, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
	A new machine operation status broadcasting system has been developed for Siam Photon Source (SPS), a 1.2 GeV synchrotron light source in Thailand. The system is implemented using web-based interface, and broadcasts the information over the SPS website, mobile application, as well as local TV network within the SPS facility, allowing users as well as technical personnel to easily access a variety of information related to the machine via web browsers and other mediums. The new system also provides supporting message services for alarm, event notification, and other operational necessities. In this report, the design of web and mobile applications, which are based on HTML5, CSS3, and adopts PHP, AJAX, Bootstrap framework (for responsive design), jQuery, High charts JS, Twitter widget, and others, will be described. The details of the hardware and software configurations, users requirements and satisfactions, as well as suggestions on further improvements, will be presented.
	Slides FPO028 [1.338 MB]
	Poster FPO028 [2.386 MB]

FPO030	Control System Software Environment and Integration for the TPS	controls, EPICS, interface, toolkit	222
	Y.-S. Cheng, J. Chen, P.C. Chiu, K.T. Hsu, C.H. Huang, C.H. Kuo, C.Y. Liao, C.Y. Wu NSRRC, Hsinchu, Taiwan
	The TPS (Taiwan Photon Source) is the latest generation 3 GeV synchrotron light source, and the commissioning starts from third quarter of 2014. The EPICS is adopted as control system framework for the TPS. The various EPICS IOCs have implemented for each subsystem. The control system software environment has been established and integrated specifically for the TPS commissioning. The various purposed operation interfaces have been created and mainly include the function of setting, reading, save, restore and etc. The database related applications have been built, and the applications include archive system, alarm system, logbook, Web and etc. The high level applications which are depended upon properties of each subsystem have been developed and are in test phase. The efforts will be summarized at this report.
	Slides FPO030 [1.533 MB]

FPO031	Power Supplies Transient Recorders for Post-Mortem Analysis of BPM Orbit Dumps at Petra-III	controls, synchrotron, emittance, power-supply	225
	G.K. Sahoo, P.K. Bartkiewicz, A. Kling, B. Pawlowski DESY, Hamburg, Germany
	PETRA-III is a 3rd generation synchrotron light source dedicated to users at 14 beam lines with 30 instruments. The storage ring is presently modified to add 12 beam lines. PETRA III was operated with several filling modes such as 40, 60, 480 and 960 bunches with a total current of 100mA at electron beam energy of 6 GeV. The horizontal beam emittance is 1 nmrad while a coupling of 1% amounts to a vertical emittance of 10 pmrad. During a user run Machine Protection System (MPS) may trigger an unscheduled beam dump if transients in the current of magnet power supplies are detected which are above permissible limits. The trigger of MPS stops the ring buffers of the 226 BPM electronics where the last 16384 turns just before the dump are stored. These data and transient recorder data of Magnet Power Supply Controllers are available for a post-mortem analysis. Here we discuss in detail the functionality of a Java GUI used to investigate the transient behavior of the differences between set and readout values of different power supplies to find out the responsible power supply that might have led to emittance growth, fluctuations in orbits or beam dumps seen in a post-mortem analysis.

FCO203	Making it all Work for Operators	controls, EPICS, GUI, injection	240
	I. Križnar Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia E. Hertle, E. Huttel, W. Mexner, A.-S. Müller, N.J. Smale KIT, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany S. Marsching Aquenos GmbH, Baden-Baden, Germany
	Funding: ANKA Synchrotron Light Source, KIT, Karlsruhe As the control system of the ANKA synchrotron radiation source at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) is being slowly upgraded it can become, at key stages, temporarily a mosaic of old and new panels while the operator learns to move across to the new system. With the development of general purpose tools, and careful planning of both the final and transition GUIs, we have been able to actually simplify the working environment for machine operators. In this paper we will explain concepts, guides and tools in which GUIs for operators are developed and deployed at ANKA.
	Slides FCO203 [0.663 MB]

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WCO102

Controls Middleware for FAIR

controls, framework, CORBA, software

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V. Rapp
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
W. Sliwinski
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

With the FAIR complex, the control systems at GSI will face new scalability challenges due to significant amount of new hardware coming with the new facility. Although, the old systems have proven themselves as sustainable and reliable, they are based on technologies, which have become obsolete years ago. During the FAIR construction time and the associated shutdown GSI will replace multiple components of the control system. The success in the integration of CERNs FESA and LSA frameworks had moved GSI to extend the cooperation with the controls middleware and especially Remote Device Access (RDA) and Java API for Parameter Control (JAPC) frameworks. However, the current version of RDA is based on CORBA technology, which itself, can be considered obsolete. Consequently, it will be replaced by a newer version (RDA3), which will be based on ZeroMQ, and will offer a new improved API based on the experience from previous usage. The collaboration between GSI and CERN shows that new RDA is capable to comply with requirements of both environments. In this paper we present general architecture of the new RDA and depict its integration in the GSI control system.

Slides WCO102 [0.323 MB]

WCO103

Integration of New Power Supply Controllers in the Existing Elettra Control System

controls, TANGO, power-supply, interface

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C. Scafuri, S. Cleva
Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy

The Elettra control system has been running since 1993. The controllers of the storage ring power supplies, still the original ones, have become obsolete and are no more under service. A renewal to overcome these limitations is foreseen. A prototype of the new controllers based on the BeagleBone embedded board and an in-house designed ADC/DAC carrier board, has been installed and tested in Elettra. A Tango device server running in the BeagleBone is in charge of controlling the power supply. In order to transparently integrate the new Tango controlled power supplies with the existing Remote Procedure Call (RPC) based control system, a number of software tools have been developed, mostly in the form of Tango devices and protocol bridges. This approach allows us to keep using legacy machine physics programs when integrating the new Tango based controllers and to carry out the upgrade gradually with less impact on the machine operation schedule.

Slides WCO103 [1.228 MB]

WCO203

Profibus in Process Controls

controls, diagnostics, cryogenics, EPICS

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M.R. Clausen, T. Boeckmann, J. Hatje, O. Korth, J. Penning, H.R. Rickens, B. Schoeneburg
DESY, Hamburg, Germany

The cryogenic installations on the DESY campus are widely distributed. The liquid Helium (LHE) is produced in a central building. Three cryogenic plants are installed. One is in operation for FLASH the other two are currently in the commissioning phase and will be used for the European XFEL. Thousands of I/O channels are spread over the campus this way. The majority of the I/O devices are standard devices used in process control. The de facto standard for distributed I/O in process controls in Germany is Profibus. So it is obvious to use this bus also for cryogenic controls. Subsequently we developed also special electronics to attach temperature and level readouts to this field bus. Special diagnostic tools are available and permanently attached to the bus. Condition monitoring tools provide diagnostics which enable preventative maintenance planning. Specific tools were developed in Control System Studio (CSS) which is -the- standard tool for configuration, diagnostic and controls for all cryogenic plants. We will describe our experience over the last years with this infrastructure.

Slides WCO203 [1.116 MB]

WCO204

A Prototype Data Acquisition System of Abnormal RF Waveform at SACLA

database, LLRF, controls, GUI

19

M. Ishii, M. Kago
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken, Japan
T. Fukui
RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Innovative Light Sources Division, Hyogo, Japan
T. Maruyama
RIKEN/SPring-8, Hyogo, Japan
T. Ohshima
RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, Japan
M. Yoshioka
SES, Hyogo-pref., Japan

At SACLA, an event-synchronized data acquisition system had been installed. The system collects shot-by-shot data, such as representative point data of the phase and amplitude of the rf cavity pickup signals, in synchronization with the beam operation cycle. In addition, rf waveform data is collected every 10 minutes. However a collection with several minutes cycle couldn’t catch an abnormal rf waveform that suddenly occurs. To overcome this problem, we have developed a system to capture waveform when some abnormal event occurs. The system consists of the VMEbus systems, a DAQ server, and a NoSQL database system, Cassandra. The VMEbus system detects an abnormal rf waveform, collects all related waveforms with same shot and sends to a DAQ server. All waveforms are stored Cassandra via the DAQ server. The DAQ server keeps data for 2 seconds from current time on memory to complement Cassandra’s eventual consistency model. We constructed a prototype DAQ system with a minimum configuration and checked its performance. We report the requirements and structure of the DAQ system and the test results in this paper.

Slides WCO204 [1.426 MB]

WCO205

Upgrade of SACLA DAQ System Adapts to Multi-Beamline Operation

controls, experiment, network, laser

22

K. Okada, T. Abe, Y. Furukawa, T. Hatsui, Y. Joti, T.K. Kameshima, T. Matsumoto, T. Sugimoto, R. Tanaka, M. Yamaga
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken, Japan
M. Yabashi
RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo, Japan

We report the data acquisition system (DAQ) for user experiments at SACLA (the SPring-8 Angstrom Compact Free Electron Laser). The system provides standardized experimental framework to various XFEL users since March 2012. It is required to store shot-by-shot information synchronized with the XFEL beam of 60Hz at the maximum repetition rate. The data throughput goes up to 6 Gbps with TOF waveforms and/or images (e.g. X-ray diffraction images) from experiments. The data are stored to the hierarchical storage system capable of more than 6 PByte at the last stage. The DAQ system incorporates with prompt data processing performed by a 14 TFlops PC cluster as well as on-line monitoring. In 2014, SACLA will introduce the third beamline to increase the capacity of experiments. On the DAQ side, it is a challenge to operate multiple experiments simultaneously. The control and data stream will be duplicated and separated for beamlines. A new central server to manage each beamline condition in one place will help increase the efficiency of setup procedure and reduce risks of mishandling between beamlines.

Slides WCO205 [1.472 MB]

WPO003

Setup of a History Storage Engine Based on a Non-Relational Database at ELSA

database, controls, interface, software

34

D. Proft, F. Frommberger, W. Hillert
ELSA, Bonn, Germany

The electron stretcher facility ELSA provides a beam of unpolarized and polarized electrons of up to 3.2 GeV energy to external hadron physics experiments. Its in house developed distributed computer control system is able to provide real time beam diagnostics as well as steering tasks in one homogeneous environment. Recently it was ported from HP-UX running on three HP workstations to a single Linux personal computer. This upgrade to powerful PC hardware opened up the way for the development of a new archive engine with a noSQL database backend based on Hyptertable. The system is capable of recording every parameter change at any given time. Beside the visualization in a newly developed graphical history data browser, the data can be exported to several programs - for example a diff-like tool to compare and recall settings of the accelerator. This contribution will give details on recent improvements of the control system and the setup of the history storage engine.

WPO005

Progress and Challenges during the Development of the Settings Management System for FAIR

controls, framework, database, ion

40

H.C. Hüther, J. Fitzek, R. Müller, D. Ondreka
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany

A few years into development of the new control system for FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research), a first version of the new settings management system is available. As a basis, the CERN LSA framework (LHC Software Architecture) is being used and enhanced in collaboration between GSI and CERN. New aspects, like flexible cycle lengths, have already been introduced while concepts for other requirements, like parallel beam operation at FAIR, are being developed. At SIS18, LSA settings management is currently being utilized for testing new machine models and operation modes relevant for FAIR. Based upon experience with SIS18, a generic model for ring accelerators has been created that will be used throughout the new facility. It will also be deployed for commissioning and operation of CRYRING by the end of 2014. During development, new challenges came up. To ease collaboration, the LSA code base has been split into common and institute specific modules. An equivalent solution for the database level is still to be found. Besides technical issues, a data-driven system like LSA requires high-quality data. To ensure this, organizational processes need to be put in place at GSI.

Poster WPO005 [1.049 MB]

WPO010

A Unified Matlab API for TINE and DOOCS Control Systems at DESY

controls, interface, background, data-management

55

J. Wilgen, S.M. Meykopff
DESY, Hamburg, Germany

At the European XFEL, MATLAB will play an important role as a programming language for high level controls. We present a standard MATLAB API which provides a unified interface for TINE and DOOCS control systems. It supports a wide variety of datatypes as well as synchronous and asynchronous communication modes.

Poster WPO010 [0.266 MB]

WPO012

The EMBL Beamline Control Framework BICFROCK

controls, software, PLC, LabView

60

U. Ristau, S. Fiedler, A. Kolozhvari
EMBL, Hamburg, Germany

The EMBL hosts three Beamlines at the Petra Synchrotron at DESY. The control of the Beamlines is based on a Labview TINE Framework. Working examples of the layered structure of the control software and the signal transport with the Fieldbus based control electronic using Ethercat will be presented as well as the layout of the synchronization implementation of all beamline elements.

Slides WPO012 [0.877 MB]

WPO021

Renovation of PC-based Console System for J-PARC Main Ring

controls, EPICS, network, GUI

81

S. Yamada
J-PARC, KEK & JAEA, Ibaraki-ken, Japan

Console system for J-PARC Main Ring (MR) was designed in 2007 and had been used for accelerator commissioning and operation since then. It was composed of 20 diskless thin clients and 10 terminal servers. Both of them are PC-based computers running Scientific Linux (SL) as their operating system. Migration to ordinary fat clients was planned in 2013, triggered by update from SL4 to SL6, based on use experiences of those thin clients. Intel NUC is selected as a result of preliminary investigation. Its evaluation is carried successfully out during commissioning of MR. Presently 10 thin clients have been replaced by fat clients. Migration scenario and technique of managing fat clients are discussed.

WPO027

The Measurement and Monitoring of Spectrum and Wavelength of Coherent Radiation at Novosibirsk Free Electron Laser

radiation, FEL, controls, network

96

S.S. Serednyakov
NSU, Novosibirsk, Russia
V.V. Kubarev
BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia

The architecture and capabilities of free electron laser radiation spectrum measurement system described in details in this paper. For execution of the measurements the monochromator and step-motor with radiation power sensor are used. As the result of the measurements, the curve of spectrum of radiation is transmitted to control computer. As this subsystem is fully integrated to common FEL control system, the results of measurements – spectrum graph, average wavelength, calculated radiation power, are able to transmit to any another computer on FEL control local area network and also on user stations computers.

Poster WPO027 [2.250 MB]

WPO028

EPICS BEAST Alarm System Happily Purrs at ANKA Synchrotron Light Source

controls, status, EPICS, monitoring

99

I. Križnar
Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia
E. Hertle, E. Huttel, W. Mexner, A.-S. Müller, N.J. Smale
KIT, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
S. Marsching
Aquenos GmbH, Baden-Baden, Germany

Funding: ANKA Synchrotron Light Source, KIT, Karlsruhe
The control system of the ANKA synchrotron radiation source at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) is adopting new, and converting old, devices into an EPICS control system. New GUI panels are developed in Control System Studio (CSS). EPICS alarming capabilities in connection with the BEAST alarm server tool-kit from the CSS bundle are used as an alarming solution. To accommodate ANKA future requirements as well as ANKA legacy solutions, we have decided to extend the basic functionality of BEAST with additional features in order to manage the alarming for different machine operation states. Since the database of alarm sources is been populated from scratch, we have been able take fresh approach in management and creation of alarm sources to build-up alarm trees. New alarm system is being used, tested and refined and future developed in production environment since end of 2013.

Poster WPO028 [1.344 MB]

WPO032

Magnet Measurement System Upgrade at PSI

controls, EPICS, software, network

111

P. Chevtsov, V. Vranković
PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland

The magnet measurement system at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) was significantly upgraded in the last few years. At the moment, it consists of automated Hall probe, rotating wire, and vibrating wire setups, which form a very efficient magnet measurement facility. The paper concentrates on the automation hardware and software implementation, which has made it possible not only to significantly increase the performance of the magnet measurement facility at PSI, but also to simplify magnet measurement data handling and processing.

Poster WPO032 [1.313 MB]

WPO038

A Modular Personnel Safety System for VELA based on Commercial Safety Network Controllers

network, controls, electron, laser

123

M.D. Hancock, B.G. Martlew
STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom

STFC Daresbury Laboratory has recently commissioned VELA (Versatile Electron Linear Accelerator), a high performance electron beam test facility. It will be used to deliver high quality, short pulse electron beams to industrial users to aid in the development of new products in the fields of health care, security, energy and waste processing and also to develop and test novel compact accelerator technologies. In the early stages of the design it was decided to use commercial Safety Network Controllers and I/O to implement the Personnel Safety System in place of the electro-mechanical relay-based system used on previous projects. This provides a high integrity, low cost solution while also allowing the design to be modular, programmable and easily expandable. This paper describes the design and realisation of the VELA Personnel Safety System and considers its future development. In addition, the application of the system to the protection of high-power laser systems and medical accelerators will also be discussed.

TCO101

Benefits, Drawbacks and Challenges During a Collaborative Development of a Settings Management System for CERN and GSI

controls, software, framework, feedback

126

R. Müller, J. Fitzek, H.C. Hüther
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
G. Kruk
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The settings management system LSA (LHC Software Architecture) was originally developed for the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). For FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) a renovation of the GSI control system was necessary. When it was decided in 2008 to use the LSA system for settings management for FAIR, the middle management of the two institutes agreed on a collaborative development. This paper highlights the insights gained during the collaboration, from three different perspectives: organizational aspects of the collaboration, like roles that have been established, planned procedures, the preparation of a formal contract and social aspects to keep people working as a team across institutes. It also shows technical benefits and drawbacks that arise from the collaboration for both institutes as well as challenges that are encountered during development. Furthermore, it provides an insight into aspects of the collaboration which were easy to establish and which still take time.

Slides TCO101 [0.728 MB]

TCO102

Eplanner Software for Machine Activities Management

software, database, network, synchrotron

129

B.S.K. Srivastava, R.K. Agrawal
RRCAT, Indore (M.P.), India
P. Fatnani
Raja Ramanna Centre For Advanced Technology, Indore, India

For Indus-2, a 2.5 GeV Synchrotron Radiation Source, operational at Indore, India, the need was felt for software for easily managing various related activities for avoiding communication gaps among the crew members and clearly bringing out the important communications for machine operation. Typical requirements were to have the facility to enter and display daily, weekly and longer operational calendars, to convey system specific and machine operation related standing instructions, to log and track the faults occurring during the operations and follow up actions on the faults logged etc. Overall, the need was for a system to easily manage the number of jobs related to planning the day to day operations of a national facility. The paper describes such a web based system developed and in use regular use and found extremely useful.

Slides TCO102 [5.439 MB]

TCO202

Status of Indus-2 Control System

controls, feedback, status, diagnostics

138

P. Fatnani, A. Bansal
Raja Ramanna Centre For Advanced Technology, Indore, India
R.K. Agrawal, K.G. Barpande, A. Chauhan, S. Gangopadhyay, P. Gothwal, A.M. Gupta, M. Janardhan, B.N. Merh, R. Mishra, C.P. Navathe, K. Saifee, M. Seema, Y.M. Sheth, B.S.K. Srivastava, R. Yadav
RRCAT, Indore (M.P.), India

Indus-2 is a 2.5 GeV Synchrotron Radiation Source at Indore, India. With 6 beamlines commissioned, several more under installation & commissioning and 5 insertion devices planned, the machine is operated in round the clock mode. With implementation of orbit, tune and bunch feedback systems and many new systems in planning, machine is constantly evolving and so is the control system. The control system software is based on PVSS SCADA running on windows PCs and also integrates other software modules in Labview and Matlab. The control hardware is a combination of VME based control stations interconnected over Ethernet and Profibus. Some recent system enhancements include Parameter deviation alarms, transient data capture system, database improvements and web services. Paper takes a stock of the control system and it's evolution with new systems in the offing.

Slides TCO202 [6.833 MB]

TCO205

Conceptual Design of the Control System for SPring-8-II

controls, storage-ring, database, framework

144

R. Tanaka, T. Matsushita, T. Sugimoto, R. Tanaka
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken, Japan
T. Fukui
RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Innovative Light Sources Division, Hyogo, Japan

The SPring-8 storage ring was inaugurated 17 years ago in 1997. The storage ring is an 8-GeV synchrotron that functions as a third-generation light source, providing brilliant X-ray beams to a large number of experimental users from all over the world. In recent years, discussions have been held on the necessity of upgrading the current ring to create a diffraction-limited storage ring at the same location. Now, a plan to upgrade the storage ring, called SPring-8-II, has been launched. First, new beam optics capable of storing beams of 6 GeV was designed using a five-bend magnet system to obtain smaller electron beam emittance that would produce coherent X-rays that are brighter than those produced by the current ring. The design of a control system that would meet the performance requirements of the new ring has also started. Equipment control devices are based on factory automation technologies such as PLC and VME, whereas digital data handling with high bandwidths is realized using telecommunication technologies such as xTCA. In this paper, we report on the conceptual design of the control system for SPring-8-II on the basis of the conceptual design report proposed by RIKEN.

Slides TCO205 [7.572 MB]

FPO006

Integration of Independent Radiation Monitoring System with Main Accelerator Control

radiation, monitoring, controls, hadron

170

N. Kamikubota, N. Yamamoto
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
T. Iitsuka, S.Y. Yoshida
Kanto Information Service (KIS), Accelerator Group, Ibaraki, Japan

The radiation monitoring system of J-PARC was constructed as a part of safety facilities. Thus, it has been operated independently from the main accelerator control system. In fact, the radiation monitoring system consists of two subsystems. The first subsystem developed by JAEA, which covers Linac and RCS ring, is PLC-based. We add a FL-net module to this subsystem to enable one-way data transfer to the accelerator control system. Here FL-net is a device-level communication network using UDP/IP, defined by a Japanese consortium. The second subsystem developed by KEK covers MR ring. It is a CAMAC-based DAQ system. Since this subsystem was difficult to extend, we made signal branches from radiation monitors, and fed them to a new PLC-based DAQ system. As same as the first subsystem, a FL-net module is used for one-way data transfer. In 2013-2014, integration of two subsystems has been carried out. Now radiation monitors can be supervised with the accelerator control system. As a result, accelerator operators can check radiation levels much easier than before. We understand that this is a significant improvement to realize safer operation of J-PARC accelerators.

FPO010

The Software Tools and Capabilities of Diagnostic System for Stability of Magnet Power Supplies at Novosibirsk Free Electron Laser

power-supply, controls, diagnostics, FEL

179

S.S. Serednyakov
BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia

The magnetic system of Novosibirsk Free electron laser containing large amount of magnetic elements, feed by power supplies of different types. The time stability of output current of these power supplies is directly influence on coherent radiation parameters, and operation of whole FEL facility. Therefore, system for diagnostics of power supplies state, integrated to common FEL control system, was developed. The main task of this system is to analyze output current of power supply, determinate its time stability value. Also this system is able to determinate the amplitude and frequency of output current ripples, if they have a place for particular power supply, and display obtained results. The main architecture, some other capabilities, and results of usage of this system, are described in this paper.

Poster FPO010 [2.527 MB]

FPO016

Status of Operation Data Archiving System Using Hadoop/HBase for J-PARC

distributed, database, status, EPICS

196

N. Kikuzawa, Y. Kato, A. Yoshii
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan
H. Ikeda, N. Ouchi
JAEA, Ibaraki-ken, Japan

J-PARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex) consists of much equipment. In Linac and 3 GeV rapid cycling synchrotron ring (RCS), the data of over the 64,000 EPICS records for these equipment has been collected. The Data volume is about 2 TB in every year, and the stored total data volume is about 10 TB. The data have been being stored by a Relational Data Base (RDB) system using PostgreSQL, but it is not enough in availability, performance, and capability to increase of data volume flexibility. Hadoop/HBase, which is known as a distributed, scalable and big data store, has been proposed for our next-generation archive system to solve these problems. The test system was built and verified about data transition or database utilization. This report shows the current status of the new archive system, and its advantages and problems which have been obtained through our verification.

FPO022

New developments on the FAIR Data Master

controls, network, timing, FPGA

207

M. Kreider, J. Davies, V. Grout
Glyndŵr University, Wrexham, United Kingdom
R. Bär, D.H. Beck, M. Kreider, W.W. Terpstra
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany

During the last year, a small scale timing system has been built with a first version of the Data Master. In this paper, we will describe field test progress as well as new design concepts and implementation details of the new prototype to be tested with the CRYRING accelerator timing system. The message management layer has been introduced as a hardware acceleration module for the timely dispatch of control messages. It consists of a priority queue for outgoing messages, combined with a scheduler and network load balancing. This loosens the real-time constraints for the CPUs composing the control messages noticeably, making the control firmware very easy to construct and deterministic. It is further opening perspectives away from the current virtual machine-like implementation on to a specialized programming language for accelerator control. In addition, a streamlined and better fitting model for beam production chains and cycles has been devised for use in the data master firmware. The processing worst case execution time becomes completely calculable, enabling fixed time-slices for safe multiplexing of cycles in all of the CPUs.

Slides FPO022 [0.890 MB]

FPO028

Web Based Machine Status Display for the Siam Photon Source

status, framework, LabView, synchrotron

216

N. Suradet, Ch. Dhammatong, S. Klinkhieo, P. Klysubun, C.P. Preecha
SLRI, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand

A new machine operation status broadcasting system has been developed for Siam Photon Source (SPS), a 1.2 GeV synchrotron light source in Thailand. The system is implemented using web-based interface, and broadcasts the information over the SPS website, mobile application, as well as local TV network within the SPS facility, allowing users as well as technical personnel to easily access a variety of information related to the machine via web browsers and other mediums. The new system also provides supporting message services for alarm, event notification, and other operational necessities. In this report, the design of web and mobile applications, which are based on HTML5, CSS3, and adopts PHP, AJAX, Bootstrap framework (for responsive design), jQuery, High charts JS, Twitter widget, and others, will be described. The details of the hardware and software configurations, users requirements and satisfactions, as well as suggestions on further improvements, will be presented.

Slides FPO028 [1.338 MB]

Poster FPO028 [2.386 MB]

FPO030

Control System Software Environment and Integration for the TPS

controls, EPICS, interface, toolkit

222

Y.-S. Cheng, J. Chen, P.C. Chiu, K.T. Hsu, C.H. Huang, C.H. Kuo, C.Y. Liao, C.Y. Wu
NSRRC, Hsinchu, Taiwan

The TPS (Taiwan Photon Source) is the latest generation 3 GeV synchrotron light source, and the commissioning starts from third quarter of 2014. The EPICS is adopted as control system framework for the TPS. The various EPICS IOCs have implemented for each subsystem. The control system software environment has been established and integrated specifically for the TPS commissioning. The various purposed operation interfaces have been created and mainly include the function of setting, reading, save, restore and etc. The database related applications have been built, and the applications include archive system, alarm system, logbook, Web and etc. The high level applications which are depended upon properties of each subsystem have been developed and are in test phase. The efforts will be summarized at this report.

Slides FPO030 [1.533 MB]

FPO031

Power Supplies Transient Recorders for Post-Mortem Analysis of BPM Orbit Dumps at Petra-III

controls, synchrotron, emittance, power-supply

225

G.K. Sahoo, P.K. Bartkiewicz, A. Kling, B. Pawlowski
DESY, Hamburg, Germany

PETRA-III is a 3rd generation synchrotron light source dedicated to users at 14 beam lines with 30 instruments. The storage ring is presently modified to add 12 beam lines. PETRA III was operated with several filling modes such as 40, 60, 480 and 960 bunches with a total current of 100mA at electron beam energy of 6 GeV. The horizontal beam emittance is 1 nmrad while a coupling of 1% amounts to a vertical emittance of 10 pmrad. During a user run Machine Protection System (MPS) may trigger an unscheduled beam dump if transients in the current of magnet power supplies are detected which are above permissible limits. The trigger of MPS stops the ring buffers of the 226 BPM electronics where the last 16384 turns just before the dump are stored. These data and transient recorder data of Magnet Power Supply Controllers are available for a post-mortem analysis. Here we discuss in detail the functionality of a Java GUI used to investigate the transient behavior of the differences between set and readout values of different power supplies to find out the responsible power supply that might have led to emittance growth, fluctuations in orbits or beam dumps seen in a post-mortem analysis.

FCO203

Making it all Work for Operators

controls, EPICS, GUI, injection

240

I. Križnar
Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia
E. Hertle, E. Huttel, W. Mexner, A.-S. Müller, N.J. Smale
KIT, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
S. Marsching
Aquenos GmbH, Baden-Baden, Germany

Funding: ANKA Synchrotron Light Source, KIT, Karlsruhe
As the control system of the ANKA synchrotron radiation source at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) is being slowly upgraded it can become, at key stages, temporarily a mosaic of old and new panels while the operator learns to move across to the new system. With the development of general purpose tools, and careful planning of both the final and transition GUIs, we have been able to actually simplify the working environment for machine operators. In this paper we will explain concepts, guides and tools in which GUIs for operators are developed and deployed at ANKA.

Slides FCO203 [0.663 MB]