Author: Surace, G.
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S13MMI04 The Elettra Man-Machine Interface 460
 
  • F. Potepan, M. Mignacco, G. Surace
    Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy
  
  ELET­TRA is a third gen­er­a­tion Syn­chro­tron Light Source under con­struc­tion in Tri­este (Italy), with beam en­er­gies be­tween 1.5 and 2 GeV. Two net­works con­nect three lay­ers of com­put­ers in a fully dis­trib­uted ar­chi­tec­ture. An er­gonomic and uni­fied ap­proach in the re­al­iza­tion of the human in­ter­face for the ELET­TRA stor­age ring has led to the adop­tion of ar­ti­fi­cial re­al­ity cri­te­ria for the de­f­i­n­i­tion of the sys­tem syn­op­tic rep­re­sen­ta­tion and user in­ter­ac­tion. Users can nav­i­gate in­side a graphic data­base of the whole sys­tem and in­ter­ac­tively edit spe­cific vir­tual con­trol pan­els to op­er­ate on the con­trolled equip­ment. UNIX work­sta­tions with ex­tended graphic ca­pa­bil­i­ties as op­er­a­tor con­soles are used in the im­ple­men­ta­tion of the PSI (Pro­gram­ma­ble Syn­op­tic In­ter­face), that was de­vel­oped on top of X11 and the Pro­gram­mer’s Hi­er­ar­chi­cal In­ter­ac­tive Graph­ics Sys­tem (PHIGS) stan­dards.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS1991-S13MMI04  
About • Received ※ 11 November 1991 — Accepted ※ 20 November 1991 — Issued ※ 04 December 1992  
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