| Paper |
Title |
Page |
| TUP033 |
The Virtual UNICOS Process Expert: Integration of Artificial Intelligence Tools in Industrial Control Systems
|
158 |
| |
- I. Vilches Calvo, R. Barillere, G. Thomas
CERN, Geneva
|
|
| |
UNICOS is a CERN framework which was developed to produce control applications. It provides operators with ways to interact with all items of the process from the most simple (e.g. I/O channels) to the most abstract object (e.g. a sub part of the plant). Support for fine grained operations is essential during commissioning and for abnormal situation recovery. The Virtual UNICOS Process Expert project aims at providing operators with means to handle difficult cases for which the intervention of process experts is usually required. The main idea of the project is to use the openness of the UNICOS-based applications to integrate tools (e.g. Artificial Intelligence tools) that will act as process experts to analyze complex situations, to propose and to execute smooth recovery procedures. The paper focuses on the first version of the software suite which was developed for the LHC Experiments Gas Control Systems (GCS) and the problems operators are faced with. Then the focus moves to the description of the tools and their integration in the UNICOS architecture. Finally, it describes the benefits of the selected approach and ends up with hints about future evolutions.
|
|
|
Poster
|
|