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TUCPA05	Laser Damage Image Pre-processing Based on Total Variation	ion, optics, laser, electron	272
	J. Luo, Z. Ni, X. Xie, X. Zhou CAEP, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
	The inspection and tracking of laser-induced damages of optics play a significant role in high-power laser systems. Laser-induced defects or flaws on the surfaces of optics are presented in images acquired by specific charge coupled devices (CCDs), hence the identification of defects from laser damage images is essential. Despite a great effort we have made to improve the imaging results, the defect identification is a challenging task. The proposed research focuses on the pre-processing of laser damage images, which assists identifying optic defects. We formulate the image pre-processing as a total variation (TV) based image reconstruction problem, and further develop an alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm to solve it. The use of TV regularization makes the pre-processed image sharper by preserving the edges or boundaries more accurately. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of this method.
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TUPHA004	Procedures of Software Integration Test and Release for ASTRI SST-2m Prototype Proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array	ion, software, controls, hardware	370
	V. Conforti, A. Bulgarelli, V. Fioretti, F. Gianotti, G. Malaguti, M. Trifoglio INAF, Bologna, Italy E. Antolini Università degli di Perugia, Perugia, Italy L.A. Antonelli, S. Gallozzi, S. Lombardi, F. Lucarelli, M. Mastropietro, V. Testa INAF O.A. Roma, Roma, Italy M. Bartolini, A. Orlati INAF - IRA, Bologna, Italy P. Bruno, A. Costa, A. Grillo, F. Vitello INAF-OACT, Catania, Italy R. Canestrari, J. Schwarz, S. Scuderi, S. Vercellone INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Merate, Italy O. Catalano, P. Sangiorgi INAF IASF Palermo, Palermo, Italy F. Russo INAF O.A. Torino, Pino Torinese, Italy G. Tosti INFN-PG, Perugia, Italy
	Funding: This work is supported by the Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research (MIUR) with funds specifically assigned to the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project is an international initiative to build a next generation ground-based observatory for very high energy gamma-rays. Three classes of telescopes with different mirror size will be located in the northern and southern hemispheres. The ASTRI mini-array of CTA preproduction is one of the small sized telescopes mini-arrays proposed to be installed at the CTA southern site. The ASTRI mini-array will consist of nine units based on the end-to-end ASTRI SST-2M prototype already installed on Mt. Etna (Italy). The mini-array software system (MASS) supports the end to end ASTRI SST-2M prototype and miniarray operations. The ASTRI software integration team defined the procedures to perform effectively the integration test and release activities. The developer has to properly use the repository tree and branches according to the development status. We require that the software includes also specific sections for automated tests and that the software is well tested (in simulated and real system) before any release. Here we present the method adopted to release the first MASS version to support the ASTRI SST-2M prototype test and operation activities. * conforti@iasfbo.inaf.it
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TUPHA080	New Data Acquisition System Implemented Based on MTCA.4 Form Factor for KSTAR Diagnostic System	ion, diagnostics, controls, real-time	593
	T.G. Lee, J.S. Hong, G.I. Kwon, W.R. Lee, T.H. Tak NFRI, Daejon, Republic of Korea
	In Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR), various diagnostics systems were operated from the first plasma in 2008. Many diagnostic devices have been installed for measuring the various plasma properties such as plasma current, magnetic current, electron density, electron temperature, impurity, and so on. The DAQ system for measuring the various plasma properties were developed with various form factor digitizer such as VME, CPCI, PXI, VXI. and PCIe. These complicated form factors installed on KSTAR have difficulties with hardware management, software management and performance upgrades. In order to control real-time systems using several diagnostic signals, the real-time control system is required to share the data without delay between the diagnostic measurement system and the real-time control system without branch one signal. Therefore, we developed the Multifunction Control Unit (KMCU) as the standard control system MTCA.4 form-factor and implemented the various diagnostic DAQ system using KMCU V2, that is KMCU-Z30. This paper will present the implementation of KSTAR diagnostic DAQ systems configured with KMCU based on MTCA.4 and their operating results.
	Poster TUPHA080 [1.779 MB]
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TUPHA130	Design and Development of the Control System for a Compact Carbon-14 AMS Facility	ion, controls, interface, network	722
	K.N. Li, Y.W. Bao, M. He, Y.M. Hu, S. Jiang, S.Y. Su, Q.B. You, J.M. Zhou CIAE, Beijing, People's Republic of China
	Funding: Beijing Science and Technology Committee A compact AMS facility which is special used for further analyzing atmospheric pollution especially in north China via carbon-14 measurement was developed at CIAE (China Institute of Atomic Energy). This machine is a single acceleration stage AMS, running with the highest accelerate voltage of 200kV. The control system is based on distributed Ethernet control system, using standard TCP/IP protocol as main communication protocol. In order to connect to the main control network freely, device-level data-link layers were developed also. A LabVIEW client, developing virtual machine applied environment, provides friendly graphical user interface for the devices management and measurement data processing.
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TUPHA167	Tango Web Access Modules and Web Clients for NICA Control System	ion, TANGO, controls, operation	806
	G.S. Sedykh, V.G. Elkin JINR/VBLHEP, Dubna, Moscow region, Russia E.V. Gorbachev JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
	NICA (Nuclotron-based Ion Collider Facility) is a new accelerator complex designed at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia) to study properties of dense baryonic matter. The report describes Tango-modules designed at JINR to provide web-access to Tango-based control system. RestDS is a lightweight Tango REST service, developed in C++ with Boost and OpenSSL libraries. It implements Tango REST API and Tango JINR REST API; WebSocketDS is a lightweight Tango WebSocket service, developed in C++ with WebSocket++, Boost and OpenSSL libraries. It implements Tango attributes reading and command executing through WebSockets. The report also gives examples of web client applications for NICA control system, using these services.
	Poster TUPHA167 [6.383 MB]
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THCPL05	TANGO Heads for Industry	ion, TANGO, controls, software	1195
	A. Götz, R. Bourtembourg, J.M. Chaize, T.M. Coutinho, V. Michel, J.L. Pons, P.V. Verdier ESRF, Grenoble, France S. Gara NEXEYA Systems, La Couronne, France P.P. Goryl 3controls, Kraków, Poland I.A. Khokhriakov HZG, Geesthacht, Germany G.R. Mant STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom A. Stanik Prevac, Rogow, Poland S. Viénot JYSE, Grenoble, France
	The TANGO Controls Framework* continues to mature and be adopted by new sites and applications. This paper will describe how TANGO has moved closer to industry with the creation of startups and addressing industrial use cases. It will describe what progress has been made since the last ICALEPCS in 2015 to ensure the sustainability of TANGO for scientific and industrial users. It will present TANGO web based technologies and the deployment of TANGO in the cloud. Furthermore it will describe how the community has re-organised itself to fund and improve code sharing, documentation, code quality assurance and maintenance. * http://tango-controls.org
	Talk as video stream: https://youtu.be/O-_JLDN4BSg
	Slides THCPL05 [9.769 MB]
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THMPL04	Telescope Control System of the ASTRI SST-2M prototype for the Cherenkov Telescope Array	ion, controls, software, monitoring	1266
	E. Antolini, G. Tosti Università degli di Perugia, Perugia, Italy L.A. Antonelli, S. Gallozzi, S. Lombardi, F. Lucarelli, M. Mastropietro, V. Testa INAF O.A. Roma, Roma, Italy P. Bruno, G. Leto, S. Scuderi INAF-OACT, Catania, Italy A. Busatta, C. Manfrin, G. Marchiori, E. Marcuzzi EIE Group s.r.l., Venezia, Italy R. Canestrari, G. Pareschi, J. Schwarz, S. Scuderi, G. Sironi, G. Tosti INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Merate, Italy E. Cascone INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Napoli, Italy V. Conforti, F. Gianotti, M. Trifoglio INAF, Bologna, Italy D. Di Michele, C. Grigolon, P. Guarise Beckhoff Automation Srl, Limbiate, Italy E. Giro INAF- Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Padova, Italy N. La Palombara INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Milano, Milano, Italy F. Russo INAF O.A. Torino, Pino Torinese, Italy
	The ASTRI SST-2M telescope is a prototype proposed for the Small Size class of Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). The ASTRI prototype adopts innovative solutions for the optical system, which poses stringent requirements in the design and development of the Telescope Control System (TCS), whose task is the coordination of the telescope devices. All the subsystems are managed independently by the related controllers, which are developed through a PC-Based technology and making use of the TwinCAT3 environment for the software PLC. The TCS is built upon the ALMA Common Software framework and uses the OPC-UA protocol for the interface with the telescope components, providing a simplified full access to the capabilities offered by the telescope subsystems for normal operation, testing, maintenance and calibration activities. In this contribution we highlight how the ASTRI approach for the design, development and implementation of the TCS has made the prototype a stand-alone intelligent and active machine, providing also an easy way for the integration in an array configuration such as the future ASTRI mini-array proposed to be installed at the southern site of the CTA.
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	Poster THMPL04 [1.773 MB]
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THPHA014	Evolution in the Development of the Italian Single-dish COntrol System (DISCOS)	ion, controls, software, hardware	1366
	A. Orlati, M. Bartolini, S. Righini INAF - IRA, Bologna, Italy M. Buttu, A. Fara, C. Migoni, S. Poppi INAF - OAC, Selargius (CA), Italy
	DISCOS [] is a control system developed by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) and currently in use at three radio telescope facilities of Medicina, Noto and the Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT) []. DISCOS development is based on the adoption of the ALMA Common Software (ACS) framework. During the last two years, besides assisting the astronomical commissioning of the newly-built SRT and enabling its early science program, the control system has undergone some major upgrades. The long-awaited transition to a recent ACS version was performed, migrating the whole code base to 64 bit operative system and compilers, addressing the obsolescence problem that was causing a major technical debt to the project. This opportunity allowed us to perform some refactoring, in order to implement improved logging and resource management. During this transition the code management platform was migrated to a git-based versioning system and the continuous integration platform was modified to accommodate these changes. Further upgrades included the system completion at Noto and the expansion to handle new digital backends. Orlati A. et al. Design Strategies in the Development of the Italian Single-dish Control System, ICALEPCS 2015 **Bolli P. et al. SRT: General Description, Technical Commissioning and First Light
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THPHA038	Upgrade of the CERN Rade Framework Architecture Using RabbitMQ and MQTT	ion, interface, LabView, controls	1446
	O.Ø. Andreassen, F. Marazita, M.K. Miskowiec CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	AMQP was originally developed for the finance community as an open way to communicate the vastly increasing over-the-counter trace, risk and clearing market data, without the need for a proprietary protocol and expensive license. In this paper, we explore the possibility to use AMQP with MQTT extensions in a cross platform, cross language environment, where the communication bus becomes an extendible framework in which simple/thin software clients can leverage the many expert libraries at CERN.
	Poster THPHA038 [1.797 MB]
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THPHA099	New Concepts for Access Devices in the SPS Personnel Protection System	ion, controls, operation, electronics	1608
	T. Ladzinski, F. Havart, P. Ninin, E. Sanchez-Corral Mena, F. Valentini, D. Vaxelaire CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The accelerator facilities at CERN span large areas and the personnel protection systems consist of hundreds of interlocked doors delimiting the accelerator zones. Entrance into the interlocked zones from the outside is allowed only via a small number of access points. These are no longer made of doors which have left their place to turnstiles and then to mantraps or Personnel Access Devices (PAD). Originally meant for high security zones, the commercially available PADs have a number of CERN-specific additions. This paper presents in detail the purpose and characteristics of each piece of equipment constituting the access devices and its integration within the personnel protection system. Key concepts related to personnel safety (e.g. interlocked safety tokens, patrols) and to access control (e.g. access authorisation, biometric identity verification, equipment checks) are introduced and solutions discussed. Three generations of access devices are presented, starting from the LHC model put in service in 2008, continuing with the PS devices operational since 2014 and finally introducing the latest model under development for the refurbishment of the SPS Personnel Protection System.
	Poster THPHA099 [0.830 MB]
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THPHA164	Automated Software Testing for Control and Monitoring a Radio Telescope	ion, software, framework, hardware	1806
	B. Xaia, T. Gatsi, O.J. Mokone SKA South Africa, National Research Foundation of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
	Funding: SKA (SA) - National Research Foundation (NRF) The 64-dish MeerKAT radio telescope, under construction in South Africa, will become the largest and most sensitive radio telescope in the Southern Hemisphere until integrated with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Software testing is an integral part of software development that is aimed at evaluating software quality; verifying and validating that the given requirements are met. This poster will present the approach, techniques and tools used to automate the testing of the software that controls and monitors the telescope. Jenkins continuous integration system is the server used to run the automated tests together with Git and Docker as the supporting tools to the process. In addition to the aforementioned tools we also use an Automated Qualification Framework (AQF) which is an in-house developed software that automates as much as possible of the functional testing of the Control and Monitoring (CAM) software. The AQF is invoked from Jenkins by launching a fully simulated CAM system and executing the Integrated CAM Tests against this simulated system as CAM Regression Testing. The advantages and limitations of the automated testing will be elaborated in the paper in detail.
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FRAPL02	Commisioning and Calibration of the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope	ion, controls, MMI, software	1989
	C.J. Mayer, B.D. Goodrich, W. McBride Advanced Technology Solar Telescope, National Solar Observatory, Tucson, USA
	Funding: DKIST is a facility of the National Solar Observatory funded by the National Science Foundation under a cooperative agreement with the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) is currently under construction on the summit of Haleakala on the island of Maui. When completed in late 2019 it will be the largest optical solar telescope in the world with a 4m clear aperture and a suite of state of the art instruments that will enable our Sun to be studied in unprecedented detail. In this paper we describe the current state of testing, commissioning and calibration of the telescope and how that is supported by the DKIST control system.
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TUCPA05

Laser Damage Image Pre-processing Based on Total Variation

ion, optics, laser, electron

272

J. Luo, Z. Ni, X. Xie, X. Zhou
CAEP, Sichuan, People's Republic of China

The inspection and tracking of laser-induced damages of optics play a significant role in high-power laser systems. Laser-induced defects or flaws on the surfaces of optics are presented in images acquired by specific charge coupled devices (CCDs), hence the identification of defects from laser damage images is essential. Despite a great effort we have made to improve the imaging results, the defect identification is a challenging task. The proposed research focuses on the pre-processing of laser damage images, which assists identifying optic defects. We formulate the image pre-processing as a total variation (TV) based image reconstruction problem, and further develop an alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm to solve it. The use of TV regularization makes the pre-processed image sharper by preserving the edges or boundaries more accurately. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of this method.

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TUPHA004

Procedures of Software Integration Test and Release for ASTRI SST-2m Prototype Proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

ion, software, controls, hardware

370

V. Conforti, A. Bulgarelli, V. Fioretti, F. Gianotti, G. Malaguti, M. Trifoglio
INAF, Bologna, Italy
E. Antolini
Università degli di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
L.A. Antonelli, S. Gallozzi, S. Lombardi, F. Lucarelli, M. Mastropietro, V. Testa
INAF O.A. Roma, Roma, Italy
M. Bartolini, A. Orlati
INAF - IRA, Bologna, Italy
P. Bruno, A. Costa, A. Grillo, F. Vitello
INAF-OACT, Catania, Italy
R. Canestrari, J. Schwarz, S. Scuderi, S. Vercellone
INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Merate, Italy
O. Catalano, P. Sangiorgi
INAF IASF Palermo, Palermo, Italy
F. Russo
INAF O.A. Torino, Pino Torinese, Italy
G. Tosti
INFN-PG, Perugia, Italy

Funding: This work is supported by the Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research (MIUR) with funds specifically assigned to the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF)
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project is an international initiative to build a next generation ground-based observatory for very high energy gamma-rays. Three classes of telescopes with different mirror size will be located in the northern and southern hemispheres. The ASTRI mini-array of CTA preproduction is one of the small sized telescopes mini-arrays proposed to be installed at the CTA southern site. The ASTRI mini-array will consist of nine units based on the end-to-end ASTRI SST-2M prototype already installed on Mt. Etna (Italy). The mini-array software system (MASS) supports the end to end ASTRI SST-2M prototype and miniarray operations. The ASTRI software integration team defined the procedures to perform effectively the integration test and release activities. The developer has to properly use the repository tree and branches according to the development status. We require that the software includes also specific sections for automated tests and that the software is well tested (in simulated and real system) before any release. Here we present the method adopted to release the first MASS version to support the ASTRI SST-2M prototype test and operation activities.
* conforti@iasfbo.inaf.it

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TUPHA080

New Data Acquisition System Implemented Based on MTCA.4 Form Factor for KSTAR Diagnostic System

ion, diagnostics, controls, real-time

593

T.G. Lee, J.S. Hong, G.I. Kwon, W.R. Lee, T.H. Tak
NFRI, Daejon, Republic of Korea

In Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR), various diagnostics systems were operated from the first plasma in 2008. Many diagnostic devices have been installed for measuring the various plasma properties such as plasma current, magnetic current, electron density, electron temperature, impurity, and so on. The DAQ system for measuring the various plasma properties were developed with various form factor digitizer such as VME, CPCI, PXI, VXI. and PCIe. These complicated form factors installed on KSTAR have difficulties with hardware management, software management and performance upgrades. In order to control real-time systems using several diagnostic signals, the real-time control system is required to share the data without delay between the diagnostic measurement system and the real-time control system without branch one signal. Therefore, we developed the Multifunction Control Unit (KMCU) as the standard control system MTCA.4 form-factor and implemented the various diagnostic DAQ system using KMCU V2, that is KMCU-Z30. This paper will present the implementation of KSTAR diagnostic DAQ systems configured with KMCU based on MTCA.4 and their operating results.

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TUPHA130

Design and Development of the Control System for a Compact Carbon-14 AMS Facility

ion, controls, interface, network

722

K.N. Li, Y.W. Bao, M. He, Y.M. Hu, S. Jiang, S.Y. Su, Q.B. You, J.M. Zhou
CIAE, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Funding: Beijing Science and Technology Committee
A compact AMS facility which is special used for further analyzing atmospheric pollution especially in north China via carbon-14 measurement was developed at CIAE (China Institute of Atomic Energy). This machine is a single acceleration stage AMS, running with the highest accelerate voltage of 200kV. The control system is based on distributed Ethernet control system, using standard TCP/IP protocol as main communication protocol. In order to connect to the main control network freely, device-level data-link layers were developed also. A LabVIEW client, developing virtual machine applied environment, provides friendly graphical user interface for the devices management and measurement data processing.

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TUPHA167

Tango Web Access Modules and Web Clients for NICA Control System

ion, TANGO, controls, operation

806

G.S. Sedykh, V.G. Elkin
JINR/VBLHEP, Dubna, Moscow region, Russia
E.V. Gorbachev
JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia

NICA (Nuclotron-based Ion Collider Facility) is a new accelerator complex designed at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia) to study properties of dense baryonic matter. The report describes Tango-modules designed at JINR to provide web-access to Tango-based control system. RestDS is a lightweight Tango REST service, developed in C++ with Boost and OpenSSL libraries. It implements Tango REST API and Tango JINR REST API; WebSocketDS is a lightweight Tango WebSocket service, developed in C++ with WebSocket++, Boost and OpenSSL libraries. It implements Tango attributes reading and command executing through WebSockets. The report also gives examples of web client applications for NICA control system, using these services.

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THCPL05

TANGO Heads for Industry

ion, TANGO, controls, software

1195

A. Götz, R. Bourtembourg, J.M. Chaize, T.M. Coutinho, V. Michel, J.L. Pons, P.V. Verdier
ESRF, Grenoble, France
S. Gara
NEXEYA Systems, La Couronne, France
P.P. Goryl
3controls, Kraków, Poland
I.A. Khokhriakov
HZG, Geesthacht, Germany
G.R. Mant
STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
A. Stanik
Prevac, Rogow, Poland
S. Viénot
JYSE, Grenoble, France

The TANGO Controls Framework* continues to mature and be adopted by new sites and applications. This paper will describe how TANGO has moved closer to industry with the creation of startups and addressing industrial use cases. It will describe what progress has been made since the last ICALEPCS in 2015 to ensure the sustainability of TANGO for scientific and industrial users. It will present TANGO web based technologies and the deployment of TANGO in the cloud. Furthermore it will describe how the community has re-organised itself to fund and improve code sharing, documentation, code quality assurance and maintenance.
* http://tango-controls.org

Talk as video stream: https://youtu.be/O-_JLDN4BSg

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THMPL04

Telescope Control System of the ASTRI SST-2M prototype for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

ion, controls, software, monitoring

1266

E. Antolini, G. Tosti
Università degli di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
L.A. Antonelli, S. Gallozzi, S. Lombardi, F. Lucarelli, M. Mastropietro, V. Testa
INAF O.A. Roma, Roma, Italy
P. Bruno, G. Leto, S. Scuderi
INAF-OACT, Catania, Italy
A. Busatta, C. Manfrin, G. Marchiori, E. Marcuzzi
EIE Group s.r.l., Venezia, Italy
R. Canestrari, G. Pareschi, J. Schwarz, S. Scuderi, G. Sironi, G. Tosti
INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Merate, Italy
E. Cascone
INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Napoli, Italy
V. Conforti, F. Gianotti, M. Trifoglio
INAF, Bologna, Italy
D. Di Michele, C. Grigolon, P. Guarise
Beckhoff Automation Srl, Limbiate, Italy
E. Giro
INAF- Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Padova, Italy
N. La Palombara
INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Milano, Milano, Italy
F. Russo
INAF O.A. Torino, Pino Torinese, Italy

The ASTRI SST-2M telescope is a prototype proposed for the Small Size class of Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). The ASTRI prototype adopts innovative solutions for the optical system, which poses stringent requirements in the design and development of the Telescope Control System (TCS), whose task is the coordination of the telescope devices. All the subsystems are managed independently by the related controllers, which are developed through a PC-Based technology and making use of the TwinCAT3 environment for the software PLC. The TCS is built upon the ALMA Common Software framework and uses the OPC-UA protocol for the interface with the telescope components, providing a simplified full access to the capabilities offered by the telescope subsystems for normal operation, testing, maintenance and calibration activities. In this contribution we highlight how the ASTRI approach for the design, development and implementation of the TCS has made the prototype a stand-alone intelligent and active machine, providing also an easy way for the integration in an array configuration such as the future ASTRI mini-array proposed to be installed at the southern site of the CTA.

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Poster THMPL04 [1.773 MB]

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THPHA014

Evolution in the Development of the Italian Single-dish COntrol System (DISCOS)

ion, controls, software, hardware

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A. Orlati, M. Bartolini, S. Righini
INAF - IRA, Bologna, Italy
M. Buttu, A. Fara, C. Migoni, S. Poppi
INAF - OAC, Selargius (CA), Italy

DISCOS [*] is a control system developed by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) and currently in use at three radio telescope facilities of Medicina, Noto and the Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT) [**]. DISCOS development is based on the adoption of the ALMA Common Software (ACS) framework. During the last two years, besides assisting the astronomical commissioning of the newly-built SRT and enabling its early science program, the control system has undergone some major upgrades. The long-awaited transition to a recent ACS version was performed, migrating the whole code base to 64 bit operative system and compilers, addressing the obsolescence problem that was causing a major technical debt to the project. This opportunity allowed us to perform some refactoring, in order to implement improved logging and resource management. During this transition the code management platform was migrated to a git-based versioning system and the continuous integration platform was modified to accommodate these changes. Further upgrades included the system completion at Noto and the expansion to handle new digital backends.
*Orlati A. et al. Design Strategies in the Development of the Italian Single-dish Control System, ICALEPCS 2015
**Bolli P. et al. SRT: General Description, Technical Commissioning and First Light

Poster THPHA014 [4.559 MB]

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THPHA038

Upgrade of the CERN Rade Framework Architecture Using RabbitMQ and MQTT

ion, interface, LabView, controls

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O.Ø. Andreassen, F. Marazita, M.K. Miskowiec
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

AMQP was originally developed for the finance community as an open way to communicate the vastly increasing over-the-counter trace, risk and clearing market data, without the need for a proprietary protocol and expensive license. In this paper, we explore the possibility to use AMQP with MQTT extensions in a cross platform, cross language environment, where the communication bus becomes an extendible framework in which simple/thin software clients can leverage the many expert libraries at CERN.

Poster THPHA038 [1.797 MB]

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THPHA099

New Concepts for Access Devices in the SPS Personnel Protection System

ion, controls, operation, electronics

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T. Ladzinski, F. Havart, P. Ninin, E. Sanchez-Corral Mena, F. Valentini, D. Vaxelaire
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The accelerator facilities at CERN span large areas and the personnel protection systems consist of hundreds of interlocked doors delimiting the accelerator zones. Entrance into the interlocked zones from the outside is allowed only via a small number of access points. These are no longer made of doors which have left their place to turnstiles and then to mantraps or Personnel Access Devices (PAD). Originally meant for high security zones, the commercially available PADs have a number of CERN-specific additions. This paper presents in detail the purpose and characteristics of each piece of equipment constituting the access devices and its integration within the personnel protection system. Key concepts related to personnel safety (e.g. interlocked safety tokens, patrols) and to access control (e.g. access authorisation, biometric identity verification, equipment checks) are introduced and solutions discussed. Three generations of access devices are presented, starting from the LHC model put in service in 2008, continuing with the PS devices operational since 2014 and finally introducing the latest model under development for the refurbishment of the SPS Personnel Protection System.

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THPHA164

Automated Software Testing for Control and Monitoring a Radio Telescope

ion, software, framework, hardware

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B. Xaia, T. Gatsi, O.J. Mokone
SKA South Africa, National Research Foundation of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa

Funding: SKA (SA) - National Research Foundation (NRF)
The 64-dish MeerKAT radio telescope, under construction in South Africa, will become the largest and most sensitive radio telescope in the Southern Hemisphere until integrated with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Software testing is an integral part of software development that is aimed at evaluating software quality; verifying and validating that the given requirements are met. This poster will present the approach, techniques and tools used to automate the testing of the software that controls and monitors the telescope. Jenkins continuous integration system is the server used to run the automated tests together with Git and Docker as the supporting tools to the process. In addition to the aforementioned tools we also use an Automated Qualification Framework (AQF) which is an in-house developed software that automates as much as possible of the functional testing of the Control and Monitoring (CAM) software. The AQF is invoked from Jenkins by launching a fully simulated CAM system and executing the Integrated CAM Tests against this simulated system as CAM Regression Testing. The advantages and limitations of the automated testing will be elaborated in the paper in detail.

Poster THPHA164 [0.675 MB]

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FRAPL02

Commisioning and Calibration of the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope

ion, controls, MMI, software

1989

C.J. Mayer, B.D. Goodrich, W. McBride
Advanced Technology Solar Telescope, National Solar Observatory, Tucson, USA

Funding: DKIST is a facility of the National Solar Observatory funded by the National Science Foundation under a cooperative agreement with the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.
The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) is currently under construction on the summit of Haleakala on the island of Maui. When completed in late 2019 it will be the largest optical solar telescope in the world with a 4m clear aperture and a suite of state of the art instruments that will enable our Sun to be studied in unprecedented detail. In this paper we describe the current state of testing, commissioning and calibration of the telescope and how that is supported by the DKIST control system.

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