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Paper	Title	Other Keywords	Page
WEPL006	Status of the future SPIRAL2 Control System	controls, power-supply, radio-frequency, heavy-ion	38
	D. T. Touchard, P. Gillette, C. H. Haquin, E. Lecorche, E. Lemaitre, L. Philippe GANIL, Caen J. F. Denis, F. Gougnaud, J.-F. Gournay, Y. Lussignol, P. Mattei CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette P. G. Graehling, J. H. Hosselet, C. Maazouzi IPHC, Strasbourg Cedex 2
	For the study of fundamental nuclear physics, the Spiral2 facility, a driver accelerator followed by a rare ion production process, will be coupled with the existing Ganil machine to provide light and heavy exotic nuclei at extremely high intensities. To ease the collaboration with several institutes on the control system design, EPICS has been chosen as the basic framework and a specific care has been taken concerning the software organization and management. While first operational interfaces for power supplies, faraday cups or beam slits are already operational, a triggered fast acquisition system for beam diagnostics, a radiofrequency control system, and an emittance measurement system are going to be achieved. First EDM supervision screens and high level tuning applications based on EPICS/XAL framework have been designed. The use of relational databases, on the one hand for the design of an environment to generate the Epics databases, on the other hand to manage, set and archive meaningful values of the new facility, is under investigation. From the beginning of last year, two sources followed by their first beam line section have been tested. Promising results are presented.
	Poster
WEPL008	Settings Management within the FAIR Control System based on the CERN LSA Framework	controls, synchrotron, extraction, target	41
	J. Fitzek, R. Mueller, D. Ondreka GSI, Darmstadt
	A control system for operating the future FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) accelerator complex is being developed at GSI. One of its core components is the settings management system. At CERN, settings management and data supply for large parts of the CERN accelerator complex is done using the LSA (LHC Software Architecture) framework. Several concepts of the LSA framework already fit the FAIR requirements: Generic structures for keeping accelerator data; modular design; separation between data model, business logic and applications; standardized interfaces for implementing the physical machine model. An LSA test installation was setup at GSI and first tests were performed controlling the GSI synchrotron SIS18 – already applying the new system to the existing facility. These successes notwithstanding, there are issues resulting from conceptual differences between CERN and FAIR operations. CERN and GSI have established a collaboration to make LSA fit for both institutes, thereby developing LSA into a generic framework for accelerator settings management. While focussing on the enhancements that are necessary for FAIR this paper presents also key concepts of LSA.
	Poster
WEPL009	Integration of Programmable Logic Controllers into the FAIR Control System using FESA	controls, radiation, photon, antiproton	44
	R. Haseitl, C. A. Andre, H. Bräuning, T. Hoffmann, R. Lonsing GSI, Darmstadt
	For the upcoming 'Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research' (FAIR) at GSI, the Front End Software Architecture (FESA) framework built by CERN has been chosen to serve as front-end level of the future FAIR control system. All future beam diagnostic devices will be controlled by FESA classes that are addressable by the new control system. The connectivity to the old control system is retained, since both control systems will be in operation contemporaneously for several years. Commercially available Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) have been installed as part of beam induced fluorescence (BIF) monitors to replace outdated network attached devices and to improve the reliability of the BIF systems. The new PLC devices are now controlled by FESA classes which are addressed from the existing C++ software via RDA calls. This contribution describes the system setup and the involved software components to access the PLC hardware.
	Poster
WEPL010	FESA Based Data Acquisition for Beam Diagnostics at GSI	controls, diagnostics, monitoring, synchrotron	47
	T. Hoffmann, H. Bräuning, R. Haseitl GSI, Darmstadt G. Jansa Cosylab, Ljubljana
	In view of the upcoming Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) at GSI with its increased complexity in beam control and diagnostics, the decision was taken to use the well-tested CERN-made Front-End Software Architecture (FESA) as the lowest level of the new control system. In the past years, the current stable FESA framework (Version 2.10) has been adapted and installed at GSI, the major part being the adaptation of the different machine timing models of GSI and CERN. With this stable environment at hand, all current and new data acquisition systems related to beam diagnostics will be implemented with FESA. To demonstrate the applicability of FESA for demanding data acquisition problems with high data rates and/or large amounts of data, two different projects such as the Tune Orbit and POSition measurement (TOPOS) and the Large Analogue Signal Scaling Information Environment (LASSIE) are presented. Experiences with implementing standard interfaces such as CAN, GigE and PLCs in FESA applications as well as a move towards low cost Intel-based VME controllers or industry PCs running a real time Linux are discussed.
	Poster
FRCOAA02	Database-driven Status Analysis in Beam Operation at the Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center	controls, ion-source, proton, target	205
	K. Höppner, R. Cee, M. Galonska, Th. Haberer, J. M. Mosthaf, A. Peters, S. Scheloske HIT, Heidelberg
	The HIT (Heidelberg Ion Therapy) center is the first dedicated European accelerator facility for cancer therapy using both carbon ions and protons, located at the university hospital in Heidelberg. It provides three therapy treatment rooms, two with fixed beam exit (one operational since 2009, one under commissioning), and the first gantry worldwide where the beam exit can be rotated by 360 degrees, currently under commissioning. HIT uses a PC-based proprietary software system for accelerator controls with an Oracle database for storing device parameters, beam history, error logging etc. Since medical treatment of humans requires a high level of quality assurance, a detailed analysis of beam quality and error logs is needed. We wrote a series of database applications using Python to perform these tasks automatically and create daily reports on beam statistics and parameters, machine status and errors occurred. Additionally, some graphical applications on top of the commercial control system help the scientists and operators in the beam commissioning of the new therapy treatment rooms and the gantry. We will present these applications and show how they are used at HIT.
	Slides