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WEC1 The Do’s and Don’ts in Process Controls - Lessons Learned Over 35 Years controls, PLC, software, cryogenics 1
 
  • M.R. Clausen, T. Boeckmann, J. Hatje, O. Korth, M. Möller, J. Penning, H.R. Rickens, B. Schoeneburg
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
 
  Designing, implementing and maintaining process control systems for cryogenic plants requires different viewpoints compared with those in machine controls. 24/7 operations for more than a year is a basic requirement. Hardware and software must be designed to fulfill this requirement. Many projects are carried out with industrial partners. Companies specify the process control logic which gets implemented by the local DESY team. Responsibilities, time tables and milestones must be clearly defined in such a case. Several cryogenic installations have been equipped with state of the art process control systems for cryogenic controls. Where the last one being the European XFEL. In the course of time commercial and open source systems were implemented and maintained. Control loops were basically always implemented in front end controllers running the real-time operating system VxWorks and EPICS as the control system toolkit. The approach to use PLCs will be discussed as an alternative approach. Large installations like the European XFEL require good project planning. Our success story will finalize our look back and initiate our look forward.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-PCaPAC2018-WEC1  
About • paper received ※ 12 October 2018       paper accepted ※ 15 October 2018       issue date ※ 21 January 2019  
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WEC5 !CHAOS General Status Report controls, framework, luminosity, interface 17
 
  • A. Stecchi, C. Bisegni, P. Ciuffetti, A. D’Uffizi, A. De Santis, G. Di Pirro, F. Galletti, R. Gargana, A. Michelotti, M. Pistoni, D. Spigone
    INFN/LNF, Frascati, Italy
  • L. Catani
    INFN - Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
 
  !CHAOS* (Control system based on Highly Abstracted and Open Structure) is now mature and is being employed in real operational contexts. A dedicated infrastructure, recently installed at the LNF Computer Centre, houses the framework and provides control services to different LNF installations. The !CHAOS native capability of fast storage, based on the use of a non-relational database, has been finalized and tested with applications demanding high bandwidth. Thanks to its scalable design, the fast storage allows to accommodate multiple sources with sub-millisecond timing. The EU (Execution Unit) node has also been delivered and turned out to be a "Swiss Army knife" for processing both live and stored data, inserting feedbacks and in general for correlating data acquired by the CU (Control Units) nodes. A key feature of the EU is a plugin mechanism that allows to easily integrate different programming and scripting languages such as LUA, C++, Python, also exploiting the ROOT framework, the well-known scientific tool from CERN. A comprehensive description of the !CHAOS evolution, of its performances and of its use, both in scientific and industrial contexts, is presented.
* L. Catani et al, Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 15, 112804 (2012). Introducing a New Paradigm for Accelerators and Large Experimental Apparatus Control Systems.
 
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-PCaPAC2018-WEC5  
About • paper received ※ 10 October 2018       paper accepted ※ 17 October 2018       issue date ※ 21 January 2019  
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WEP02 BLISS - Experiments Control for ESRF Beamline controls, SRF, interface, TANGO 26
 
  • V. Michel, A. Beteva, T.M. Coutinho, M.C. Dominguez, M. Guijarro, C. Guilloud, A. Homs, J.M. Meyer, E. Papillon, M. Perez, S. Petitdemange
    ESRF, Grenoble, France
 
  BLISS is the new ESRF control system for running experiments, with full deployment aimed for the end of the EBS upgrade program in 2020. BLISS provides a global approach to run synchrotron experiments, thanks to hardware integration, Python sequences and an advanced scanning engine. As a Python package, BLISS can be easily embedded into any Python application and data management features enable online data analysis. In addition, BLISS ships with tools to enhance scientists user experience and can easily be integrated into TANGO based environments, with generic TANGO servers on top of BLISS controllers. BLISS configuration facility can be used as an alternative TANGO database. Delineating all aspects of the BLISS project from beamline device configuration up to the integrated user interface, this poster will present the technical choices that drove BLISS design and will describe the BLISS software architecture and technology stack in depth.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-PCaPAC2018-WEP02  
About • paper received ※ 04 October 2018       paper accepted ※ 30 January 2019       issue date ※ 21 January 2019  
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WEP10 Update on the Status of the FLUTE Control System controls, EPICS, network, electron 54
 
  • W. Mexner, E. Blomley, E. Bründermann, C.F. Fehlinger, S. Marsching, A.-S. Müller, R. Ruprecht, T. Schmelzer, M. Schuh, N.J. Smale
    KIT, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
  • I. Križnar
    Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • S. Marsching
    Aquenos GmbH, Baden-Baden, Germany
 
  The first phase of FLUTE, a new linac based test facility and THz source is currently being commissioned at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). It consist of an RF photo gun and a traveling wave linac accelerating electrons to beam energies of 40 to 50 MeV. The control system is based on a virtualized infrastructure running Ubuntu Linux and Linux KVM. As base for the SCADA system we use EPICS 3.15 with Control System Studio (CSS) for the GUI. The long term data storage is provided by a Cassandra NoSQL database. This contribution will present the architecture and the current status of the FLUTE control system.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-PCaPAC2018-WEP10  
About • paper received ※ 21 September 2018       paper accepted ※ 15 October 2018       issue date ※ 21 January 2019  
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WEP23 Control System Using EPICS Tools at TARLA LINAC controls, EPICS, interface, electron 85
 
  • O.F. Elcim
    Ankara University Institute of Accelerator Technologies, Golbasi, Turkey
 
  The first accelerator based research facility of Turkey-TARLA is under commissioning at Institute of Accelerator Technologies of Ankara University. It is designed to generate free electron laser and Bremsstrahlung radiation using up to 40 MeV continuous wave (CW) electron beam. The control system of TARLA is based on EPICS and are being tested offline. TARLA also has industrial control systems such as PLC based cryoplant and water cooling system. Its control system is under development, it benefits from the latest version of EPICS framework, i.e. V7. In other words, TARLA control system uses existing demonstrated tools of EPICSV3 as well as pvAccess which comes with EPICSv4 for transferring the large data through control network. Archive (CSS BEAUTY) and alarm (CSS BEAST) system have been set up to detect stability and prevent failures. Operator interfaces have been designed using CSS BOY. Currently, CCDs, PSS (Personel Safety System), MPS (Machine Protection System), Superconductive Cavities, RF Amplifiers, microTCA based LLRF system are being integrated into distributed control system. In this proceeding we summarize the current status and future plans of TARLA control system.  
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About • paper received ※ 10 October 2018       paper accepted ※ 15 October 2018       issue date ※ 21 January 2019  
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WEP33 Introduction of Ciads Control System controls, interface, operation, software 113
 
  • Y.X. Chen, H. Cao, H.T. Liu, J. Wang, Q.J. Wu, H. Zheng
    IMP/CAS, Lanzhou, People’s Republic of China
 
  CiADS is a science researching facility, which destination is about energy Providence. The control system of CiADS will have more than hundred types of device, and include more than thousand equipment and sensors. Based on the background of researching and energy project, the control system should overcome two challenges. First is that building a open architecture to face the flexibility of changed requirement. the second is that the flexibility should as less as possible influence the checking result of nuclear law and standard by authority. To meet the requirement, the control system will be divided into 3 levels.level 2 will provide the OPI, data analysis interface and simulation to all users. Level 1 provide implement of control and security logic. Meantime it will provide a engine and interface for collection and package of some reconstructed data. Level 0 will implement the local control and provide all data and information to other levels. The paper mainly introduce the architecture and some works to build the control system to make it to overcome the two challenges.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-PCaPAC2018-WEP33  
About • paper received ※ 08 October 2018       paper accepted ※ 15 October 2018       issue date ※ 21 January 2019  
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THCA5 Rethinking PLCs: Industrial Ethernet for Large-Scale Real-Time Distributed Control Applications PLC, controls, software, network 136
 
  • B. Plötzeneder, O. Janda, A. Kru’enko, J. Trdlicka
    ELI-BEAMS, Prague, Czech Republic
  • P. Bastl
    Institute of Physics of the ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic
 
  Funding: Extreme Light Infrastructure - Phase 2 (CZ.02.1.01/ 0.0/0.0/15008/0000162; Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports CZ / European Regional Development Fund)
Many research facilities rely on PLCs to automate large slow systems like vacuum or HVAC, where price, availability and reliability matter. The dominant architecture consists of local units of controllers/ modules (programmed in IEC61131-3 languages), which operate mostly autonomously from a SCADA layer. While some vendors provide low-level stacks to encourage growth of their ecosystems, PLC programming remains largely within a closed, proprietary world. In this paper, we introduce a different way of thinking about PLC hardware. Working with the open stacks intended for the design of new EtherCAT (Beckhoff) / Powerlink (B&R) modules, we built an abstract C+± API to control the existing ones. These industrial ethernet busses can be propagated using standard network hardware, so any RT-Linux system can now control any PLC module from anywhere in our facility using high-level languages (C++, LabVIEW). This way, PLC modules are seamlessly integrated into our distributed TANGO-based control system. PC-PLC interfaces are no longer needed; or in the case of traditionally implemented subsystems (machine safety), trivial.
 
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THP10 Collimator Motion Control System Upgrade for Medical Linear Accelerator Project at SLRI controls, software, FPGA, interface 183
 
  • R. Rujanakraikarn, P. Koonpong, S. Tesprasitte
    SLRI, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
 
  A prototype of the 6-MeV medical linear accelerator has been under development at Synchrotron Light Research Institute (SLRI). A set of secondary collimators is utilized with different size arrangement for beam shaping purpose. To produce the desired field size of the beam, the FPGA-based collimator motion control is designed in VHDL for simultaneous control of the collimators while the main PI control is implemented in the FPGA’s main processor. In this paper, hardware and software upgrades of the collimator motion control system are presented. A custom drive hardware for individual collimator is designed to implement with the existing FPGA controller board. Interface between the custom hardware parts and the FPGA’s programmable logic (PL) part is described. Communication between the motion control subsystem and the main LabVIEW control software on PC is modified to send and receive parameters wirelessly. Software modification of the FPGA’s main processor part and that of the LabVIEW GUI part is also reported.  
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About • paper received ※ 09 October 2018       paper accepted ※ 15 October 2018       issue date ※ 21 January 2019  
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