PCaPAC2022 - List of Authors (Dickerson, C.)

Paper	Title	Page
THP12	PLC Operated Plug and Play Vacuum Gauge Functionality at the Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerating System	69
	K.J. Bunnell, C. Dickerson, B.G. Nardi, D.J. Novak, D. Stanton ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
	The ATLAS (Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerating System) accelerator at Argonne National Laboratory is upgrading the vacuum control system from hardware-based, embedded controllers to modern flexible PLC- based controllers. This PLC system includes additional fail safes and a new remote operation feature. As part of this upgrade, a need for easy vacuum equipment replacement became apparent, specifically the vacuum gauges which are interfaced using serial communications. We developed an automated process to initialize and restore the configuration for replaced gauges. This simplifies the process and eliminates the need for a system expert for these tasks. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-PCaPAC2022-THP12
About •	Received ※ 30 September 2022 — Revised ※ 06 October 2022 — Accepted ※ 17 February 2023 — Issue date ※ 18 February 2023
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PLC Operated Plug and Play Vacuum Gauge Functionality at the Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerating System

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K.J. Bunnell, C. Dickerson, B.G. Nardi, D.J. Novak, D. Stanton
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA

The ATLAS (Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerating System) accelerator at Argonne National Laboratory is upgrading the vacuum control system from hardware-based, embedded controllers to modern flexible PLC- based controllers. This PLC system includes additional fail safes and a new remote operation feature. As part of this upgrade, a need for easy vacuum equipment replacement became apparent, specifically the vacuum gauges which are interfaced using serial communications. We developed an automated process to initialize and restore the configuration for replaced gauges. This simplifies the process and eliminates the need for a system expert for these tasks.
This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.

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reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-PCaPAC2022-THP12

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Received ※ 30 September 2022 — Revised ※ 06 October 2022 — Accepted ※ 17 February 2023 — Issue date ※ 18 February 2023

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reference for this paper using ※ BibTeX, ※ LaTeX, ※ Text/Word, ※ RIS, ※ EndNote (xml)