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David Brodrick (ANU)28/05/2021, 09:10
The Advanced Instrumentation Technology Centre (AITC), at ANU's Mount Stromlo Observatory, is a largely self-funding body, receiving contracts to develop optical and infrared instrumentation for some of the world's largest telescopes. We also host the Australian Space Test Facility and are a node of the Australian Astronomical Optics (AAO) consortium, operating and providing instrumentation...
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Danny Wong28/05/2021, 09:30
The Crystal Spectrometer is one of the first equipment arrived onsite for ANSTO's BR-IGHT program.
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- Where it came from?
- What changes were made?
- How it is currently implemented?
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Norman Xiong (ANSTO)28/05/2021, 09:50
A new feature has been added to the Gumtree software that allows users to create their own graphical user interfaces for controlling the neutron scattering instruments and treating data. Users without any GUI design experience can write simple Python scripts in this software environment, and the system will automatically generate the GUI accordingly. These scripts can be used for a mixed of...
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Dr JIAN WANG (CAS ANSTO)28/05/2021, 10:10
STAR is a 2MV tandetron accelerator that can perform both IBA and AMS analyses. It has three ion sources which include two duoplasmatron sources for hydrogen and helium, and a solid target sputter source used primarily for ionising carbon samples for AMS. The STAR accelerator currently has 3 beamlines, a multi-elemental surface analysis beamline (SIBA1), a high-resolution depth profiling and...
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Simin Chen (ANSTO)28/05/2021, 11:00
The fast ORM measurement system would be capable of reducing the measurement time of the storage ring’s corrector to position response matrix from 15 minutes down to around 1 minute.
The fast ORM measurement system is designed to generate sinusoidal excitation of the electron beam with or without FOFB correction data for fast response measurements. It is also equipped with a white noise...
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Mr Nikolas Paneras, Mr Yasser Yasser Mafi Nejad28/05/2021, 11:20
The aim of this project is to develop a controller to run the High Voltage Generator (HVG) for the 2MV Tandetron accelerator (Small Tandem Accelerator for Research (STAR)) at ANSTO.
The HVG is a solid state voltage multiplier used instead of a belt or pellet chain to generate the high potential for the accelerator terminal.
The current HVG controller PCB is damaged and is running in a...
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Euan Troup (CSIRO Astronomy and Space)28/05/2021, 11:40
Xilinx Alveo FPGA processing cards are used for DSP in beamformers for both CSIRO Parkes telescope CryoPAF and SKA-Low Telescope Correlator and Beamformer projects. The telescope control systems use EPICS and TANGO respectively. We have used pyOpenCL to create a control-system-independent layer to the beamformer firmware in the Alveo card then used caproto to create a Python IOC for interface...
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Mr Nader Afshar (Australian Synchrotron - ANSTO)28/05/2021, 12:00
In the Australian Synchrotron, we have standardised our motion controls based on Omron's PowerBrickLV(r), an advanced and versatile controller platform.
In order to utilise the advanced features of these controllers while maintaining the complexity that comes with the versatile and multi-purposed controller, DLS developers team led the community by setting up a software stack with modules in...
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Rosemary Waghorn (Australian Synchrotron)28/05/2021, 13:20
At the Australian Synchrotron we use a tool to allow entry of the operational area controls system structure which includes both the assembly and control hierarchies. This tool also includes auto generate of component (devices, controllers, hosts, IOCs) names, and API endpoints that can be used by other applications.
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Andraz Pozar (Australian Synchrotron)28/05/2021, 13:40
At the Australian Synchrotron we will use a combination of tools to capture the operational area controls system structure and from it generate engineering GUIs for that area at a click of a button.
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David Brodrick (ANU)28/05/2021, 14:00
Having been engaged in the development of radio telescopes, neutron facilities, and optical and infrared astronomy facilities, I can't help observe that many of the engineering building blocks are precisely the same. At the same time I see that, in practice, so few of the instrumentation engineers in Australia have the opportunity to share experiences with, or learn lessons from counterparts...
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Stephen Mudie (ANSTO)28/05/2021, 14:20
The SAXS/WAXS beamline at the Australian Synchrotron has been successfully using docker containers to run epics IOCs, including Galil motor controllers and GigE video cameras, since 2016. This system has proved extremely reliable, easy to maintain, and self documenting. The current system uses Docker Swarm for High Availability/Redundancy, and where possible reuses docker images for multiple...
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Matthew Rees (ANSTO)28/05/2021, 15:10
At the Centre for Accelerator Science (CAS) in ANSTO Lucas Heights, we have recently been evaluating solutions incorporating the use of Machine Vision as a tool for improving our systems and operations.
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This talk will provide a brief introduction to Machine Vision and its applications in general industry. We will discuss how Machine Vision has been used previously here at CAS and explore its... -
28/05/2021, 15:30Full presentation (15 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)
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Nikolai Lobanov (ANU), Peter Linardakis (Australian National University), Mr Daniel Tempra (ANU), Mr Stephen Battison (ANU)28/05/2021, 15:50
Under current University re-structure, we have limited resources allocated for upgrades and regular maintenance of the HIAF control system. We will structure this talk as an open discussion session dedicated to the current status and future development of HIAF control system and potentially engaging some collaborators from the delegation to form an advisory/workforce group to address those issues.
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28/05/2021, 16:10Open discussion topic
General open discussion
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