Instrumentation and Controls Autumn '21 Meeting

Session

Morning Session

28 May 2021, 09:10

Zoom

5. Advanced Instrumentation Technology Centre at ANU

David Brodrick (ANU)

28/05/2021, 09:10

Upcoming and Current Developments

Full presentation (15 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)

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...

12. MEX Crystal Spectrometer

Danny Wong

28/05/2021, 09:30

Upcoming and Current Developments

Full presentation (15 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)

The Crystal Spectrometer is one of the first equipment arrived onsite for ANSTO's BR-IGHT program.
- Where it came from?
- What changes were made?
- How it is currently implemented?
- Engineering GUI
- video of Spectrometer in Action
- What's next?

10. Script based GUI builder for instrument control and data treatment

Norman Xiong (ANSTO)

28/05/2021, 09:50

User Interfaces

Full presentation (15 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)

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...

8. Computer Control Operation and Future Upgrade Plan in STAR Accelerator Facility at ANSTO

Dr JIAN WANG (CAS ANSTO)

28/05/2021, 10:10

Upcoming and Current Developments

Full presentation (15 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)

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...

4. Fast ORM Measurement for Australian Synchrotron

Simin Chen (ANSTO)

28/05/2021, 11:00

Upcoming and Current Developments

Full presentation (15 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)

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...

9. Developing a High Voltage Generator controller for the 2MV Tandetron accelerator

Mr Nikolas Paneras, Mr Yasser Yasser Mafi Nejad

28/05/2021, 11:20

Upcoming and Current Developments

Full presentation (15 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)

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...

13. Interfacing to Xilinx Alveo Accelerator Cards using caproto and pyOpenCL

Euan Troup (CSIRO Astronomy and Space)

28/05/2021, 11:40

Upcoming and Current Developments

Full presentation (15 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)

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...

15. Float64 Motor Record

Mr Nader Afshar (Australian Synchrotron - ANSTO)

28/05/2021, 12:00

Upcoming and Current Developments

Full presentation (15 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)

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...