In this talk I will provide a brief overview of the exciting program (“BR–GHT”) for building new beamlines at ANSTO/Australian Synchrotron. I will then describe key aspects of Micro-Computed Tomography (MCT), one of the first two new beamlines. These will include the current status, aspects of the fundamental design, application areas being targeted, and future plans. The challenges and...
We are presenting and overview of the current status of our observatories, specifically looking at the monitoring and control software stack.
We will show how EPICS integrates into our systems and what the current state and future plans are.
Within the ITER project, 35 nations are collaborating to build the world's largest fusion facility in the South of France. Most contributions are in-kind - integration of more than 170 plant systems will be the main challenge when building the control system, which is using CODAC Core System, based on RedHat Enterprise Linux, EPICS and ITER specific tools.
An Eiger 16M detector has been integrated with a new goniometer on the micromolecular beamline at the Australian Synchrotron. The Eiger detector is configured and controlled through EPICS areaDetector. The goniometer is driven using a linear servo amplifier to provide the smoothest possible motion. An oscillation program that coordinates the rotation and shutter has been written to expose...
As data rates and the need for multi-modal measurements increase so do the requirements for automated collection and curation of the associated meta-data. At NSLS-II we begun to developed a suite of tools for high-level data acquisition and management to address this need. This talk is an overview of the architecture, components in the system: caproto, ophyd, bluesky, and databroker. ...
This will cover the details of the architecture and abstractions of ophyd and bluesky. Describing how they interact with the underlying control system and down-stream data processing and analysis environments. The interfaces between the layers is what enables these tools to work together in a coherent way while still be usable as stand-alone libraries. This design also allows the...
As the number of variables and states of devices grow, implementing, debugging and updating device support EPICS layer becomes a costly and error prone process. In the Australian Synchrotron's XFM beamline, EPICS mapping databases are used to interface hundreds of device variables to high level experiment control scripts.
Using a generic approach, we have developed some toolsets to directly...
Samples for PD are often in the form of capillaries filled with randomly arranged powders. For best results these capillaries have to be arranged so that they spin in the centre of the X-Ray beam. Because of the detector being arranged in a vertical strip, the capillary is mounted on a horizontal axis. The capillaries are mounted in a not-particularly well aligned state to begin with and a...
Experimental endstations often have large mechanical components that can have complex
motion control requirements.
The CHX (Coherent Hard X-ray Scattering) beamline at NSLS-II has a long SAXS
table with six axes of motion. The table consists of two separate sections, which can be
operated independently or in a combined mode. The table can rotate around the sample
position and translate in the...
The construction of at least eight new beamlines at the Australian Synchrotron over the next five years requires a new approach to developing beamline controllers. This talk presents a standard controls architecture proposed for future beamlines and the processes used to define this architecture.
What the EPICS Core Developers group has been up to recently, and our plans for future releases of EPICS Base.
First announced last October in Barcelona, a new website for the EPICS community has been created. The new site uses a content-management system (WordPress with various plugins) making it possible for many people to contribute. A review mechanism is in place so that content and style of the site can be kept consistent and under control. Existing content from the old site has been transferred...
I will present the current thinking of the EPICS council, the various collaboration areas we are exploring at the facility level - Membership, Web pages, training and resource direction. For futures.
An update on the latest developments in control system studio and phoebus.
EPICS 7 libcom for RTEMS 5
An introduction to the features and functionality of the epics core java libraries.
We will present our latest progress and status update of database applications for the APS-U.
The BRIGHT programme at the Australian Synchrotron will deliver at least eight new beamlines over the next 5 years. The control systems for all of these will be designed and developed in house. To make this possible to produce the number of controllers involved with limited resources a process has been developed to create individual beamline controllers from a master template. This talk...
We develop the archive system for beam injection information. It records the injected current to SuperKEKB accelerator main ring for every injected pulse. The system determined the injected current by comparing the bunch current monitor data between before and after injection. This service is realized with the precisely synchronized control by the Event Timing System.
This talk describes the deployment of EPICS IOCs on the SAXS/WAXS beamline at the Australian Synchrotron using containerisation via Docker. These IOCs cover a wide gamut of systems, most notably Motor Controls. The Docker deployment has been designed to enable easy service management, and the reuse of container images through injection of substitutions files and environment variables at...
To support the evolution towards standard control systems at the Australian Synchrotron controllers for all future beamlines will be developed in-house, even though the beamlines themselves will be constructed by external vendors. This talk presents a collaborative model that has been developed to integrate in-house control systems with vendor supplied equipment.
The Australian Synchrotron, is one of Australia’s most important pieces of research infrastructure. After more than 10 years of operation,
the beamlines at the Australian Synchrotron are well established
and the demand for automation of research tasks is
growing. Such tasks routinely involve the reduction of TBscale
data, online (realtime) analysis of the recorded data to
guide experiments,...
Summary of the development of the Control System Breakdown Structure at the Australian Synchrotron and how it will fit in with the other existing and planned systems. This will include reasons for current approach and lessons learnt.
