Title :
Automatic control of a laboratory system
Author :
Saadatmand, K. ; Grauer, W.B.
Author_Institution :
Grumman Corp. Res. Center, Bethpage, NY, USA
fDate :
10/1/1989 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A CAMAC- and PC-based control architecture has been devised to bring a laboratory experimental operation and diagnostics under computer control. The architecture employs three 80386 PCs. A Berkeley-type negative hydrogen volume ion source was brought under remote computer control (supervisory control) using this architecture, as a step in the development of an automatic beam optimization algorithm. A description is given of the hardware and software architecture and the software operation
Keywords :
CAMAC; computerised control; ion sources; laboratory apparatus and techniques; microcomputer applications; physics computing; 80386 PCs; CAMAC-based; H- volume source; PC-based; computer control; control architecture; diagnostics; hardware; laboratory experimental operation; laboratory system; software architecture; software operation; supervisory control; Automatic control; CAMAC; Computer architecture; Control systems; Costs; Data acquisition; Data processing; Hardware; Laboratories; Monitoring;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
