Automated control and real-time data processing of wire scanner/halo scraper measurements

Author

Day, L.A. ; Barr, D. ; Gilpatrick, J.D. ; Kerstiens, D.M. ; Stettler, M. ; Kamperschroer, J.H. ; Gruchalla, M.E. ; O ´Hara, J.F.

Author_Institution

Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1309

Abstract

The Low-Energy Demonstration Accelerator (LEDA), assembled and operating at Los Alamos National Laboratory, provides the platform for obtaining measurements of high-power proton beam-halo formation. Control system software and hardware have been integrated and customized to enable the production of real-time beam-halo profiles. The Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) hosted on a VXI platform, Interactive Data Language (IDL) programs hosted on UNIX platforms, and LabVIEW (LV) Virtual Instruments hosted on a PC platform have been integrated and customized to provide real-time, synchronous motor control, data acquisition, and data analysis of data acquired through specialized DSP instrumentation. These modules communicate through EPICS Channel Access (CA) communication protocol extensions to control and manage execution flow ensuring synchronous data acquisition and real-time processing of measurement data. This paper describes the software integration and management scheme implemented to produce these real-time beam profiles

Keywords

computerised control; data acquisition; data analysis; high energy physics instrumentation computing; integrated software; linear accelerators; particle beam diagnostics; proton accelerators; software management; EPICS; EPICS Channel Access communication protocol; Interactive Data Language; LEDA; LabVIEW Virtual Instruments; Low-Energy Demonstration Accelerator; automated control; data acquisition; data analysis; halo scraper; proton beam-halo; real-time beam-halo profiles; real-time data processing; software integration; software management; synchronous motor control; wire scanner; Assembly; Automatic control; Communication system control; Control systems; Data acquisition; Data processing; Instruments; Proton accelerators; Real time systems; Wire;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2001. PAC 2001. Proceedings of the 2001

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7191-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2001.986663

Filename

986663