Title :
Status of the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System at NSTX
Author :
Sichta, P. ; Dong, J.
Author_Institution :
Plasma Phys. Lab., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA
Abstract :
The NSTX achieved first plasma in 1999. The Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) is used to provide data-integration services for monitoring and control of all NSTX engineering subsystems. EPICS is a set of software initially developed at US DOE laboratories. It Is currently used and maintained through a global collaboration of hundreds of scientists and engineers. This paper will relate some of our experiences using and supporting the EPICS software. Topics include reliability and maintainability, lessons learned, recently added engineering subsystems, new EPICS software tools, and a review of our first EPICS software upgrade. Steps to modernize the technical Infrastructure of EPICS to ensure effective support for NSTX will also be described.
Keywords :
Tokamak devices; control engineering computing; nuclear engineering computing; software maintenance; software reliability; software tools; EPICS; Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System; NSTX; software maintainability; software reliability; software tools; software upgrade; Control systems; Data engineering; Industrial control; Maintenance engineering; Monitoring; Physics; Plasma applications; Reliability engineering; Software tools; US Department of Energy;
Conference_Titel :
Fusion Engineering, 2002. 19th Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7073-2
DOI :
10.1109/FUSION.2002.1027686
