Automation tools in the software development of the TOTEM Detector Control System

Author

Atannasov, Ivan ; Rodríguez, Fernando Lucas ; Palazzi, Paolo ; Ravotti, Federico ; Stöckell, Sami ; Sziklai, Janos ; Tulimaki, Ville

Author_Institution

CERN, Genève, Switzerland

fYear

2010

fDate

Oct. 30 2010-Nov. 6 2010

Firstpage

327

Lastpage

332

Abstract

The TOTEM experiment at the CERN LHC consists of three different subdetectors. Its Detector Control System (DCS) is built with the industry-supplied PVSS system and extended with components developed at CERN through the Joint Controls Project (JCOP). In view of minimizing the development effort and improving reliability, the TOTEM DCS team has developed various technologies to automate the software development process to a large extent. A unified automatic development for all the three subde-tectors of the experiment saves time, produces more reliable software, and makes maintenance less expensive. The automation process described here may be reused in other industrial automation applications.

Keywords

high energy physics instrumentation computing; position sensitive particle detectors; CERN LHC; TOTEM detector control system; TOTEM experiment; automation process; industry-supplied PVSS system; joint control project; software development process; Automata; Automation; Control systems; Detectors; Hardware; Pins; Unified modeling language; CERN; Detector Control System; Finite State Machine; LHC; TOTEM; automation; heuristics; naming scheme;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Knoxville, TN

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9106-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5873774

Filename

5873774