| Title |
BART: Development of a Sample Exchange System for MX Beamlines |
| Authors |
- J.D. O'Hea, M.H. Burt, S. Fisher, K.M.J. Jones, K.E. McAuley, G. Preece, M.A. Williams
DLS, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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| Abstract |
Automation plays a key role in the macromolecular crystallography (MX) beamlines at Diamond Light Source (DLS). This is particularly evident with sample exchange; where fast, reliable, and accurate handling is required to ensure high quality and high throughput data collection. This paper looks at the design, build, and integration of an in-house robot control system. The system was designed to improve reliability and exchange times, provide high sample storage capacity, and accommodate easy upgrade paths, whilst gaining and maintaining in-house robotics knowledge. The paper also highlights how peripheral components were brought under the control of a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) based integration unit, including a vision system.
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| Paper |
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| Conference |
ICALEPCS2017, Barcelona, Spain |
| Series |
International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Control Systems (16th) |
| Proceedings |
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| Session |
Poster Session |
| Date |
12-Oct-17 16:45–19:00 |
| Main Classification |
Experiment Control |
| Keywords |
ion, controls, EPICS, PLC, software |
| Publisher |
JACoW, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Editors |
Volker RW Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany); Isidre Costa (ALBA-CELLS, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain); David Fernández (ALBA-CELLS, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain); Ãscar Matilla (ALBA-CELLS, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain) |
| ISBN |
978-3-95450-193-9 |
| Published |
January 2018 |
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