| Title |
Software Architecture for Beamline Automation - VMXi Use-Case |
| Authors |
- C.J. Sharpe
DLS, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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| Abstract |
Versatile Macromolecular in-situ (VMXi) is the first beamline at Diamond Light Source (DLS) to be entirely automated with no direct user interaction to set up and control experiments. This marks a radical departure from other beamlines at the facility and it has presented a significant design challenge to General Data Acquisition (GDA), the in-house software that manages beamline data collection. GDA has become a reactive controller for continual, uninterrupted processing of all user experiments. A major achievement has been to demonstrate that it is possible to successfully deliver a suitable architectural implementation for automation developed within a standard integrate development environment (IDE). There is no need for specialised software or a domain specific language for automation. The objective is to: review VMXi project with the emphasis on hardware configuration and experiment processing; describe the software and control architecture for automation; and provide a general set of guidelines for developing software for automation at a scientific facility.
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| Paper |
download WEBPL04.PDF [0.874 MB / 6 pages] |
| Slides |
download WEBPL04_TALK.PDF [11.481 MB] |
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| Conference |
ICALEPCS2017, Barcelona, Spain |
| Series |
International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Control Systems (16th) |
| Proceedings |
Link to full ICALEPCS2017 Proccedings |
| Session |
Experiment Control 1 |
| Date |
11-Oct-17 10:45–12:30 |
| Main Classification |
Experiment Control |
| Keywords |
ion, controls, hardware, software, experiment |
| 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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