TY - CONF AU - Fargier, S.F. AU - Di Castro, M. AU - Donzé, M. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Götz, Andy ED - Venter, Johan ED - White, Karen ED - Robichon, Marie ED - Rowland, Vivienne TI - Operational Controls for Robots Integrated in Accelerator Complexes J2 - Proc. of ICALEPCS2023, Cape Town, South Africa, 09-13 October 2023 CY - Cape Town, South Africa T2 - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems T3 - 19 LA - english AB - The fourth industrial revolution, the current trend of automation and data interconnection in industrial technologies, is becoming an essential tool to boost maintenance and availability for space applications, warehouse logistics, particle accelerators and for harsh environments in general. The main pillars of Industry 4.0 are Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless Sensors, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning and Robotics. We are finding more and more way to interconnect existing processes using technology as a connector between machines, operations, equipment and people. Facility maintenance and operation is becoming more streamlined with earlier notifications, simplifying the control and monitor of the operations. Core to success and future growth in this field is the use of robots to perform various tasks, particularly those that are repetitive, unplanned or dangerous, which humans either prefer to avoid or are unable to carry out due to hazards, size constraints, or the extreme environments in which they take place. To be operated in a reliable way within particle accelerator complexes, robot controls and interfaces need to be included in the accelerator control frameworks, which is not obvious when movable systems are operating within a harsh environment. In this paper, the operational controls for robots at CERN is presented. Current robot controls at CERN will be detailed and the use case of the Train Inspection Monorail robot control will be presented. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 423 EP - 428 KW - controls KW - operation KW - framework KW - interface KW - network DA - 2024/02 PY - 2024 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-238-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUMBCMO25 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/tumbcmo25.pdf ER - TY - CONF AU - Pavis, S. AU - Barlow, R.A. AU - Boucly, C. AU - Carlier, E. AU - Chanavat, C. AU - Lolliot, C.A. AU - Magnin, N. AU - Van Trappen, P. AU - Voumard, N. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Götz, Andy ED - Venter, Johan ED - White, Karen ED - Robichon, Marie ED - Rowland, Vivienne TI - A Modular Approach for Accelerator Controls Components Deployment for High Power Pulsed Systems J2 - Proc. of ICALEPCS2023, Cape Town, South Africa, 09-13 October 2023 CY - Cape Town, South Africa T2 - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems T3 - 19 LA - english AB - As part of the LHC Injector Upgrade (LIU) project, the controls of the PSB and PS injection kickers at CERN have been upgraded during Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) from heterogeneous home-made electronic solutions to a modular and open architecture. Despite both kickers have significantly different functionalities, topologies and operational requirements, standardized hardware and software control blocks have been used for both systems. The new control architecture is built around a set of sub-systems, each one with a specific generic function required for the control of fast pulsed systems such as equipment and personnel safety, slow control and protection, high precision fast timing system, fast interlocking and protection, pulsed signal acquisition and analysis. Each sub-system comprises a combined integration of hardware components and associated low level software. This paper presents the functionality of the different sub-systems, illustrates how they have been integrated for the two different use-cases, discusses the lessons learned from these first implementations and identifies possible evolution in view of deployment in other installations during Long Shutdown 3 (LS3). PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 788 EP - 792 KW - controls KW - kicker KW - timing KW - operation KW - power-supply DA - 2024/02 PY - 2024 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-238-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP101 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/tupdp101.pdf ER - TY - CONF AU - Danzeca, S. AU - Luna Duran, J.L.D. AU - Masi, A. AU - Sierra, R. AU - Zimmaro, A. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Götz, Andy ED - Venter, Johan ED - White, Karen ED - Robichon, Marie ED - Rowland, Vivienne TI - Radiation-Tolerant Multi-Application Wireless IoT Platform for Harsh Environments J2 - Proc. of ICALEPCS2023, Cape Town, South Africa, 09-13 October 2023 CY - Cape Town, South Africa T2 - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems T3 - 19 LA - english AB - We introduce a radiation-tolerant multi-application wireless IoT platform, specifically designed for deployment in harsh environments such as particle accelerators. The platform integrates radiation-tolerant hardware with the possibility of covering different applications and use cases, including temperature and humidity monitoring, as well as simple equipment control functions. The hardware is capable of withstanding high levels of radiation and communicates wirelessly using LoRa technology, which reduces infrastructure costs and enables quick and easy deployment of operational devices. To validate the platform’s suitability for different applications, we have deployed a radiation monitoring version in the CERN particle accelerator complex and begun testing multi-purpose application devices in radiation test facilities. Our radiation-tolerant IoT platform, in conjunction with the entire network and data management system, opens up possibilities for different applications in harsh environments. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1051 EP - 1057 KW - radiation KW - network KW - controls KW - monitoring KW - operation DA - 2024/02 PY - 2024 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-238-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-WE3AO01 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/we3ao01.pdf ER - TY - CONF AU - Masi, A. AU - Andreassen, O.Ø. AU - Arruat, M. AU - Danzeca, S. AU - Di Castro, M. AU - Donzé, M. AU - Fargier, S.F. AU - Ferraro, R. AU - Gulin, M. AU - Kozsar, I. AU - Matheson, E.W. AU - Palluel, J.P. AU - Peronnard, P. AU - Serrano, J. AU - Soria, E. AU - Tagg, J. AU - Vaga, F. AU - Van der Bij, E. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Götz, Andy ED - Venter, Johan ED - White, Karen ED - Robichon, Marie ED - Rowland, Vivienne TI - SAMbuCa: Sensors Acquisition and Motion Control Framework at CERN J2 - Proc. of ICALEPCS2023, Cape Town, South Africa, 09-13 October 2023 CY - Cape Town, South Africa T2 - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems T3 - 19 LA - english AB - Motion control systems at CERN often have challenging requirements, such as high precision in extremely radioactive environments with millisecond synchronization. These demanding specifications are particularly relevant for Beam Intercepting Devices (BIDs) such as the collimators of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Control electronics must be installed in safe areas, hundreds of meters away from the sensors and actuators while conventional industrial systems only work with cable lengths up to a few tens of meters. To address this, several years of R&D have been committed to developing a high precision motion control system. This has resulted in specialized radiation-hard actuators, new sensors, novel algorithms and actuator control solutions capable of operating in this challenging environment. The current LHC Collimator installation is based on off-the-shelf components from National Instruments. During the Long Shutdown 3 (LS3 2026-2028), the existing systems will be replaced by a new high-performance Sensors Acquisition and Motion Control system (SAMbuCa). SAMbuCa represents a complete, in-house developed, flexible and modular solution, able to cope with the demanding requirements of motion control at CERN, and incorporating the R&D achievements and operational experience of the last 15 years controlling more than 1200 axes at CERN. In this paper, the hardware and software architectures, their building blocks and design are described in detail. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1179 EP - 1186 KW - controls KW - hardware KW - framework KW - operation KW - interface DA - 2024/02 PY - 2024 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-238-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TH2BCO04 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/th2bco04.pdf ER - TY - CONF AU - Charrondière, C. AU - Andreassen, O.Ø. AU - Ballarino, A. AU - Barth, C. AU - Boutboul, T. AU - Fleiter, J.F. AU - Hopkins, S.C. AU - Koziol, P. AU - Reymond, H. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Götz, Andy ED - Venter, Johan ED - White, Karen ED - Robichon, Marie ED - Rowland, Vivienne TI - The Micro-Services of Cern’s Critical Current Test Benches J2 - Proc. of ICALEPCS2023, Cape Town, South Africa, 09-13 October 2023 CY - Cape Town, South Africa T2 - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems T3 - 19 LA - english AB - In order to characterize the critical-current density of low temperature superconductors such as niobium¿titanium (NbTi) and niobium¿tin (Nb₃Sn) or high temperature superconductors such as magnesium-diboride MgB₂ or Rare-earth Barium Copper Oxide REBCO tapes, a wide range of custom instruments and interfaces are used. The critical current of a superconductor depends on temperature, magnetic field, current and strain, requiring high precision measurements in the nano Volt range, well-synchronized instrumentation, and the possibility to quickly adapt and replace instrumentation if needed. The micro-service based application presented in this paper allows operators to measure a variety of analog signals, such as the temperature of the cryostats and sample under test, magnetic field, current passing through the sample, voltage across the sample, pressure, helium level etc. During the run, the software protects the sample from quenching, controlling the current passed through it using high-speed field programmable gate array (FPGA) systems on Linux Real-Time (RT) based PCI eXtensions controllers (PXIe). The application records, analyzes and reports to the external Oracle database all parameters related to the test. In this paper, we describe the development of the micro-service based control system, how the interlocks and protection functionalities work, and how we had to develop a multi-windowed scalable acquisition application that could be adapted to the many changes occurring in the test facility. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1295 EP - 1300 KW - controls KW - software KW - operation KW - FPGA KW - power-supply DA - 2024/02 PY - 2024 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-238-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THPDP002 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/thpdp002.pdf ER - TY - CONF AU - Strobino, L. AU - Magnin, N. AU - Voumard, N. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Götz, Andy ED - Venter, Johan ED - White, Karen ED - Robichon, Marie ED - Rowland, Vivienne TI - Consolidation of the Power Trigger Controllers of the LHC Beam Dumping System J2 - Proc. of ICALEPCS2023, Cape Town, South Africa, 09-13 October 2023 CY - Cape Town, South Africa T2 - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems T3 - 19 LA - english AB - The Power Trigger Controller (PTC) of the LHC Beam Dumping System (LBDS) is in charge of the control and supervision of the Power Trigger Units (PTU), which are used to trigger the conduction of the 50 High-Voltage Pulsed Generators (HVPG) of the LBDS kicker magnets. This card is integrated in an Industrial Control System (ICS) and has the double role of controlling the PTU operating mode and monitoring its status, and of supervising the LBDS triggering and re-triggering systems. As part of the LBDS consolidation during the LHC Long Shutdown 2 (LS2), a new PTC card was designed, based on a System-on-Chip (SoC) implemented in an FPGA. The FPGA contains an ARM Cortex-M3 softcore processor and all the required peripherals to communicate with onboard ADCs and DACs (3rd-party IPs or custom-made ones) as well as with an interchangeable fieldbus communication module, allowing the board to be integrated in various types of industrial control networks in view of future evolution. This new architecture is presented together with the advantages in terms of modularity and reusability for future projects. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1439 EP - 1443 KW - controls KW - FPGA KW - network KW - software KW - power-supply DA - 2024/02 PY - 2024 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-238-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THPDP056 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/thpdp056.pdf ER - TY - CONF AU - Voumard, N. AU - Magnin, N. AU - Van Trappen, P. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Götz, Andy ED - Venter, Johan ED - White, Karen ED - Robichon, Marie ED - Rowland, Vivienne TI - SPS Beam Dump Enhancements on Tracking and Synchronization J2 - Proc. of ICALEPCS2023, Cape Town, South Africa, 09-13 October 2023 CY - Cape Town, South Africa T2 - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems T3 - 19 LA - english AB - During Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) at CERN, the SPS Beam Dumping System (SBDS) was completely renovated and relocated to SPS Point 5. This allowed to deploy at the SPS the Beam Energy Tracking System (BETS) and the Trigger Synchronization Unit (TSU), initially designed for and operational at the LHC Beam Dumping System (LBDS). The challenge encountered in this migration was the dynamic multi-cycle operation scheme with fast ramping cycles of the SPS in comparison to the long physics periods at stable energy of the LHC. This paper describes the modification of both BETS and TSU systems as well as the automatic arming sequence put in place, including the interactions with the SPS injection, the beam revolution frequency, and the Beam Interlock System (BIS). PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1444 EP - 1448 KW - injection KW - kicker KW - controls KW - timing KW - operation DA - 2024/02 PY - 2024 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-238-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THPDP057 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/thpdp057.pdf ER -