TY - CONF AU - Müller, R. AU - Allan, D.B. AU - Görzig, H. AU - Hartmann, G. AU - Kiefer, K. AU - Ovsyannikov, R. AU - Smith, W. AU - Vadilonga, S. AU - Viefhaus, J. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Götz, Andy ED - Venter, Johan ED - White, Karen ED - Robichon, Marie ED - Rowland, Vivienne TI - Experimental Data Taking and Management: The Upgrade Process at BESSY II and HZB 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 endeavor of modernizing science data acquisition at BESSY II started 2019 Significant achievements have been made: the Bluesky software ecosystem is now accepted framework for data acquisition, flow control and automation. It is operational at an increasing number of HZB beamlines, endstations and instruments. Participation in the global Bluesky collaboration is an extremely empowering experience. Promoting FAIR data principles at all levels developed a unifying momentum, providing guidance at less obvious design considerations. Now a joint demonstrator project of DESY, HZB, HZDR and KIT, named ROCK-IT (Remote Operando Controlled Knowledge-driven, IT-based), aims at portable solutions for fully automated measurements in the catalysis area of material science and is spearheading common developments. Foundation there is laid by Bluesky data acquisition, AI/ML support and analysis, modular sample environment, robotics and FAIR data handling. This paper puts present HZB controls projects as well as detailed HZB contributions to this conference into context. It outlines strategies providing appropriate digital tools at a successor 4th generation light source BESSY III. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 84 EP - 89 KW - experiment KW - controls KW - EPICS KW - data-acquisition KW - MMI DA - 2024/02 PY - 2024 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-238-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-MO2AO04 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/mo2ao04.pdf ER - TY - CONF AU - Bundesmann, J. AU - Denker, A. AU - Heufelder, J. AU - Kourkafas, G. AU - Mühldorfer, P. AU - Weber, A. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Götz, Andy ED - Venter, Johan ED - White, Karen ED - Robichon, Marie ED - Rowland, Vivienne TI - Fast Beam Delivery for Flash Irradiations at the HZB Cyclotron 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 the context of radiotherapy, Flash irradiations mean the delivery of high dose rates of more than 40 Gy/s, in a short time of less than one second. The expectation of the radio-oncologists are lesser side effects while maintaining the tumour control when using Flash. Clinically acceptable deviations of the applied dose to the described dose are less than 3\%. Our accelerator control system is well suited for the standard treatment of ocular melanomas with irradiaton times of 30 s to 60 s. However, it is too slow for the short times required in Flash. Thus, a dedicated beam delivery control system has been developed, permitting irradiation times down to 7 ms with a maximal dose variation of less than 3\%. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 178 EP - 182 KW - radiation KW - controls KW - experiment KW - proton KW - cyclotron DA - 2024/02 PY - 2024 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-238-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-MO3BCO07 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/mo3bco07.pdf ER - TY - CONF AU - Greve, N. AU - Brendike, M. AU - Kraft, D.K. AU - Neu, M. AU - Pfeiffer, G. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Götz, Andy ED - Venter, Johan ED - White, Karen ED - Robichon, Marie ED - Rowland, Vivienne TI - Status on Continuous Scans at BESSY II 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 - Continuous energy scanning is an important feature for many beamlines at BESSY II. In 2015 this method was used at 11 Undulator and 6 dipol beamlines. Since then the demand for this feature - especially among new build beamlines - increased, while the availability of the used hardware decreased. In order to tackle this problem, we investigate into alternative solutions for both, hardware and software. By introducing an independent high level controller between the two device controllers, we can compensate for communication incompatibilities and hence increase flexibility. This paper shows the status of our research. The ideas leading to a first prototype, the prototype itself and first results will be presented. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 513 EP - 517 KW - controls KW - undulator KW - software KW - hardware KW - interface DA - 2024/02 PY - 2024 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-238-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP013 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/tupdp013.pdf ER - TY - CONF AU - He, H.L. AU - Ovsyannikov, R. AU - Preuß, G. AU - Sachse, S.S. AU - Smith, W. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Götz, Andy ED - Venter, Johan ED - White, Karen ED - Robichon, Marie ED - Rowland, Vivienne TI - Bluesky Web Client at Bessy II 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 - Considering the existing Bluesky control framework at BESSY II, a web client with React based on Bluesky HTTP Server is being developed. We hope to achieve a cross-platform and cross-device system to realize remote control and monitoring of experiments. The current functions of the system are monitoring of the Bluesky Queue Server status, control over a Bluesky Run Engine environment, browsing of Queue Server history and editing and running of Bluesky plans. Challenges around the presentation of live data are explored. This work builds on that of NSLS II who created a React based web interface and implements a tool for BESSY II. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 518 EP - 521 KW - experiment KW - controls KW - status KW - interface KW - real-time DA - 2024/02 PY - 2024 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-238-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP014 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/tupdp014.pdf ER - TY - CONF AU - Kraft, D.K. AU - Brendike, M. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Götz, Andy ED - Venter, Johan ED - White, Karen ED - Robichon, Marie ED - Rowland, Vivienne TI - Test Bench for Motor and Motion Controller Characterization 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 - To maximize beamtime usage motorization of beamline equipment is crucial. Choosing the correct motor is complex, since performance depends largely on the combination of motor and motion controller. This challenge, alongside renewing the twenty years old infrastructure at BESSY II, led to the demand for a motor testbench. The testbench was designed to be modular, so it fits different motors, loads and sensors. It allows independent performance verification and enables us to find a fitting combination of motor and motion controller. The testbench is operated via EPICS and Bluesky, allowing us usage of python for automated data acquisition and testing. An overview of the mechanical and electrical setup, as well as some data from different performance tests will be presented. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 522 EP - 525 KW - controls KW - experiment KW - EPICS KW - GUI KW - data-acquisition DA - 2024/02 PY - 2024 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-238-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP015 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/tupdp015.pdf ER - TY - CONF AU - Gotz, M. AU - Birke, T. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Götz, Andy ED - Venter, Johan ED - White, Karen ED - Robichon, Marie ED - Rowland, Vivienne TI - Migrating from Alarm Handler to Phoebus Alarm-Server at BESSY II 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 BESSY II lightsource has been in operation at Helmholtz-Center Berlin (HZB) for 25 years and is expected to be operated for more than the next decade. The EPICS Alarm Handler (alh) has served as the basis for a reliable alarm system for BESSY II as well as other facilities and laboratories operated by HZB. To preempt software obsolescence and enable a centralized architecture for other Alarm Handlers running throughout HZB, the alarm system is being migrated to the alarm-service developed within the Control System Studio/Phoebus ecosystem. To facilitate operation of the Alarm Handler, while evaluating the new system, tools were developed to automate creation of the Phoebus alarm-service configuration files in the control systems’ build process. Additionally, tools and configurations were devised to mirror the old system’s key features in the new one. This contribution presents the tools developed and the infrastructure deployed to use the Phoebus alarm-service at HZB. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 526 EP - 528 KW - controls KW - network KW - EPICS KW - GUI KW - ISOL DA - 2024/02 PY - 2024 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-238-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP016 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/tupdp016.pdf ER - TY - CONF AU - Götz, A. AU - AlMohammad, M. AU - Austin, P. AU - Bodin, M. AU - Bozhinov, V. AU - Cabezas Quirós, R. AU - Davies, L.E. AU - De Maria Antolinos, A. AU - Gaonach, M. AU - Gonzalez Beltran, A. AU - Krahl, R. AU - Matalgah, S.A. AU - Phipps, K.S. AU - Pinto, A. AU - Syder, K. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Götz, Andy ED - Venter, Johan ED - White, Karen ED - Robichon, Marie ED - Rowland, Vivienne TI - Extending the ICAT Metadata Catalogue to New Scientific Use Cases 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 ICAT metadata catalogue is a flexible solution for managing scientific metadata and data from a wide variety of domains following the FAIR data principles. This paper will present an update of recent developments of the ICAT metadata catalogue and the latest status of the ICAT collaboration. ICAT was originally developed by UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to manage the scientific data of ISIS Neutron and Muon Source and Diamond Light Source. They have since been joined by a number of other institutes including ESRF, HZB, SESAME, and ALBA who together now form the ICAT Collaboration. ICAT has been used to manage petabytes of scientific data for ISIS, DLS, ESRF, HZB, and in the future SESAME and ALBA and make these data FAIR. The latest version of the ICAT core as well as the new user interfaces, DataGateway and DataHub, and extensions to ICAT for implementing free text searching, a common search interface across Photon and Neutron catalogues, a protocol-based interface that allows making the metadata available for findability, electronic logbooks, sample tracking, and web-based data and domain specific viewers developed by the community will be presented. Finally recent developments to use ICAT to develop applications for processed data with rich metadata in the fields of small angle scattering, macromolecular crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy will be described. https://icatproject.org PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1033 EP - 1040 KW - experiment KW - SRF KW - site KW - synchrotron KW - interface DA - 2024/02 PY - 2024 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-238-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-WE3BCO07 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/we3bco07.pdf ER - TY - CONF AU - Günther, G. AU - Baunack, S. AU - Capozza, L. AU - Freyermuth, O. AU - Gonzalez-Caminal, P. AU - Gou, B. AU - Isaak, J. AU - Karstensen, S. AU - Lindner, A. AU - Maas, F. AU - Mannix, O. AU - Mistry, A.K. AU - Oceano, I. AU - Schneide, C. AU - Schwarz, K. AU - Schörner-Sadenius, T. AU - Serve, V. AU - Stein, L.-M. AU - Typel, S. AU - Wilfert, M.C. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Götz, Andy ED - Venter, Johan ED - White, Karen ED - Robichon, Marie ED - Rowland, Vivienne TI - IR of FAIR - Principles at the Instrument Level 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 - Awareness of the need for FAIR data management has increased in recent years but examples of how to achieve this are often missing. Focusing on the large-scale instrument A4 at the MAMI accelerator, we transfer findings of the EMIL project at the BESSY synchrotron to improve raw data, i.e. the primary output stored on long-term basis, according to the FAIR principles. Here, the instrument control software plays a key role as the central authority to start measurements and orchestrate connected (meta)data-taking processes. In regular discussions we incorporate the experiences of a wider community and engage to optimize instrument output through various measures from conversion to machine-readable formats over metadata enrichment to additional files creating scientific context. The improvements were already applied to currently built next generation instruments and could serve as a general guideline for publishing data sets. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1046 EP - 1050 KW - experiment KW - software KW - GUI KW - framework KW - controls DA - 2024/02 PY - 2024 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-238-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-WE3BCO09 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/we3bco09.pdf ER - TY - CONF AU - Wegmann, P. AU - Faulhaber, E. AU - Kiefer, K. AU - Mannix, O. AU - Rossa, L. AU - Smith, W. AU - Zolliker, M. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Götz, Andy ED - Venter, Johan ED - White, Karen ED - Robichon, Marie ED - Rowland, Vivienne TI - SECoP Integration for the Ophyd Hardware Abstraction Layer 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 - At the core of the Bluesky experimental control ecosystem the ophyd hardware abstraction, a consistent high-level interface layer, is extremely powerful for complex device integration. It introduces the device data model to EPICS and eases integration of alien control protocols. This paper focuses on the integration of the Sample Environment Communication Protocol (SECoP) into the ophyd layer, enabling seamless incorporation of sample environment hardware into beamline experiments at photon and neutron sources. The SECoP integration was designed to have a simple interface and provide plug-and-play functionality while preserving all metadata and structural information about the controlled hardware. Leveraging the self-describing characteristics of SECoP, automatic generation and configuration of ophyd devices is facilitated upon connecting to a Sample Environment Control (SEC) node. This work builds upon a modified SECoP-client provided by the Frappy framework, intended for programming SEC nodes with a SECoP interface. This paper presents an overview of the architecture and implementation of the ophyd-SECoP integration and includes examples for better understanding. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1212 EP - 1215 KW - hardware KW - interface KW - controls KW - status KW - EPICS DA - 2024/02 PY - 2024 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-238-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THMBCMO10 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/thmbcmo10.pdf ER - TY - CONF AU - Günther, G. AU - Mannix, O. AU - Ruslan, O. AU - Vadilonga, S. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Götz, Andy ED - Venter, Johan ED - White, Karen ED - Robichon, Marie ED - Rowland, Vivienne TI - FAIR Data of Physical and Digital Beamlines 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 - Simulations play a crucial role in instrument design, as a digital precursor of a real-world object they contain a comprehensive description of the setup. Unfortunately, this digital representation is often neglected once the real instrument is fully commissioned. To preserve the symbiosis of simulated and real-world instrument beyond commissioning we connect the two worlds through the instrument control software. The instrument control simultaneously starts measurements and simulations, receives feedback from both, and directs (meta)data to a NeXus file - a standard format in photon and neutron science. The instrument section of the produced NeXus file is enriched with detailed simulation parameters where the current state of the instrument is reflected by including real motor positions such as incorporating the actual aperture of a slit system. As a result, the enriched instrument description increases the reusability of experimental data in sense of the FAIR principles. The data is ready to be exploited by machine-learning techniques, such as for predictive maintenance applications as it is possible to perform simulations of a measurement directly from the NeXus file. The realization at the Aquarius beamline at Bessy II in connection with the Ray-UI simulation software and RayPyNG API serves as a prototype for a more general application. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1231 EP - 1235 KW - simulation KW - experiment KW - software KW - controls KW - GUI DA - 2024/02 PY - 2024 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-238-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THMBCMO17 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/thmbcmo17.pdf ER - TY - CONF AU - Vadilonga, S. AU - Günther, G. AU - Kazarski, S. AU - Ovsyannikov, R. AU - Sachse, S.S. AU - Smith, W. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Götz, Andy ED - Venter, Johan ED - White, Karen ED - Robichon, Marie ED - Rowland, Vivienne TI - Advancements in Beamline Digital Twin at BESSYII 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 - This presentation reports on the status of beamline digital twins at BESSY II. To provide a comprehensive beamline simulation experience we have leveraged BESSY II’s x-ray tracing program, RAY-UI, widely used for beamline design and commissioning and best adapted to the requirements of our soft X-ray source BESSY II. We created a Python API, RayPyNG, capable to convert our library of beamline configuration files produced by RAY-UI into Python objects. This allows to embed beamline simulation into Bluesky, our experimental controls software ecosystem. All optical elements are mapped directly into the Bluesky device abstraction (Ophyd). Thus beamline operators can run simulations and operate real systems by a common interface, allowing to directly compare theory predictions with real-time results. We will discuss the relevance of this digital twin for process tuning in terms of enhanced beamline performance and streamlined operations. We will shortly discuss alternatives to RAY-UI like other software packages and ML/AI surrogate models. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1236 EP - 1237 KW - simulation KW - operation KW - software KW - experiment KW - MMI DA - 2024/02 PY - 2024 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-238-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THMBCMO18 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/thmbcmo18.pdf ER - TY - CONF AU - Smith, W. AU - Arce, M. AU - Bär, M. AU - Gorgoi, M. AU - Jimenez, C.E. AU - Rudolph, I. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Götz, Andy ED - Venter, Johan ED - White, Karen ED - Robichon, Marie ED - Rowland, Vivienne TI - Using ArUco Codes for Beam Spot Analysis with a Camera at an Unknown Position 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 - Measuring the focus size and position of an X-ray beam at the interaction point in an synchrotron beamline is a critical parameter that is used when planning experiments and when determining if a beamline is achieving it’s design goals. Commonly this is performed using a dedicated UHV "focus chamber" comprising a fluorescent screen at an adjustable calibrated distance from the mounting flange and a camera on the same axis as the beam. Having to install a large piece of hardware makes regular checks prohibitively time consuming. A fluorescent screen can be mounted to a sample holder and moved using a manipulator in the existing end-station and a camera pointed at this to show a warped version of the beam spot at the interaction point. The warping of the image is caused by the relative position of the camera to the screen, which is difficult to determine and can change and come out of camera focus as the manipulator is moved. This paper proposes a solution to this problem using ArUco codes printed onto a fluorescent screen which provide a reference in the image. Reference points from the ArUco codes are recovered from an image and used to correct warping and provide a calibration in real time using an EPICS AreaDetector plugin using OpenCV. This analysis is presently in commissioning and aims to characterise the beam spots at the dual-colour beamline of the EMIL laboratory at BESSY II. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1264 EP - 1268 KW - EPICS KW - detector KW - HOM KW - MMI KW - controls DA - 2024/02 PY - 2024 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-238-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THMBCMO30 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/thmbcmo30.pdf ER - TY - CONF AU - Rossa, L. AU - Brendike, M. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Götz, Andy ED - Venter, Johan ED - White, Karen ED - Robichon, Marie ED - Rowland, Vivienne TI - EPICS Integration for Rapid Control Prototyping Hardware from Speedgoat 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 - To exploit the full potential of fourth generation Synchrotron Sources, new beamline instrumentation is increasingly developed with a mechatronics approach. [,,***] Implementing this approach raises the need for Rapid Control Prototyping (RCP) and Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) simulations. To integrate such RCP and HIL systems into every-day beamline operation we developed an interface from a Speedgoat real-time performance machine - programmable via MATLAB Simulink - to EPICS. The interface was developed to be simple to use and still flexible. The Simulink software developer uses dedicated Simulink-blocks to export model information and real-time data into structured UDP Ethernet frames. The corresponding EPICS IOC listens to the UDP frames and auto-generates a corresponding database file to fit the data-stream from the Simulink model. The EPICS IOC can run on either a beamline measurement PC or to keep things spatially close on a mini PC (such as a Raspberry Pi) attached to the Speedgoat machine. An overview of the interface idea, architecture and implementation, together with some simple examples will be presented. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1317 EP - 1321 KW - EPICS KW - hardware KW - controls KW - real-time KW - interface DA - 2024/02 PY - 2024 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-238-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THPDP013 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/thpdp013.pdf ER - TY - CONF AU - Kiefer, K. AU - Brandl, G. AU - Ekström, N. AU - Faulhaber, E. AU - Klemke, B. AU - Kotanski, J. AU - Kracht, T. AU - Pettersson, A. AU - Rossa, L. AU - Wegmann, P. AU - Zaft, A. AU - Zolliker, M. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Götz, Andy ED - Venter, Johan ED - White, Karen ED - Robichon, Marie ED - Rowland, Vivienne TI - SECoP and SECoP@HMC - Metadata in the Sample Environment Communication Protocol 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 integration of sample environment (SE) equipment in x-ray and neutron experiments is a complex challenge both in the physical world and in the digital world. Dif-ferent experiment control software offer different interfac-es for the connection of SE equipment. Therefore, it is time-consuming to integrate new SE or to share SE equipment between facilities. To tackle this problem, the International Society for Sample Environment (ISSE, ) developed the Sample Environment Communication Protocol (SECoP) to standardize the communication between instrument control software and SE equipment. SECoP offers, on the one hand, a generalized way to control SE equipment. On the other hand, SECoP holds the possibility to transport SE metadata in a well-defined way. In addition, SECoP provides machine readable self-description of the SE equipment which enables a fully automated integration into the instrument control soft-ware and into the processes for data storage. Using SECoP as a common standard for controlling SE equipment and generating SE metadata will save resources and intrinsi-cally give the opportunity to supply standardized and FAIR data compliant SE metadata. It will also supply a well-defined interface for user-provided SE equipment, for equipment shared by different research facilities and for industry. In this article will show how SECoP can help to provide a meaningful and complete set of metadata for SE equipment and we will present SECoP and the SECoP@HMC project supported by the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1322 EP - 1324 KW - controls KW - experiment KW - software KW - neutron KW - interface DA - 2024/02 PY - 2024 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-238-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THPDP014 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/thpdp014.pdf ER - TY - CONF AU - Karstensen, S. AU - Gonzalez-Caminal, P. AU - Günther, G. AU - Lindner, A. AU - Mannix, O. AU - Oceano, I. AU - Rybnikov, V. AU - Schwarz, K. AU - Sedov, G. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Götz, Andy ED - Venter, Johan ED - White, Karen ED - Robichon, Marie ED - Rowland, Vivienne TI - Creating of HDF5 Files as Data Source for Analyses Using the Example of ALPS IIc and the DOOCS Control 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 - ALPS II is a light-shining through a wall (LSW) experiment to search for WISPs (very Weakly Interacting Slim Particles). Potential WISP candidates are axion-like particles or hidden sector photons. Axion-like particles may convert to light (and vice versa) in presence of a magnetic field. Similarly, hidden sector photons "mix" with light independent of any magnetic fields. This is exploited by ALPS II- Light from strong laser is shone into a magnetic field. Laser photons can be converted into a WISPs in front of a light-blocking barrier and reconverted into photons behind that barrier.  The experiment exploits optical resonators for laser power build-up in a large-scale optical cavity to boost the available power for the WISP production as well as their reconversion probability to light. The Distributed Object-Oriented Control System - DOOCS - provides a versatile software framework for creating accelerator-based control system applications. These can range from monitoring simple temperature sensors up to high-level controls and feedbacks of beam parameters as required for complex accelerator operations. In order to enable data analysis by researchers who do not have access to the DOOCS internal control system to read measured values, the measurement and control data are extracted from the control system and saved in HDF5 file format. Through this process, the data is decoupled from the control system and can be analysed on the NAF computer system, among other things. NodeRed acts here as a graphical tool for creating HDF5 files. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1570 EP - 1572 KW - controls KW - experiment KW - software KW - photon KW - GUI DA - 2024/02 PY - 2024 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-238-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THPDP101 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/thpdp101.pdf ER - TY - CONF AU - Sulaiman Khail, W. AU - Ries, M. AU - Schnitzer, P. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Götz, Andy ED - Venter, Johan ED - White, Karen ED - Robichon, Marie ED - Rowland, Vivienne TI - Developing a Digital Twin for BESSY II Synchrotron Light Source Based on EPICS and Microservice Design 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 - Digital twins, i.e. theory and design tools connected to the real devices and machine by mapping of physics components to the technical correspondents, are powerful tools providing accelerators with commissioning predictions and feedback capabilities. This paper describes a new tool allowing for greater flexibility in configuring the modelling part combined with ease of adding new features. To enable the various components developed in EPICS, Python, C, and C++ to work together seamlessly, we adopt a microservice architecture, with REST API services providing the interfaces between the components. End user scripts are implemented as REST API services, allowing for better data analysis and visualization. Finally, the paper describes the integration of dash and ploty for enhanced data comparison and visualization. Overall, this workflow provides a powerful and flexible solution for managing and optimizing BESSY II digital twins, with the potential for further customization and extension to upcoming machines. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1594 EP - 1599 KW - synchrotron KW - EPICS KW - controls KW - lattice KW - monitoring DA - 2024/02 PY - 2024 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-238-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-THSDSC06 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/thsdsc06.pdf ER -