The control and the command of the Vivitron, a system managed with an OODBMS

Author

Bauman, R. ; Diaz, T. ; Jbil, A. ; Kapps, E. ; Knaebel, R. ; Marsaudon, J.C. ; Michel, L. ; Persigpy, J. ; Prevot, G. ; Stamm, Y.

Author_Institution

Inst. de Recherches Subatomiques, Strasbourg, France

Volume

45

Issue

4

fYear

1998

fDate

8/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2020

Lastpage

2025

Abstract

The architecture of the control system of the Vivitron is distributed. Thirteen VME crates, equipped with MC68040 boards, working at a potential from 0 to 20 MV, concentrate the measurements and the commands. These concentrators and the control room are federated in a private optical Ethernet network. The intelligence of the system is shared between the concentrators. 4 workstations inside the control room are strictly dedicated to the animation of the graphical user interface, managed with SL-GMS. The mechanisms of communication are only based on industrial standards. The whole system is described in an object oriented database. Each element, hardware device or software module, is represented in the database by numerical values such as addresses, calibrations or thresholds and a specific C function describing its behavior. The database generates automatically the code exclusively from this description

Keywords

accelerator control systems; calibration; distributed control; electrostatic accelerators; ion accelerators; local area networks; object-oriented databases; optical fibre communication; MC68040 boards; SL-GMS; VME crates; Vivitron; calibrations; graphical user interface; industrial standards; object oriented database; private optical Ethernet network; specific C function; Animation; Communication system control; Control systems; Ethernet networks; Graphical user interfaces; Intelligent systems; Object oriented databases; Optical control; Optical fiber networks; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.710983

Filename

710983