Status of the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System at NSTX

Author

Sichta, P. ; Dong, J.

Author_Institution

Plasma Phys. Lab., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

245

Lastpage

247

Abstract

The NSTX achieved first plasma in 1999. The Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) is used to provide data-integration services for monitoring and control of all NSTX engineering subsystems. EPICS is a set of software initially developed at US DOE laboratories. It Is currently used and maintained through a global collaboration of hundreds of scientists and engineers. This paper will relate some of our experiences using and supporting the EPICS software. Topics include reliability and maintainability, lessons learned, recently added engineering subsystems, new EPICS software tools, and a review of our first EPICS software upgrade. Steps to modernize the technical Infrastructure of EPICS to ensure effective support for NSTX will also be described.

Keywords

Tokamak devices; control engineering computing; nuclear engineering computing; software maintenance; software reliability; software tools; EPICS; Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System; NSTX; software maintainability; software reliability; software tools; software upgrade; Control systems; Data engineering; Industrial control; Maintenance engineering; Monitoring; Physics; Plasma applications; Reliability engineering; Software tools; US Department of Energy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fusion Engineering, 2002. 19th Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7073-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FUSION.2002.1027686

Filename

1027686