Development of a man/machine interface system for the JT-60 upgrade

Author

Yonekawa, I. ; Shimono, M. ; Totsuka, T. ; Yamagishi, K.

Author_Institution

JAERI, Ibaraki, Japan

fYear

1991

fDate

30 Sep-3 Oct 1991

Firstpage

798

Abstract

The authors describe the design and initial operation of a new JT-60 (JAERI Tokamak-60) man-machine interface system built in workstations. Development of the system was stimulated by the requirements of making of JT-60 operator interface more friendly on the basis of the past five years of operational experience. Eleven Sun/3 workstations and their supervisory minicomputer HIDIC V90/45 are connected through the standard network, Ethernet. The network is also connected to the existing ZENKEI minicomputer system through the shared memory on the HIDIC V90/45 minicomputer. Improved software, such as automatic setting of the discharge conditions, consistency check among the related parameters, and easy operation for discharge result data display, provides the user-friendly environments. This man-machine interface system leads to the efficient JT-60 upgrade operation

Keywords

Tokamak devices; fusion reactor instrumentation; fusion reactor theory and design; user interfaces; Ethernet; JAERI Tokamak-60; JT-60 upgrade; JT-60U; Sun/3 workstations; ZENKEI minicomputer system; man-machine interface system; shared memory; supervisory minicomputer HIDIC V90/45; user-friendly environments; workstations; CAMAC; Coils; Computer interfaces; Computer networks; Control systems; Data flow computing; Ethernet networks; Plasma displays; Shape control; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fusion Engineering, 1991. Proceedings., 14th IEEE/NPSS Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0132-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FUSION.1991.218727

Filename

218727