PC-based applications programming on the SRS control system

Author

Martlew, B.G. ; Owen, H.L. ; Pugh, M.J. ; Rawlinson, W.R. ; Smith, S.L.

Author_Institution

CLRC Daresbury Lab., UK

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

12-16 May 1997

Firstpage

2443

Abstract

The CERN PC-based ISOLDE control system has been installed at the SRS electron storage ring at Daresbury Laboratory. The use of Windows NT for the control consoles together with PC and VME front-end computers running under several operating systems has resulted in a flexible and reliable system for accelerator control. The implementation and philosophy of control application programs, based around a suite of Microsoft Visual Basic and Excel programs, is described. In particular, the use of Excel to provide adaptable programs online allows rapid generation of new control functions; orbit correction and servoing at the application level are described as examples of this

Keywords

accelerator control systems; computerised control; electron accelerators; high energy physics instrumentation computing; microcomputer applications; storage rings; Excel; ISOLDE; SRS; Synchrotron Radiation Source; VME; Visual Basic; Windows NT; control system; electron storage ring; orbit correction; servoing; Application software; Communication system control; Control systems; Dynamic programming; Electrons; Laboratories; Operating systems; Radio frequency; Storage rings; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1997. Proceedings of the 1997

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4376-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1997.751234

Filename

751234