Start-Up of the New CPS Controls System and Switch-Over of the 800 MeV Booster Controls

Author

Baribaud, G. ; Battisti, S. ; Benincasa, G.P. ; Boillot, J. ; Boutheon, M. ; Cailliau, R. ; Carpenter, B. ; Cuperus, J. ; Daems, G. ; Daneels, A. ; Debordes, R. ; Delahaye, J.P. ; Frammery, B. ; Gagnaire, A. ; Hallberg, D. ; Heinze, W. ; Heymans, P. ; Kug

Author_Institution

CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland

Volume

28

Issue

3

fYear

1981

fDate

6/1/1981 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2267

Lastpage

2269

Abstract

The new CPS controls system was successfully put into operation on 19 November, 1980, when the 800 MeV Booster, after switching over to the new system, was started up for particle physics. A subset of the new system had already been installed on the Antiproton Accumulator in Spring 1980 and has reliably served several months of engineering run. The Booster machine and control of the CPS cycle generation are now routinely operated by the new system which is based on distributed processing, extensively applying microprocessors in the interface. The problems encountered in converting existing accelerator controls, the control switchover itself and operational experience gained up to the date of the conference are described.

Keywords

CAMAC; Centralized control; Control systems; Distributed processing; Hardware; Microprocessors; Multiplexing; Particle accelerators; Reliability engineering; Springs;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.1981.4331658

Filename

4331658