Speaker
Vardan Gyurjyan
(JEFFERSON LAB)
Description
Software agent based control system is implemented to control experiments running on
the CLAS detector at Jefferson Lab. Within the CLAS experiments DAQ, trigger,
detector and beam line control systems are both logically and physically separated,
and are implemented independently using a common software infrastructure. CLAS
experimental control system (ECS) was designed, using earlier developed FIPA agent
based control framework, to glue the data production subsystems into the uniform
control environment. The object models of the experiments are described using the
developed Control Oriented Ontology Language (COOL), allowing detailed specification
of the experimental objects such as their states, actions and associated conditions.
Experiment objects are assigned Java agents, grouped into the control domains,
operating in the open and distributed, multi-agent environment. Every agent domain,
representing experiment subsystem, can operate independently, yet can summarize
information for the above level domains or expand actions to the lower levels.
Primary author
Vardan Gyurjyan
(JEFFERSON LAB)
Co-authors
Carl Timmer
(Jefferson Lab)
David Abbott
(Jefferson Lab)
David Lawrence
(Jefferson Lab)
Ed Jastrzembski
(Jefferson Lab)
Elliott Wolin
(Jefferson Lab)
Graham Heyes
(Jefferson Lab)
Sergey Boyarinov
(Jefferson Lab)
