Speaker
Eugenia Hatziangeli
(AB-CO)
Description
Applications for LHC hardware commissioning are being built as part
of the development effort put in place since 2002 for the LHC era
applications. For classic operations, like Power Converters controls,
we aim to reuse the software developed for TI8. At the same time a
huge effort is underway to introduce new industrial controls for the
supervision of several important systems like the QPS, QRL and PIC,
in the traditional controls approach.
Our strategy is to develop once, using a simple and iterative
development model and to exploit every possible controls milestone,
using dry runs, to validate the complete integration of our systems
and to improve the functionality.
Our software development is based on standard CO components and
general services, some already available and tested successfully for
TI8. In the front ends, a framework for building device servers
(FESA) is offered to the equipment groups. The Java controls
applications are built on top of existing core business logic, while
the supervisory applications are based on SCADA (PVSS) systems. Both
the SCADA and Java based controls are coupled via CMW for data
exchange. General CO services for handling and displaying Alarms,
post-mortem, measurements and logging, fixed displays and console
manager are being finalised and will be available for the hardware
commissioning phase. The Technical Network will be used for the
network communications and a new security policy will be applied to
isolate this network from outside intrusion and to manage, monitor
and secure the connectivity inside the domain.
This autumn, the hardware commissioning will be a major milestone and
a new phase for controls. It is the first time that existing and new
mainstream and industrial based software will be integrated
seamlessly to interchange data, while automated procedures will
provide efficient means for repetitive tasks. At the same time the
strict network security policy will have to be taken into account to
allow for the smooth running of the commissioning.
Author
Eugenia Hatziangeli
(AB-CO)
