Participants for the LEIF LabVIEW Meeting in HMI
The Meeting starts May, 10, 2002 at 9.00 o’clock
and ends May 11, 2002 at 12.00 o’clock (or 14.00 o’clock including optional lunch)
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Participant |
Laboratory |
Talk |
Wednesd May 8 |
Thursd. May 9 |
Friday May 10 |
Saturday May 11 |
SundayMay 12 |
Mond. May 13 |
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1 |
John Aiken |
Belfast |
x |
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x |
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x |
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2 |
Kieran McAreavey |
Belfast |
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x |
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x |
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3 |
Stephan
Haidacher |
Innsbruck |
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x |
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x |
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4 |
Werner
Schustereder |
Innsbruck |
x |
16.30 |
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8.00 |
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5 |
Thomas
Schlathoelter |
Groningen |
x |
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x |
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x |
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6 |
Holger Kern |
Giessen |
x |
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14.21 |
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8.41 |
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7 |
Ernst
Galutschek |
Vienna |
x |
8.17 |
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19.55 |
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8 |
Laurant Manoury |
Caen |
x |
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9.21 |
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13.22 |
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9 |
J. Ettes |
NI Berlin |
x |
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** |
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9 |
R. Hellhammer |
HMI Berlin |
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** |
** |
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10 |
J. Bundesmann |
HMI Berlin |
x |
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** |
** |
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11 |
N. Stolterfoht |
HMI Berlin |
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** |
** |
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NI = National Instruments. The crosses indicate the Dates, numbers indicate Times for Arrival and Departure.
Program of the LEIF LabVIEW Meeting at HMI Berlin
Afternoon-evening: Arrival of the participants at HMI
Lodging in the HMI Guesthouse.
8.30 Breakfast at the HMI Guest house
9.00 Moving to the Seminar room
9.15 Welcome by N. Stolterfoht, Overview of the Meeting
9.30 Oral Presentation by J. Bundesmann of the HMI ECR control system
10.0 Coffee, Moving to the Control Room of the ECR source
10.30 Practical Presentation by J. Bundesmann of the HMI control system
12.0 End of the Morning Session
12.15 –13.45 Lunch
outside of HMI,
14.0 Introduction of the Speakers (N.S.)
14.10 Presentation of J. Ettes from National Instruments
15.00 Presentation from Belfast by John Aiken
15.20 Presentation from Innsbruck by W. Schustereder
15.40 Presentation from Groningen by T. Schlathoelter
16.00 Presentation from Giessen by H. Kern
16.20 Outlook for the evening and next day (N.S.)
16.30 End of the Afternoon Session
17.00 Tour of the ISL
Cyclotron showing Experiments
19.0
Dinner at a Restaurant near HMI
8.30 Breakfast at the HMI guest house
9.0 Moving to the Seminar room
9.10 Opening of the Morning Session, Organizational Remarks (N.S.)
9.20 Presentation from Vienna by E. Galutschek
9.40 Presentation from Caen by L. Manoury
10.0 Pause, Coffee
10.20 Round Table discussion about methods to exchange control systems
between Laboratories.
Individual contributions from each Laboratory are given.
11.40 Summary and Conclusions (N.S.)
12.00 End of the Meeting.
13.0
Lunch at a Restaurant (optional)
14.0 Tour to the Center of Berlin (optional).
Conclusions
from the LEIF LabVIEW Meeting
May
10/11, 2002 at HMI Berlin
The LabVIEW Meeting of 1 ½ days provided detailed information about the control systems of different laboratories working together within the framework of the LEIF Network. The Meeting took place in an informal manner letting room for several discussions between the participants. Specific attention has been devoted to the HMI control system CODIAN developed by Jürgen Bundesmann using LabVIEW. The program has a flexible architecture so that it can be combined with the different hardware concepts that are present or planned at the laboratories involved. The specific situations at the different laboratories were described in individual contributions expressing definite interest in the use of the CODIAN control system:
Berlin: Here, CODIAN is continuously running since more than a year to control the ECR source and the beam line components by means of FieldPoint electronics from National Instruments. The CODIAN system is further developed to extend the control over new source elements and to improve the communication (storage and recall) of source settings with a database.
Belfast: A LabVIEW system is used to fully control a H- collision experiment. In the future CODIAN shall be applied for the ECR source where a final decision about the hardware has not yet been made. Inexpensive hardware solutions with products of the company Amplicon (Amplicon.co.uk) are being explored. If this electronics turns out to be not suitable, hardware by National Instrument shall be chosen.
Innsbruck: Two activities are in preparation involving LabVIEW. (i) An ECR source shall be installed where it is planned to use CODIAN. A hardware set-up involving PC cards from National Instruments shall be used. (ii) A fully LabVIEW driven Mass Spectrometer is planned where particular emphasis is given to the control of vacuum pumps and gauges. It appears that CODIAN is not the appropriate system in this case, however, definite interest exist to follow the development of the vacuum control.
Giessen: An older programming concept with LabWindows exists to control ECR sources by means of PC cards from National Instruments. In the future it is planned to replace the older programs by CODIAN keeping the PC cards.
Utrecht: LabView is used to run experiments, but no experience exists to control the ECR source. It is planned to use CODIAN to control power supplies from the companies FUG and Danfysik. Final decisions on the electronic interfaces are not yet made but PC cards or FieldPoint shall probably be used.
Vienna: Experience exists using LabVIEW in conjunction with different electronics solutions. Economic PC cards from Advantech turned out to be insufficiently supported by LabVIEW drivers so that instead PC cards from National Instruments have been chosen. CODIAN shall be used in the future to control the ECR sources and FieldPoint electronics will be considered as a hardware solution.
Caen: Extensive work has been performed with LabVIEW to control the ECR source and the beam lines of the LIMBE facility. For a new project using a CAPRICE source CODIAN shall be used in conjunction with FieldPoint electronics. In Caen power supplies have a specific protocol (JBus), which is required to be implemented in CODIAN. Caprice is planned to start in 2003.
In conclusion, it was agreed that the LabVIEW system CODIAN shall be adapted by all laboratories having participated at the Meeting.
Jürgen Bundesmann (JB) is willing to transfer CODIAN to the laboratories within LEIF. He points out that it makes no sense to use the source code, since it may not be mastered without significant assistance. Since the program has a flexible architecture, JB will implement the drivers necessary to control the electronic devices used at different laboratories. Most of the laboratories use devices from National Instruments (PC cards and FieldPoint), which can be controlled by drivers already available in LabVIEW. These drives will soon be implemented into CODIAN. In addition, users may send specific drivers to JB (e.g. those for the JBus protocol and stepper motors) for implementation. Also it is planned to offer an interface to link CODIAN with LabVIEW programs existing or to be written at other laboratories.
Rules: For the use of CODIAN it was agreed to accept a few common rules: (i) use of LabVIEW version 6.0 or higher, (ii) use of a monitor resolution of 1024x768 pixels, (iii) use of the TCP/IP protocol for the software link between CODIAN and other LabVIEW programs.
Time schedule: The communication with the users concerning their demands and the changes of CODIAN will take a few months. Then, the program will be transferred to the laboratories.
The participants expressed their opinion that the Meeting was very productive and it should be continued within one year.
HMI Berlin, May 11, 2002
Nico Stolterfoht