AUTOMATION OF THE ELECTRON SYNCHROTRON AT THE PHYSICS INSTITUTE OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AT 1.3 GeV AS THE FIRST UPGRADE STEP

Alekseev, V. M.
Busygin, V. P.
Kol'tsov, A. V.
Kurakin, V. G.
Subbotin, G. G.
Tamm, E. I.
Kurakin, P. V.

¹P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
²M. V. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Atomic Energy 93(6):p 984-987, December 2002.

Automation of measurements on and control of an electron synchrotron is discussed. The history of the development and brief description of the accelerator are presented; the computer monitoring and control are discussed in detail; the basic devices forming the interface between the computer and physical sensors and the control systems are listed. The design is based on the concept of a flexible user interface, making it possible to separate the program development stages and the automation stage itself. This concept is relatively weakly tied to a specific object of control and therefore it is applicable to a wide class of physical systems.