Integrated control system for the beam commissioning of the PEFP 100-MeV proton accelerator

Abstract

The Proton Engineering Frontier Project (PEFP) has developed an integrated control system for beam commissioning of its 100-MeV proton linear accelerator. The final goal of the PEFP control system for beam commissioning is to develop a network of attached and distributed control systems. The PEFP control system was designed into the basic control structure of three groups including the central control system, the local control system, and the console system. The central control system is responsible for the timing synchronization and interlock. The local control system is responsible for the distributed control system for several linac components, such as the vacuum, power supply, data acquisition, RF, and so on. The console system is responsible for the user interface as a control system client. In order to implement the control system, we have adopted an Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) software framework as the standard development tool. The EPICS is based on a distributed architecture that provides several solutions, such as independent programming tools on several hardware and operating-system platforms. The Input Output Controllers (IOCs) of the PEFP control system have been tested with a wide variety of hardware solutions from a personal computer to embedded devices. In this paper, we will present the details of the integrated control system for beam commissioning of the PEFP 100-MeV proton linac.