Accelerator Complex Controls Renovation Workshop, LHC excluded

Beam Transfer

Etienne CARLIER on behalf of the AB/BT Group

Thanks to Jan BORBURGH, Tony FOWLER and Jan SCHIPPER

Outline

• Motivation• Strategy• Initial Conditions• Work Packages• Concerns and Issues• Summary

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PSB

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LINACs

CTF3

LEIR

ISOLDEEast Hall

cvKicker

Electro-static septa

Electro-magnetic septa

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TI 2

TI 8

Kicker

Electro-static septa

Electro-magnetic septa

Extraction Protection devices

LHCSPS

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Motivation

• Clear indication of – AB/CO FEC performance limitation (RIO2) for BT equipment controls,– Decrease of reliability (end of bath curve) for equipment level hardware

under BT or CO responsibility.

• Good opportunity for – Eradication of obsolete of hardware,– Regain of expertise in low-level equipment controls (hardware &

software) and in integration of equipment controls in accelerator controls,

– Clarification of equipment controls responsibility between groups,– Homogenization of controls solutions (hardware & Software) within the

BT group.

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Strategy

• Renovation strategy for consolidation of BT equipment controls will be based on the responsibility sharing agreements between CO and equipment groups defined in the CO3 (so called “co-operative model”).

• Clear separation between the renovation of – “Accelerator Complex Controls” CO responsibility,– “Equipment low-level controls” BT responsibility.

• Renovation based 3 independent phases– Phase1: Identification with OP of missing operational functionality for the

control of BT equipment,– Phase2: Renovation of CO controls infrastructure and update to FESA of GM

classes on the basis of actual low-level hardware,– Phase3: Consolidation of low level hardware.

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Initial Conditions

Front-End Hardware

New FEC[CPU + OS]

Front-EndTiming

CTRx + LTIM

Front-End Software

FESA 2.10

Equipment Level Control

ConsolidationStatus

PS–Complex – Kickers 30% 20% 40% 50%

PS–Complex – Septa 10% 10% 10%

SPS – Kickers 10% 100% 100% 70%

SPS – Septa 50% 100% 100%

• FEC hardware situation– 21 VME – 18 RIO2 & 4 RIO3– 3 PC

• Migration to FESA 2.10 started• SL-EQUIP eradicated• MACSy eradicated• GM in progress

• Low-level control consolidation ongoing

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Work Packages

• Two different categories of work packages:– Category 1: Work packages induced by the “Accelerator Complex Controls

Renovation”,– Category 2: Work packages where renovation of equipment level controls

has no link with “Accelerator Complex Controls Renovation” or is planned to be done in accordance with “co-operative model”.

• For Category 1 work packages, no resources, manpower & budget, actually planned within BT. Some manpower resources can be retrieved from exploitation.

• For Category 2 work packages, resources, manpower & budget (including additional CO support) are planned within BT.

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Work PackagesCategory 1

Status Description Manpower

[FTE]

Cost

[kCHF]Draft In-source from AB/CO and consolidate PS-Complex

septa motion and slow control4 125

Draft In-source from AB/PO and consolidate PS-Complex electrostatic septa HV generator control

1 20

Draft Rationalise FECs used for control PS-Complex Septa system

0.5 10

Draft Migrate of GM classes to FESA for PS-Complex septa system

1.5 0

Draft Migrate from LynxOS to LINUX of existing FESA classes and FEC low level software

3 0

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Planning to be in tune with CO

Work PackagesCategory 2

Status Description Manpower

[FTE]

Cost

[kCHF]Active Migrate GM classes to FESA for PS-Complex kicker

system3 0

Active Consolidate PS-Complex kicker oil systems 4 150*Active Consolidate SPS LSS2 extraction electronics (end 2009) 4 300Active Consolidate AD Horn pulser electronics (Phase 1) 1.5 75

Planned Provide electronics for new SPS MKDV generators 4 250*Draft Consolidate SPS Kicker Timing Systems 2 150

* : Electronics & Controls part

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Open Issues / Concerns

• Responsibility clarification for – PS Complex Electro-static septa control (shared for the moment between AB/PO,

AB/CO & AB/BT),– Implementation of the “co-operative model” for slow & fast timing for kicker systems

across the injector chain.– Equipment control through generic classes.

• FEC sharing between different equipment group• Definition of FESA standard properties• Low-level controls homogeneity across the complete accelerator

complex (LHC included)– Same equipment level hardware and software used on 2 different platforms with 2

different operating systems,– Resources needed at equipment group level to maintain two different environments.

• OASIS

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Summary

• BT will follow the “Accelerator Complex Controls Renovation” as set up by the CO group.

• Expertise and manpower (from exploitation) available to perform the migration of GM classes to FESA.

• Ready to in-source some specific control functionalities only used by BT, but resources (funding and manpower) to be found.

• Some specific BT “non-blocking” technical issues still to be clarified with CO.

• Some concerns about resources needed to maintain a homogeneity at the low level across the complete accelerator chain.

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