1. GOVERNMENT OF ROMANIA Structural Instruments 2007-2013 Sectoral Operational Programme „Increase of Economic Competitiveness” “Investments for Your Future” Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) - Phase II Project co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund EUROPEAN UNION Control system prototype for laser-driven experiments at ELI-NP Dragos Dumitrescu, on behalf of the ELI-NP team

2. Outline Introduction Optical setup TANGO development Other services Conclusions Acknowledgements 2/36

3. TANGO @ ELI-NP M. Cernaianu et al., Romanian Reports in Physics, Vol. 68,Supplement, P. S349 – S444, 2016

4. Goals Control and command of equipment in a laser optical setup Proof-of-concept for further development in laser driven experiments As much automation as possible Setup flexibility, yet stability Standardized control interfaces Diverse computing environment Multiple programming languages Abstraction layer on top of existing hardware Reliable solutions High performance 4/36

5. Goals (2) Unified data archiving solutions A standard means for configuring acquisition Scalable means towards data archiving Meaningful and user-friendly HMIs and Supervision software Handling access control Monitoring network infrastructure Resource monitoring for servers and network equipment Learning to operate in a TANGO infrastructure Core services TANGO devices – Motors, CCDs et.al. Extra services – Starter, Archiving 5/36

6. Proposed solution Using TANGO as the middleware for hardware device integration Other services – User Accounting, Security, Synchronization et.al Putting them all together 6/36

7. Outline Introduction Optical setup TANGO development Other services Conclusions Acknowledgements 7/36

8. Data acquisition and archiving Scalable solution (databases, common timestamp with NTP server) Optimizing resource consumption Addressing network security Control system perspective Server development for the devices Virtual instrumentation GUI design In progress Envisaged Laser driven experiments

9. Optical setup 9/36  Main Goals  Optical perspective : how to focus a laser on a target ? (using a parabolic mirror)  Control system perspective

10. Optical setup (2) Laser setup – Control system perspective Goal n.1 : integrate following devices in TANGO

11. Outline Introduction Optical setup TANGO development Other services Conclusions Acknowledgements 11/36

12. Directions of development TANGO device integration Creating device servers for HW equipment Or integrating the existing ones UI development Functionality & ease-of-access vs. looks Infrastructure enhancements Finding solutions towards data archiving Integrating external services Security Exporting data outside the experimental environment 12/36

13. Current progress (1) CCD camera – Basler devices & Webcam devices: Using the LIMA Tango Device Server LabView Client – adapted from existing application LIMA CCDs Device Server for Generic Windows DirectShow Camera Taurus Python Client Standa Stepper Motor Device Server C++ Device Server - Implemented LabView client - Implemented Stanford DG645 delay generator Device Server C++ Device Server – Existing implementation Gentec Maestro Energy Meter Device Server C++ Device Server Implemented – Ethernet interface 13/36

14. Current progress (2) Spectrometer OceanOptics HR4000 Implemented in Java from existing C++ implementation Created Comete client ThorLabs CLD1010 (Laser Diode controller) Device Server C++ Device Server Implemented Comete Java Client Implemented Generic Serial Command Library with input and output sanitization Sanitize serial commands inputs and outputs based on specifications in Excel file Implemented and tested with the Gentec EnergyMeter Hexapode – PI hexapode & controller TANGO device server deployed starting from existing implementation 14/4

15. Stepper motor client 15/36

16. Spectrometer client 16/36

17. Lima CCDs clients 17/36 Python application LabView application

18. Outline Introduction Optical setup TANGO development Other services Conclusions Acknowledgements 18/36

19. Services DatabaseDS as a Windows service on TANGO_HOST Installed Starter as a Windows Service on all TANGO machines Remote controlling and monitoring the device servers Precompiled Windows executables for Tango Device Servers and Clients Tested for Windows 7 x64 Shared folders containing executables Uniform folder hierarchy 19/36

20. External services NTP Time Synchronization Server Configured the archiving Tango services Databases + TDB & HDB Mambo Controlled access to all PCs using Active Directory Directory Services TANGO Access Control deployed 20/36

21. Outline Introduction Optical setup TANGO development Other services Conclusions Acknowledgements 21/36

22. Current progress Integrated several devices to be used in further development Energy-meter, laser diode controller, stepper motors et.al. Designing User Interfaces Understanding some of the users’ needs during an experiment First steps towards a fully-integrated infrastructure Deploying services and catering for needs in terms of security, performance, monitoring, supervision et.al. 22/36

23. Further steps More thorough testing of solutions Documentation enhancements More inputs from users about GUI functionality Higher level of integration to be achieved Higher levels of automation to be operated 23/36

24. Outline Introduction Optical setup TANGO development Other services Conclusions Acknowledgements 24/36

25. Acknowledgements Mihail Octavian Cernaianu – Laser Experiments Team Bertrand de Boisdeffre – Laser Team Dragos Popescu – Laser Experiments Team Petru Ghenuche – Laser Experiments Team Ioan Dancus – Laser Team Emmanuel Lalla – Laser Experiments Team Florin Negoita – Laser Experiments Team Nicolae Marinica – Laser Team 25/36