Gerhard Raupp et al. : Experiment Management System for the ASDEX Upgrade Tokamak

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Max-Planck-Institut für PlasmaphysikEuratom
Association
Experiment Management System for ASDEX
Upgrade Gerhard Raupp, G. Neu, R. Cole, K.
Lüddecke W. Treutterer, T. Vijverberg, D.
Zasche, T. Zehetbauer and ASDEX Upgrade
Team UCS Unlimited Computer Systems, Iffeldorf,
Germany

• Contents
• Tokamak operation needs
• Operation Sequencing
• Discharge Information Management
• Conclusions

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ASDEX Upgrade a mid-size Tokamak
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Actuators Overview
field coils lt-gt plasma magnetics ms heating
fuelling lt-gt plasma kinetics 10ms
Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating 2 MW _at_ 140
GHz
Pellet Centrifuge 240 - 1200 m/s rep. Rate 80 Hz
Neutral Beam Injection 20 MW _at_ 70-100 kV NBCD
by tang. beams
Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating 8 MW _at_ 30-60
MHz
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Machine control system
configures actuators and monitors machine
components
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Diagnostics Overview
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Diagnostics system
measures plasma quantities
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Discharge Control Overview
LAN
discharge control
machine control
data acquisition
actuators
sensors
ASDEX Upgrade
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Distributed r-t Discharge Control
AUG
actuators
sensors
device
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r-t Plasma Control Software
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Experiment Management Overview
LAN
discharge control
machine control
data acquisition
r-t physics net
r-t time
r-t protection
actuators
sensors
ASDEX Upgrade
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Experiment Management Structure
control
info
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Operation Sequencing (Standard Discharge Cycle)
phys.refs
ctrl.release/config
act.recipes
op. modes -gt op. phases
sens.charact.
OpGUI
pulse record
Configsrv gtinfo manag.
RunCtrlsrv gtsequence mgm
Archv srv
operation services
rtVis GUI
Logsrv
ServMstr
Signalsrv
real-time services
discharge control
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Configuration Server Information Management

• knowledge to
• read parse process configuration files
• fill unresolved references to parameters or
  files
• via a dynamic map of constants and functions
  (recursive)

-gt Poster G.Neu Configuration Server ....
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Conclusions
XM is the central platform to operate ASDEX
Upgrade and automate experiment execution.
It -defines operation methods of the machine
-provides acces methods to resource information
and monitors resources -provides central
services for configuration, logging,
protocolling, and archiving -provides user
interfaces for operators / sys.engineers /
exp.leaders The separation of operation control
flow from discharge information handling helped
to design a method to configure the highly
flexible system in a transparent way.
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