Conveners
Beamline Control Systems 1: Beamline Control Systems
- Linus Pithan (DESY)
Beamline Control Systems 1: Beamline Control Systems 1
- Vincent Hardion (MAX IV Laboratory)
Beamline Control Systems 1: Beamline Control Systems 1
- Steffen Hauf (European XFEL)
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) is in the midst of an upgrade project that includes the replacement of the entire storage ring with a ring based on a multi-bend achromat lattice design. This new storage ring will increase the APS’s brightness by factors of 500, depending on x-ray energy, and make the APS the brightest hard x-ray synchrotron source in the...
With around 800 devices acting on more than 8km of beam lines, the CERN fixed target experimental areas have a dedicated beam line control system used by a few CERN experts and individuals from more than 140 groups of visiting users to perform experiments. In late 2021, an initiative was triggered to try to unify the accelerator and beam line controls, with the aim of containing maintenance...
The Swiss Light Source (SLS) is undergoing a significant hardware upgrade with the SLS 2.0 program, presenting an opportunity to address software challenges, particularly in beamline and experiment control systems. With official endorsement for deployment at the SLS, the new Beamline and Experiment Control system (BEC) provides a unified solution for beamlines, overcoming past challenges of...
At Diamond Light Source, several Macromolecular Crystallography (MX) beamlines focus on, or include, completely automated data collection. This is used primarily for high throughput collection, which has historically meant several hundred samples per day. Diamond is building its next generation, service-based, data acquisition platform Athena using NSLS-II’s Bluesky experiment orchestration...
SIRIUS is a 4th generation synchrotron light source facility that was designed, built and is operated by the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS/CNPEM). Currently, SIRIUS has 6 fully operational beamlines and other 8 beamlines in technical commissioning, scientific commissioning or installation phases.
The distributed control system is based on EPICS and the software solutions...
Karabo is the control and data processing framework operating the instruments and photon beam-lines at the European XFEL. Its event driven nature is enabled by a central message broker that distributes control information to subscribed software processes.
Originally, Karabo was developed using the Java Messaging System (JMS) broker, and the OpenMQc library to interface it from C++ and Python....
BEC (Beamline Experiments Control) is a new Python-based experiment control software currently developed within the Paul-Scherrer Institute (PSI). It will be available to Swiss Light Source (SLS) users starting from January 2025 after the SLS 2.0 upgrade program. BEC provides services dealing with every aspect of a modern beamline control software.
Blissdata is a Python library developed at...
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory is at the forefront of facilitating groundbreaking scientific research by providing state-of-the-art X-ray capabilities. Recognizing the critical role of software in maximizing the scientific output of user facilities, APS has embarked on a strategic deployment of Bluesky, a comprehensive software framework designed for data...
The learning curve for beamline control systems is often challenging due to the use of command line controls, or various custom made GUIs. Access to beamlines is limited and time constrained, so learning command line controls or scripts takes up valuable time that could be used for the experiment.
This talk focuses on the creation of a web browser application that acts as a beamline...
Bluesky facilities have been using ophyd as a comprhensive hardware abstraction layer for step scanning use cases but legacy constraints have made it difficult to move towards flyscanning. We present an update on the status of ophyd-async (formerly ophyd v2), which has now seen action in user experiments at both Diamond and NSLS-II to perform hardware triggered measurements.
Ophyd-async...
Over a decade ago, Sardana [1] integrated generic continuous scans [2], initially meeting only basic requirements. More complex scenarios, were implemented by migrating generic logic into plugins, often relying on hooks or ad-hoc solutions. In the past year, SOLARIS Synchrotron and the Sardana Community co-hosted a collaborative continuous scans workshop [3] with participation from similar...
