Speaker
Hiteshkumar Dhola
(Power Supply Group)
Description
A Dual output (27kV & 15kV), 3MW High Voltage Power Supply (ICHVPS) has been installed and integrated with a Diacrode based RF source to be used for ICRF system. The ICHVPS Controller is based on LabVIEW Real-time PXI controller, which supports all control and monitoring operations of the PSM based power supply. The controller supports all essential features like, fast dynamics, low ripple and protection for source and loads.
EPICS (Experimental Physics and Industrial Control Systems) is an open source software widely accepted in scientific community as supervisory distributed control system including CODAC (Control, Data Access and Communication) for ITER. However interface with LabVIEW RT systems is not fully matured yet.
Evolving requirements of interface with platforms like EPICS with ICHVPS control has been assessed and implemented for monitoring purpose. A test case was implemented to identify compatibility, feasibility, consistency and performance of EPICS Input Output Controller (IOCs) server implemented in Real-time controller. This paper discusses integration of EPICS IOCs and LabVIEW based Real-time Controller along with some analysis on limitations imposed by such integration.
Co-authors
Amitkumar Pate
(Power Supply Group, ITER-India, Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar, India)
Aruna Thakar
(Power Supply Group, ITER-India, Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar, India)
Darshit Pandya
(LDRP, Gandhinagar, India)
Hiteshkumar Dhola
(Power Supply Group, ITER-India, Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar, India)
Narindar Pal Singh
(Power Supply Group, ITER-India, Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar, India)
Rasesh Dave
(Power Supply Group, ITER-India, Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar, India)
Ujjwal Baruah
(Power Supply Group, ITER-India, Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar, India)
