The Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System architecture: Past, present, and future

Conference · Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:10193541

Dalesio, L R; Hill, J O ^[1]; Kraimer, M ^[2]; Lewis, S ^[3]; Murray, D; Hunt, S ^[4]; Claussen, M ^[5]; Watson, W ^[6]; Dalesio, J ^[7]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
2. Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
3. Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)
4. Superconducting Super Collider Lab., Dallas, TX (United States)
5. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
6. Southeastern Universities Research Association, Inc., Newport News, VA (United States). Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
7. Tate Integrated Systems (United States)

The Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS), has been used at a number of sites for performing data acquisition, supervisory control, closed-loop control, sequential control, and operational optimization. The EPICS architecture was originally developed by a group with diverse backgrounds in physics and industrial control. The current architecture represents one instance of the ``standard model.`` It provides distributed processing and communication from any LAN device to the front end controllers. This paper will present the genealogy, current architecture, performance envelope, current installations, and planned extensions for requirements not met by the current architecture.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36; AC35-89ER40486; W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 10193541
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-93-3640; CONF-931023-6; ON: DE94002639; TRN: 93:025700
• Resource Relation: Conference: ICALEPCS`93: International conference on accelerators and large experimental physics control systems,Berlin (Germany),18-22 Oct 1993; Other Information: PBD: [1993]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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