Exploring MDSplus data-acquisition software and custom devices

Journal Article · Sat Feb 29 04:00:00 EST 2020 · Fusion Engineering and Design

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2020.111534· OSTI ID:1802359

Santoro, Fernando ^[1]; Stillerman, Joshua ^[2]; Lane-Walsh, Stephen ^[2]; Fredian, Thomas ^[2]

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1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); OSTI
2. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

MDSplus is a software tool designed for data acquisition, storage, and analysis of complex scientific experiments. Over the years, MDSplus has primarily been used for data management for fusion experiments. This paper demonstrates that MDSplus can be used for a much wider variety of systems and experiments. We present a step-by-step tutorial describing how to create a simple experiment, manage the data, and analyze it using MDSplus and Python. To this end, a custom example device was developed to be used as the data source. This device was built on an open-source electronic hardware platform, and it consists of a microcontroller and two sensors. Finally, we read data from these sensors, store it in MDSplus, and use JupyterLab to visualize and process it.

• Research Organization: Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• Grant/Contract Number: SC0012470
• OSTI ID: 1802359
• Alternate ID(s): OSTI ID: 1602295
• Journal Information: Fusion Engineering and Design, Journal Name: Fusion Engineering and Design Journal Issue: C Vol. 155; ISSN 0920-3796
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
MDSplus
Python
custom devices
data acquisition
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software
visualization