Cyber Framework for Steering and Measurements Collection Over Instrument-Computing Ecosystems

Conference · Thu Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 2023

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/SMARTCOMP58114.2023.00046· OSTI ID:2007729

Al Najjar, Anees ^[1]; Rao, Nageswara ^[1]; Sankaran, Ramanan ^[1]; Zandi, Helia ^[1]; Mukherjee, Debangshu ^[1]; Ziatdinov, Maxim ^[1]; Bridges, Craig A. ^[1]

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1. ORNL

We propose a framework to develop cyber solutions to support the remote steering of science instruments and measurements collection over instrument-computing ecosystems. It is based on provisioning separate data and control connections at the network level, and developing software modules consisting of Python wrappers for instrument commands and Pyro server-client codes that make them available across the ecosystem network. We demonstrate automated measurement transfers and remote steering operations in a microscopy use case for materials research over an ecosystem of Nion microscopes and computing platforms connected over site networks. The proposed framework is currently under further refinement and being adopted to science workflows with automated remote experiments steering for autonomous chemistry laboratories and smart energy grid simulations.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) (SC-21)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 2007729
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English