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Advanced Control System for Danfysik
Date: 14 April 2011
Heason Technology is awarded advanced control system order with synchrotron beamline specialists Danfysik
Horsham based Heason Technology has been
awarded a contract by the Danish particle accelerator equipment
manufacturer Danfysik to supply a control system and software
package for micropositioning magnetic array insertion devices for
the next generation NSLS-II National Synchrotron Light Source at
the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, USA which is
currently under construction and due for completion in 2015.
The project involves the supply of six complete EPICS based control
systems, with each controller capable of 4 axis synchronised motion
control, interfacing with the Danfysik built advanced permanent
insertion devices which are known as Moveable Gap Damping Wigglers.
Insertion devices are used to generate synchrotron radiation and
the damping wigglers reduce the beam emittance so as to ensure the
optimum luminosity as well as provide a broadband, high intensity
source of x-ray radiation. The new Brookhaven electron storage
facility will have a beam intensity that is some 10,000 times
larger than its predecessor and one important and topical area of
science that will be explored is to investigate the potential for
clean, affordable energy.
Heason Technology will undertake the design, production and
development of the control system hardware and software with
assembly and local testing at their facility in Horsham as well as
on-site installation and test in Denmark during 2012. The scope of
supply includes an I/O controller for general purpose machine
interfacing, temperature and other system critical sensors along
with a Delta Tau Geo Brick motion controller with stepper motor
drives and additional I/O for high resolution encoders, motor
brakes and limit switches for 4-axis motion control. A GUI will
provide user-level screens for the operational use of the Wiggler
as well as lower-level engineering control and status screens for
testing, fault-finding, calibration and commissioning.
Heason Technology's expertise in this area of control system
technology stems from several years of experience in synchrotron
engineering with customers including Diamond Light Source in the
UK, CERN in Switzerland and Synchrotron Soleil in France.
The Brookhaven NSLS-II facility will eventually accommodate at
least 58 beamlines, using 27 straight sections for insertion-device
sources and 31 bending-magnet wiggler sources, with additional
beamlines possible through canted insertion devices and multiple
branches.