ICALEPCS2023 - List of Authors (Ruiz Rodriguez, M.)

Paper	Title	Page
TUMBCMO27	EPICS IOC Integration with Rexroth Controller for a T-Zero Chopper	429
	B.K. Krishna, M. Ruiz Rodriguez ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
	A neutron chopper is not typically used as a filter, but rather as a way to modulate a beam of neutrons to select a certain energy range or to enable time-of-flight measurements. T-Zero neutron choppers have been incorporated into several beamlines at SNS and are operated via a Rexroth controller. However, the current OPC is only compatible with Windows XP, which has led to the continued use of an XP machine to run both the Indradrive (Rexroth interface) and EPICS IOC. This setup has caused issues with integrating with our Data Acquisition server and requires separate maintenance. As a result, for a new beamline project, we opted to switch to the Rexroth XM22 controller with T-Zero chopper, which allows for the use of drivers provided by Rexroth in various programming languages. This paper will detail the XM22 controller drivers and explain how to utilize them to read PLC parameters from the controller into the EPICS application and its Phoebus/CSS interface.
	Slides TUMBCMO27 [0.389 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUMBCMO27
About •	Received ※ 08 October 2023 — Revised ※ 12 December 2023 — Accepted ※ 15 December 2023 — Issued ※ 19 December 2023
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EPICS IOC Integration with Rexroth Controller for a T-Zero Chopper

429

B.K. Krishna, M. Ruiz Rodriguez
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

A neutron chopper is not typically used as a filter, but rather as a way to modulate a beam of neutrons to select a certain energy range or to enable time-of-flight measurements. T-Zero neutron choppers have been incorporated into several beamlines at SNS and are operated via a Rexroth controller. However, the current OPC is only compatible with Windows XP, which has led to the continued use of an XP machine to run both the Indradrive (Rexroth interface) and EPICS IOC. This setup has caused issues with integrating with our Data Acquisition server and requires separate maintenance. As a result, for a new beamline project, we opted to switch to the Rexroth XM22 controller with T-Zero chopper, which allows for the use of drivers provided by Rexroth in various programming languages. This paper will detail the XM22 controller drivers and explain how to utilize them to read PLC parameters from the controller into the EPICS application and its Phoebus/CSS interface.

Slides TUMBCMO27 [0.389 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUMBCMO27

About •

Received ※ 08 October 2023 — Revised ※ 12 December 2023 — Accepted ※ 15 December 2023 — Issued ※ 19 December 2023

Cite •

reference for this paper using ※ BibTeX, ※ LaTeX, ※ Text/Word, ※ RIS, ※ EndNote (xml)