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@inproceedings{smith:icalepcs2023-tupdp110,
author = {P.T. Smith and A. Greer and D.J.N. McCubbin and B.A. Roberts and M. Roberts and P.B. Taylor},
title = {{Control System Design of the CHIMERA Fusion Test Facility}},
% booktitle = {Proc. ICALEPCS'23},
booktitle = {Proc. 19th Int. Conf. Accel. Large Exp. Phys. Control Syst. (ICALEPCS'23)},
eventdate = {2023-10-09/2023-10-13},
pages = {827--831},
paper = {TUPDP110},
language = {english},
keywords = {controls, EPICS, experiment, PLC, SCADA},
venue = {Cape Town, South Africa},
series = {International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems},
number = {19},
publisher = {JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland},
month = {02},
year = {2024},
issn = {2226-0358},
isbn = {978-3-95450-238-7},
doi = {10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP110},
url = {https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/tupdp110.pdf},
abstract = {{CHIMERA is an experimental nuclear fusion test facility which aims to simulate the intense magnetic fields and temperature gradients found within a tokamak fusion reactor. The control system at CHIMERA is based on EPICS and will have approximately 30 input/output controllers (IOCs) when it comes online in 2024. It will make heavy use of CSS Phoebus for its user interface, sequencer and alarm system. CHIMERA will use EPICS Archiver Appliance for data archiving and EPICS areaDetector to acquire high speed data which is stored in the HDF5 format. The control philosophy at CHIMERA emphasises PLC based control logic using mostly Siemens S7-1500 PLCs and using OPCUA to communicate with EPICS. EPICS AUTOSAVE is used both for manually setting lists of process variables (PVs) and for automatic restoration of PVs if an IOC must be restarted.}},
}