Articolo in rivista, 2013, ENG, 10.1109/TNS.2013.2281264

Prototyping Control and Data Acquisition for the ITER Neutral Beam Test Facility

Adriano Luchetta; Gabriele Manduchi; Cesare Taliercio; Anton Soppelsa; Francesco Paolucci; Filippo Sartori; Paolo Barbato; Mauro Breda; Roberto Capobianco; Federico Molon; Modesto Moressa; Sandro Polato; Paola Simionato; Enrico Zampiva

1-4,7-14 : Consorzio RFX, 35127 Padova Italy / 5,6 : Fusion for Energy, 08019 Barcelona Spain.

The ITER Neutral Beam Test Facility will be the project's R&D facility for heating neutral beam injectors (HNB) for fusion research operating with H/D negative ions. Its mission is to develop technology to build the HNB prototype injector meeting the stringent HNB requirements (16.5 MW injection power, $-$ 1 MeV acceleration energy, 40 A ion current and one hour continuous operation). Two test-beds will be built in sequence in the facility: first SPIDER, the ion source test-bed, to optimize the negative ion source performance, second MITICA, the actual prototype injector, to optimize ion beam acceleration and neutralization. The SPIDER control and data acquisition system is under design. To validate the main architectural choices, a system prototype has been assembled and performance tests have been executed to assess the prototype's capability to meet the control and data acquisition system requirements. The prototype is based on open-source software frameworks running under Linux. EPICS is the slow control engine, MDSplus is the data handler and MARTe is the fast control manager. The prototype addresses low and high-frequency data acquisition, 10 kS/s and 10 MS/s respectively, camera image acquisition, data archiving, data streaming, data retrieval and visualization, real time fast control with 100 control cycle and supervisory control.

IEEE transactions on nuclear science 60 (5), pp. 3454–3460

Keywords

ITER, neutral beam injector, neutral beam test facility

CNR authors

Capobianco Roberto, Taliercio Cesare, Luchetta Adriano Francesco, Polato Sandro, Simionato Paola, Zampiva Enrico, Barbato Paolo, Manduchi Gabriele, Moressa Modesto

CNR institutes

IGI – Istituto gas ionizzati

ID: 277899

Year: 2013

Type: Articolo in rivista

Creation: 2014-02-12 18:00:52.000

Last update: 2022-04-11 15:55:17.000

External IDs

CNR OAI-PMH: oai:it.cnr:prodotti:277899

DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2013.2281264

ISI Web of Science (WOS): 000325827700004

Scopus: 2-s2.0-84885948455