Controls-related R&D options

Etienne CARLIER18th ABTEF meeting

27-06-2014

Outline

• The challenge• Possible R&D options• Summary

Just scaling does not work…

108 MKDs and 200 m TCDQ vs.

availability/reliability

W. Bartmann – 2014 TE-ABT Group Meeting

PLCSIEMENS

Ethernet

PROFIBUS-DP / PROFINET

DecentralisedI/O

DeportedI/O

Local ControlTP

Application

EquipmentServerLinux

VME Linux

CompactPCILinux

LoggingAlarmFixed Display

Local ControlWindows

PXILabRT

ModulesSCSS

FIPS KITS FASS

Generic ABT Control Architecture

SCSS : State control & Surveillance SystemKITS : Kicker Timing SoftwareFASS : Fast Acquisition Surveillance SystemFIPS : Fast Interlocking & Protection System

Modules Modules

The Challenge(Simple Electronics & Controls view)

• Increase of number of equipment– Space

• Increase of equipment performance– Technology

• Increase of equipment complexity– Integration

• Increase of flexibility / adaptability– Modularity

• Increase of availability– Reliability

Redundancy

• Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety– Double and/or triple redundancy– Reconfigurable and/or degraded mode operation

• Failure mode– Monitoring, Monitoring, Monitoring

• Should be included at all levels in system design from the beginning– Pulse generator– Power electronic– Control

Modularity

• Power triggering– From switch/application specific triggering system to generic

& modular system (current/voltage)– Redundancy

• Power supplies– From generic capacitor charger to modular charger– Redundancy

• Hardware object– “Open” system– Same hardware with different functionalities through

different embedded software

Integration

• Reduction – Rack space / hardware size– Cabling

• Distributed control– Actuators/sensors “as close as” possible to pulsed generators...

i.e. up to embedded inside individual power component– Distributed “intelligence”

• Constraints– Space– Fieldbuses– Rad-hard electronics– Powering

EMC

• Integration– Electronic inside pulsed generators / power components– Control and power electronic in same “module”... in same PCB

• Reduction of analog coupling– Common Bonding Network– Radiated– Conducted

• Emission and Immunity– Characterization– Measure– Test

Software

• Human Machine Interface– Integrated– Easy access to data to experts– Full diagnostic in case of failure– Automated fault identification sequences

• From “Post Operational Check” to “Real-Time Check”– Slow degradation detection– Transient / instabilities detection– Intelligent system to correlate analysis

Technology

• Signal acquisition– More bits.... at higher sampling rate. Challenging!– Form-factor.... Future a “PC” based hardware – Hardware and software synchronization in distributed system

• Signal analysis – Offline– Embedded

• Pulse to pulse regulation– Fuzzy logic– Neural network

Summary

• “Embedded” redundancy• In-depth pulse generator, power electronics

and equipment controls integration• Improve EMC integration• Modularity... mainly in power electronic • Real-time distributed low level control• Expert system for feedback loop, failure

analysis...