Update on migration to EPICS at the ISIS accelerators

TUPD047
23 Sept 2025, 16:00
1h 30m
Palmer House Hilton Chicago

Palmer House Hilton Chicago

17 East Monroe Street Chicago, IL 60603, United States of America
Poster Presentation MC02: Control System Upgrades in Existing Facilities TUPD Posters

Speaker

Dr Ivan Finch (Science and Technology Facilities Council)

Description

The ISIS Neutron and Muon Facility accelerators are migrating to an EPICS control system. The tools developed to run two control systems in parallel and to automate the migration of hardware and user interfaces to EPICS have been previously presented. We now detail our emerging EPICS setup. Hardware interfaces are implemented as a mixture of conventional EPICS IOCs, in-house developed equivalents in Python, and bridged through our old control system. Our user interfaces are primarily the Phoebus stack but web interfaces in Python are being explored, particularly to support machine learning purposes such as automated optimisation and anomaly detection. We present issues which may arise at any site in transition, such as handling continuity of data archiving

Author

Dr Ivan Finch (Science and Technology Facilities Council)

Co-authors

Ajit Kurup (Imperial College London) Aqeel AlShafei (Science and Technology Facilities Council) Dr Gareth Howells (Science and Technology Facilities Council) Dr Juan Fernandez Hernando (Science and Technology Facilities Council) Ms Kathryn Baker (Science and Technology Facilities Council) Mateusz Leputa (ISIS Neutron and Muon Source) Mr Mihnea Romanovschi (Science and Technology Facilities Council) Mr Paul Ray (Science and Technology Facilities Council)

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