Control systems

Detector Safety System (DSS) (no action available for an operator)

Display of CERN Level 3 alarms and protection of NA62 hardware

Detector Control System (DCS)

Detector monitoring and operation

External Control Systems(no action available for an operator)

• Vacuum
• Gas (CEDAR/KTAG, Straw Tracker, RICH)
• GTK cooling plant

You should start your shift from inspection of detector state

with use of all control systems
General DCS hardware structure
What is FSM (Final State Machine) and why we need it?
DCS (and Run Control) can be operated without FSM
(direct information and command propagation)

User Interface

SCADA data server

WinCC OA

Commands HW information
Front end computer

OPC server

CAEN channel
FW
Final State Machine (FSM) allows modelling of HW behavior and translate it to “states”

User Interface
On
On Inconsistent
Off
SCADA data server
FSM model Off Inconsistent
WinCC OA Error
Unknown
Commands HW information
Ramping
Front end computer
Locked
OPC server

CAEN channel
FW
 FSM facilitates hierarchical state propagation and group commanding

FSM model of
subsystem

Commands
States

SCADA data server SCADA data server SCADA data server

FSM FSM FSM
WinCC OA model WinCC OA model WinCC OA model

Front end computer Front end computer Front end computer

OPC server OPC server OPC server

CAEN channel CAEN channel CAEN channel

FW FW FW
DCS color scheme
Color Meaning What does it mean?
Green No error and ON Ideal color for data taking
Blue No error and OFF Why it is OFF when we are taking
data?
Red By default the red color of a state Do your best to convert it to Green or
or an alarm means harmful Blue. Call expert if you can’t do it
condition for data quality yourself.

Yellow warning or transition Why it is ramping endlessly?

Purple State is unknown (usually No
because of absence of Are we receiving
data from this
Switch ON HW,
Call expert
communication with detector?
hardware) Yes

No Investigate
Is the hardware network,
ping-able? Call expert

Yes
Call DCS expert
Grey FSM is not running It is uncomfortable, but not harmful
for data taking. Call DCS expert