Control Systems: an Application to a High Energy Physics Experiment (COMPASS)
This work provides a practical control system solution for a specific high-energy physics experiment, but it is an incremental application of existing methods.
The paper presents the Detector Control System (DCS) for the COMPASS experiment at CERN, addressing the challenge of monitoring and controlling a complex, flexible, long-running experiment using standardized industrial solutions, with custom developments where necessary.
The Detector Control System (DCS) of the COMPASS experiment at CERN is presented. The experiment has a high level of complexity and flexibility and a long time of operation, that constitute a challenge for its full monitorisation and control. A strategy to use a limited number of standardised, cost-effective, industrial solutions of hardware and software was pursued. When such solutions were not available or could not be used, customised solutions were developed.