Nuclear instrumentation and measurement: a review based on the ANIMMA conferences

M Giot, L Vermeeren, A Lyoussi… - EPJ N-Nuclear …, 2017 - hal.science
The ANIMMA conferences offer a unique opportunity to discover research carried out in all
fields of nuclear measurements and instrumentation with applications extending from …

Engineering design for the magnetic diagnostics of Wendelstein 7-X

M Endler, B Brucker, V Bykov, A Cardella… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The magnetic diagnostics foreseen for the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator are
diamagnetic loops to measure the plasma energy, Rogowski coils to measure the toroidal …

ITER fast plant system controller prototype based on ATCA platform

B Gonçalves, J Sousa, BB Carvalho, A Batista… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2012 - Elsevier
The ITER fast plan system controllers (FPSC) are based on embedded technologies. The
FPSCs [1] will be devoted to data acquisition tasks (sampling rates> 1kSPS) and control …

FPGA remote update for nuclear environments

A Fernandes, RC Pereira, J Sousa… - … on Nuclear Science, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years there has been a growing interest to use reconfigurable modules, based on
field-programmable gate array (FPGA) devices, in nuclear environments. One of the …

Prototype real-time ATCA-based LLRF control system

D Makowski, W Koprek, T Jezynski… - … on Nuclear Science, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The linear accelerators employed to drive Free Electron Lasers (FELs), such as the X-ray
Free Electron Laser (XFEL) currently being built in Hamburg, require sophisticated control …

Real-time algorithms for JET hard X-ray and gamma-ray profile monitor

A Fernandes, RC Pereira, DF Valcárcel, D Alves… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2014 - Elsevier
The steady state operation with high energy content foreseen for future generation of fusion
devices will necessarily demand dedicated real-time tools and mechanisms for data …

ATCA-based hardware for control and data acquisition on nuclear fusion fast control plant systems

M Correia, J Sousa, AP Rodrigues… - … on Nuclear Science, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In contemporary control and data acquisition systems for Nuclear Fusion devices, the
galloping need for high channel density and real-time multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) …

A dual X-ray backscatter system for detecting explosives: Image and discrimination of a suspicious content

AS Lalleman, G Ferrand, B Rossé… - 2011 IEEE Nuclear …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most of luggage inspection systems, searching for presence of an explosive threat, are
based either on X-ray transmission technologies, such as radiography and computed …

Implementation of IEEE-1588 timing and synchronization for ATCA control and data acquisition systems

M Correia, J Sousa, Á Combo, AP Rodrigues… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Control and data acquisition (C&DA) systems for Fusion experiments are required to provide
accurate timing and synchronization (T&S) signals to all of its components. IPFN adopted …

Engineering design of ITER prototype fast plant system controller

B Gonçalves, J Sousa, B Carvalho… - 2010 17th IEEE …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
ITER CODAC Design identified the need for two types of Plant System. Slow control plant
system, based on industrial automation technology with maximum sampling rates below 100 …