Sprecher
Beschreibung
In this talk I will describe development of the BELLA Center control system, from requirements to implementation on all of our beamlines. The control system, named GEECS (Generalized Equipment and Experiment Control System), monitors, logs, and controls equipment distributed across a network. It was designed to be a complete software package that is straightforward to install, use, and develop. It is modular and scalable, and built using LabView graphical object oriented programming (GOOP). It has been the control system used for the experiments at the BELLA center for over 10 years. I will explain why we went down the path we did, give my perspectives on what has been successful and what changing requirements mean for the future of controls at the BELLA center.
