TALOS (Total Automation of LabVIEW Operations for Science): A framework for autonomous control systems for complex experiments
Abstract
Modern physics experiments are frequently very complex, relying on multiple simultaneous events to happen in order to obtain the desired result. The experiment control system plays a central role in orchestrating the measurement setup: However, its development is often treated as secondary with respect to the hardware, its importance becoming evident only during the operational phase. Therefore, the AEgIS (Antimatter Experiment: Gravity, Interferometry, Spectroscopy) collaboration has created a framework for easily coding control systems, specifically targeting atomic, quantum, and antimatter experiments. This framework, called Total Automation of LabVIEW Operations for Science (TALOS), unifies all the machines of the experiment in a single entity, thus enabling complex high-level decisions to be taken, and it is constituted by separate modules, called MicroServices, that run concurrently and asynchronously. This enhances the stability and reproducibility of the system while allowing for continuous integration and testing while the control system is running. The system demonstrated high stability and reproducibility, running completely unsupervised during the night and weekends of the data-taking campaigns. The results demonstrate the suitability of TALOS to manage an entire physics experiment in full autonomy: being open-source, experiments other than the AEgIS experiment can benefit from it.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2409.01058,
title = {TALOS (Total Automation of LabVIEW Operations for Science): A framework for autonomous control systems for complex experiments},
author = {M. Volponi and J. Zieliński and T. Rauschendorfer and S. Huck and R. Caravita and M. Auzins and B. Bergmann and P. Burian and R. S. Brusa and A. Camper and F. Castelli and G. Cerchiari and R. Ciuryło and G. Consolati and M. Doser and K. Eliaszuk and A. Giszczak and L. T. Glöggler and Ł. Graczykowski and M. Grosbart and F. Guatieri and N. Gusakova and F. Gustafsson and S. Haider and M. A. Janik and T. Januszek and G. Kasprowicz and G. Khatri and Ł. Kłosowski and G. Kornakov and V. Krumins and L. Lappo and A. Linek and J. Malamant and S. Mariazzi and L. Penasa and V. Petracek and M. Piwiński and S. Pospisil and L. Povolo and F. Prelz and S. A. Rangwala and B. S. Rawat and B. Rienäcker and V. Rodin and O. M. Røhne and H. Sandaker and P. Smolyanskiy and T. Sowiński and D. Tefelski and T. Vafeiadis and C. P. Welsch and T. Wolz and M. Zawada and N. Zurlo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.01058},
year = {2024}
}