We propose a framework to develop cyber solutions to support the remote steering of science instruments and measurements collection over instrument-computing ecosystems. It is based on provisioning separate data and control connections at the network level, and developing software modules consisting of Python wrappers for instrument commands and Pyro server-client codes that make them available across the ecosystem network. We demonstrate automated measurement transfers and remote steering operations in a microscopy use case for materials research over an ecosystem of Nion microscopes and computing platforms connected over site networks. The proposed framework is currently under further refinement and being adopted to science workflows with automated remote experiments steering for autonomous chemistry laboratories and smart energy grid simulations.
@article{arxiv.2307.06883,
title = {Cyber Framework for Steering and Measurements Collection Over Instrument-Computing Ecosystems},
author = {Anees Al-Najjar and Nageswara S. V. Rao and Ramanan Sankaran and Helia Zandi and Debangshu Mukherjee and Maxim Ziatdinov and Craig Bridges},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.06883},
year = {2023}
}
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Paper accepted for presentation at IEEE SMARTCOMP 2023