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29 September 2004 A real-time control system for the control of suspended interferometers based on hybrid computing techniques
Fausto Acernese, Fabrizio Barone, Rosario De Rosa, Antonio Eleuteri, Leopoldo Milano, Silvio Pardi, Iolanda Ricciardi, Guido Russo
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Abstract
One of the main requirements of a digital system for the control of interferometric detectors of gravitational waves is the computing power, that is a direct consequence of the increasing complexity of the digital algorithms necessary for the control signals generation. For this specific task many specialized non standard real-time architectures have been developed, often very expensive and difficult to upgrade. On the other hand, such computing power is generally fully available for off-line applications on standard Pc based systems. Therefore, a possible and obvious solution may be provided by the integration of both the real-time and off-line architecture resulting in a hybrid control system architecture based on standards available components, trying to get both the advantages of the perfect data synchronization provided by the real-time systems and by the large computing power available on Pc based systems. Such integration may be provided by the implementation of the link between the two different architectures through the standard Ethernet network, whose data transfer speed is largely increasing in these years, using the TCP/IP, UDP and raw Ethernet protocols. In this paper we describe the architecture of an hybrid Ethernet based real-time control system prototype we implemented in Napoli, discussing its characteristics and performances. Finally we discuss a possible application to the real-time control of a suspended mass of the mode cleaner of the 3m prototype optical interferometer for gravitational wave detection (IDGW-3P) operational in Napoli.
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Fausto Acernese, Fabrizio Barone, Rosario De Rosa, Antonio Eleuteri, Leopoldo Milano, Silvio Pardi, Iolanda Ricciardi, and Guido Russo "A real-time control system for the control of suspended interferometers based on hybrid computing techniques", Proc. SPIE 5500, Gravitational Wave and Particle Astrophysics Detectors, (29 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.552993
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KEYWORDS
Control systems

Computing systems

Prototyping

Standards development

Interferometers

Computer architecture

Interferometry

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