The Control of a Beamline Over Intranet

Abstract

The machines and beamlines controlled by VME industrial networks are very popular in accelerator faculties. Recently new software technology, among of which are Internet/Intranet application, Java language, and distributed calculating environment, changes the control manner rapidly. A program based on DCOM is composed to control of a variable included angle spherical grating monochromator beamline at National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) in China. The control computer with a residential DCOM program is connected to Intranet by LAN, over which the user-end-operating program located in another computer sends driving beamline units' commands to the control computer. And also a web page coded in Java, published by the WWW service running in the control computer, is simply illustrated how to use web browser to query the states of or to control the beamline units.