Commissioning tools at the Australian Synchrotron
summary
Python code controls EPICS-backed positioners and detectors, stores Bluesky documents in a tiled database, and shows live and historical scans in a Dash GUI that runs from a Jupyter notebook. The interface produces Gaussian statistics automatically, supports 1D scans (one positioner + one detector) and 2D scans (two positioners + one detector), lets users click a 2D Gaussian to take horizontal and vertical slices, and is already used on MX3 with ADS coming soon.
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chapters (31)
- 0:00Australian Synchrotron intro
- 1:09Commissioning tools
- 2:55Synchrotron x-ray generation
- 3:57Synchrotron key components
- 5:25Australian Synchrotron location
- 6:06Synchrotron basics
- 7:14Beam lines and data
- 7:55Positioners and detectors
- 9:28Beam line setup and control
- 9:48Python in scientific computing
- 10:10Ophyd and EPICS control
- 11:14Ophyd device classes
- 12:18EPICS hardware connection
- 13:04Testing hardware with Python
- 14:30Ophyd devices for detectors
- 15:13Blue Sky plans intro
- 16:15Blue Sky JSON data
- 17:19Blue Sky motor and detector plans
- 18:01Protecting from x-rays
- 19:06What is a Gaussian and why it matters
- 19:27Commissioning process
- 20:52Designing alignment tools
- 21:16Jupyter and Blue Sky plans
- 21:58Tiled database storage
- 22:181D scans with tools
- 23:222D scans for alignment
- 24:06Dash scan analysis
- 25:302D scan visualization
- 26:12Commissioning tools recap
- 26:55Acknowledgments
- 27:16Question and answer session
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