• High Power Laser and Particle Beams
  • Vol. 32, Issue 4, 045108 (2020)
Hairong Li1、2, Geyang Jiang1、*, Lin Jin1, Qiannan Li1, Rui Li1, and Liren Shen1
Author Affiliations
  • 1Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiading Campus, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    DOI: 10.11884/HPLPB202032.190442 Cite this Article
    Hairong Li, Geyang Jiang, Lin Jin, Qiannan Li, Rui Li, Liren Shen. Development of dynamic power control system in proton therapy facility[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2020, 32(4): 045108 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A high-speed real-time dynamic power control system based on an open source platform has been developed to satisfy the multi-platform energy extraction requirements of the main loop dynamic power supply in a proton therapy facility. The control system uses a Beaglebone based open-source platform as the top-level hardware interface, the controller with Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) as the core as the underlying hardware interface, and uses a distributed Experiment Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) for remote control. This system can transmit the output reference current waveform data of any dynamic power source in real time, and controls the dynamic power source to output according to the preset current waveform combined with the timing system and the interlocking system, and realizes the energy extraction of multiple platforms. Experimental results show that the control system can achieve a maximum of 100 000 instructions per second and zero error rates for millions of data transmissions. In addition, the system structure is flexible and extensible, and it can be served as a universal control platform.
    Hairong Li, Geyang Jiang, Lin Jin, Qiannan Li, Rui Li, Liren Shen. Development of dynamic power control system in proton therapy facility[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2020, 32(4): 045108
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