Speaker
Description
The Petra accelerator at DESY, in user operation for photon science experiments
since 2009, is one of the world-best synchrotron radiation sources.
Its experiment Control System is based on Tango, for hardware access and
transport layer, and Sardana for the user interfaces, including scripting,
and command line and graphical interfaces.
During these years of operation the control system has been developed trying
to satisfy the emerging requirements and new challenges.
The upcoming Petra IV project, a next-generation synchrotron radiation source
with unprecedented coherence properties, also implies an upgrade of the
experiment control, proven to have critical importance in achiving the
high quality experimental conditions at the beamlines.
The last developments and current ideas for the control of the experiments
at Petra will be reviewed at this talk.
