irrad_control is a GUI-based control, data acquisition (DAQ) and visualization software for the proton irradiation site at the Bonn isochronous cyclotron, located at the Helmholtz Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik (HISKP), of Bonn University. It consists of software which runs on an on-site Raspberry Pi server controlling the setup and on the DAQ PC interpreting and visualizing data as well as controlling the server.
You have to have Python 2/3 with the following packages installed:
- numpy
- pyyaml
- pyzmq
- pytables
- pyqt
- pyqtgraph
- paramiko
It's recommended to use a Python environment like Miniconda. After installation you can use Minicondas package manager conda to install the required packages
conda install numpy pyyaml pytables pyqt pyzmq pyqtgraph paramikoTo finally install irrad_control on the DAQ PC run the setup script
python setup.py developThe irradiation setup is controlled by a RaspberryPi 3 server which handles a XY-Stage as well as an extension
ADDA board which is used for beam current measurement.
A ssh key of the host PC must be copied to the server Raspberry Pi. Create and copy a key via
ssh-keygen -b 2048 -t rsa ssh-copy-id pi@ip
where ip is the ip of the Raspberry Pi within the network. The server is then automatically set up on first use with irrad_control.