A computer-based process control system for a target station in a LINAC facility.

摘要

An event-driven, sequential, process control system was designed for International Isotopes, Inc., to automate and remotely control a target station at the company's linear accelerator facility. The designed system consisted of two major sections: a software program (virtual instrument), which was developed by LabVIEW, and a hardware interface (FieldPoint Modular Distributed I/O System by National Instrument), which had to be a pre-developed system that did not require customization. The designed virtual instrument was tested on a simulation model that mimed the target station. The result was a valid design.;The paper is divided into six chapters: (1) Introduction; (2) Review of Literature; (3) Target Station Operation Processes; (4) System Design; (5) Data; (6) Summary and Conclusion.