The upgrade to the EAST poloidal field power supply monitoring system

Abstract This paper presents the architecture and the implementation of the upgraded Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) Poloidal Field Power Supply (PFPS) monitoring system. To meet the requirements of EAST long pulse discharge, the monitoring system has been upgraded based on experimental physics and industrial control system (EPICS) and MDSplus. It provides an integrated management of supervision, data acquisition and real-time control. The program is flexible and portable, which improves the system performance. The I/O interrupt mechanism of the device support module is used to read the updated data, which reduces the network communication load. Asynchronous Driver Support (AsynDriver) is used to develop the device's specific interfacing code for the DAQ card driver, simplify writing of drivers and make the program more reliable. The HMI is developed using Control System Studio (CSS). During the experiment, the collect data is stored in the archiving system from PFPS system and sent to the MDSplus data server at the same time, so that the operator can view and analyze the online data and offline data. The upgraded monitoring system provides a general design scheme, which can be well integrated into the control system. The experimental results show the system realizes the remote operation and monitoring of equipment of PFPS and provides a friendly human-machine interface, supports multiuser operation.