Goal
The ambitions of the project is the development of a versatile platform for remote-access and autonomous beamline operation.
The need that has arisen while the pandemic restrictions to increase the degree of automation for complex experiments.
More information to the project can be found here: https://www.rock-it-project.de/
Work Packages
WP0 Coordination
WP0 will ensure the effective coordination and management of the project, raise awareness and visibility as well as ensures that needs of neighboring communities and other Research Fields are adequately considered.
Contact: Sandra Hamann, Sven Kiele
WP1 - Remote Connection and Cyber Security
Contact: Gorek, Robby
WP2 - Controls and Automation
Development of stable controls and automation layer that connects to all other workpackages.
All partners within WP2 aggreed on using BlueSky as the central instance covering the topics.
As HZDR is not part of WP3 (Experiment and Robotics), the group working in WP2 is covering those topics for our center.
Contact: Wagner, Nicole
WP4 - Near Real-time Analysis / Machine Learning
Contact: Dr. Bussmann, Michael
WP5 - Data Lifecycle Management
- Establishing an electronic lab documentation as structure as possible and connecting all metadata and data sources. This documentation collects and serves from and to all other workpackages.
- Structured metadata and linked data is the essential basis for establishing export functionality. They are needed to exchange data to external partners.
- Scicat will be used as Metadata cataloque to provide data and metadata in a searchable form. The export from local documentation to Scicat is part of the project. This includes establishing and reusing metadata schemata.
Contact: Dr. Gruber, Thomas
Demonstrator
The Ion-Source Teststand is our first demonstrator setup that can be used for evaluating the architecture. Because it is a complete different scientific use-case than the catalysis experiments, this demonstration will show the generic approach of the selected and developed systems. After we have fully examined it on the Teststand, we can port it to an AMS machine called HAMSTER that is currently built up.
