Research of Remote Control Platform for HIRFL Nuclear Materials Irradiation Experiment

Aiming at the automation control problem in the heavy-ion irradiation experiment of nuclear energy materials at HIRFL (Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou), a remote control system scheme centered on the TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) protocol is proposed. Due to the limitations of the experimental construction conditions, the experimental terminals lack network transmission capabilities. To reduce the physical harm of ionizing radiation to experimental personnel, serial communication and TCP protocol communication are adopted to achieve remote operation and monitoring of irradiation terminal equipments. Regarding the beam intensity and particle number, which are among the statistical data of material irradiation experiments, the original equipment was built earlier and cannot achieve automatic computer recording. In this work, a dedicated image-processing software has been developed, which can record the irradiation dose in the irradiation experiment in real-time. After testing with the dataset, the processing success rate of this software reaches 97%. Finally, through on-site operation tests, the entire control platform operates stably and meets the requirements of material irradiation experiments.