Developing a Remote Diagnostics Application for Remote Handling Systems of ITER
Minkkinen, Joni (2017)
Minkkinen, Joni
2017
Automaatiotekniikka
Teknisten tieteiden tiedekunta - Faculty of Engineering Sciences
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Hyväksymispäivämäärä
2017-10-04
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tty-201709201916
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tty-201709201916
Tiivistelmä
ITER is an experimental thermonuclear reactor, which is supposed to solve challenges with energy resources in the future. Once the reactor is finished, it will require maintenance operations at times. Because of radiation in the reactor, maintenance operations are remotely controlled and therefore a remote diagnostics application is required for monitoring this remotely controlled maintenance system.
This thesis focuses on developing the remote diagnostics application for remote handling systems of ITER. The application will be developed in co-operation with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland LTD and Tampere University of Technology. Aim of the project is to develop application for monitoring status and condition of the maintenance equipment and save acquired data into archives for investigation purposes.
One of the main requirements for the application is that the application should be customisable and flexible. Application should be usable also with other types of equipment, not only with maintenance equipment. The application is rule-based and the operator should be able to create and edit these rules without aborting or recompiling the application. This caused some architectural problems to solve. The application is developed with graphical LabVIEW development software, which allowed many different approaches to the architectural problem.
As a result of this thesis, a prototype of the Remote Diagnostics Application was created. The prototype was demonstrated for the customer in May 2017. Developing the application will continue and plans for the future development process are already done.
This thesis focuses on developing the remote diagnostics application for remote handling systems of ITER. The application will be developed in co-operation with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland LTD and Tampere University of Technology. Aim of the project is to develop application for monitoring status and condition of the maintenance equipment and save acquired data into archives for investigation purposes.
One of the main requirements for the application is that the application should be customisable and flexible. Application should be usable also with other types of equipment, not only with maintenance equipment. The application is rule-based and the operator should be able to create and edit these rules without aborting or recompiling the application. This caused some architectural problems to solve. The application is developed with graphical LabVIEW development software, which allowed many different approaches to the architectural problem.
As a result of this thesis, a prototype of the Remote Diagnostics Application was created. The prototype was demonstrated for the customer in May 2017. Developing the application will continue and plans for the future development process are already done.