Cyber Framework for Steering and Measurements Collection Over Instrument-Computing Ecosystems
Anees Al-Najjar, Nageswara S. V. Rao, Ramanan Sankaran, Helia Zandi,, Debangshu Mukherjee, Maxim Ziatdinov, Craig Bridges

TL;DR
This paper introduces a cyber framework enabling remote control and data collection from scientific instruments over complex networks, demonstrated through microscopy and adaptable for autonomous labs and energy grids.
Contribution
It presents a novel software-based framework utilizing Python and Pyro for remote instrument control and measurement collection in instrument-computing ecosystems.
Findings
Successful remote microscopy measurements
Automated data transfer demonstrated
Framework adaptable to various scientific workflows
Abstract
We propose a framework to develop cyber solutions to support the remote steering of science instruments and measurements collection over instrument-computing ecosystems. It is based on provisioning separate data and control connections at the network level, and developing software modules consisting of Python wrappers for instrument commands and Pyro server-client codes that make them available across the ecosystem network. We demonstrate automated measurement transfers and remote steering operations in a microscopy use case for materials research over an ecosystem of Nion microscopes and computing platforms connected over site networks. The proposed framework is currently under further refinement and being adopted to science workflows with automated remote experiments steering for autonomous chemistry laboratories and smart energy grid simulations.
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Taxonomy
TopicsScientific Computing and Data Management · Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
