Fiabilité des Capteurs-Transmetteurs intégrant des Fonctionnalités Numériques

These works are part of a PhD thesis performed at the INERIS, under the scientific supervision of the UTT, and about the reliability of digital-based transmitters. These systems are commonly described as “intelligent” since they are able to perform innovative functionalities such as self-diagnoses, error measurement corrections, self-adjustments, and on-line reconfigurations. Moreover, they may take advantage of a bidirectional digital communication to perform “cooperating” operations. First, an “intelligent transmitter” modelling has been developed, which includes material and functional interactions, and reliability analyses have been proposed based on this model, dealing with uncertainties linked to system behaviours under faulty conditions. Then, “intelligent transmitters” taking part of control systems have been considered, taking the system elements interactions into account, as well as the process influences, using a dynamic reliability framework

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Active cooling control of the CLEO detector using a hydrocarbon coolant farm

We describe a novel approach to particle-detector cooling in which a modular farm of active coolant-control platforms provides independent and regulated heat removal from four recently upgraded subsystems of the CLEO detector: the ring-imaging Cherenkov detector, the drift chamber, the silicon vertex detector, and the beryllium beam pipe. We report on several aspects of the system: the suitability of using the aliphatic-hydrocarbon solvent PF(TM)-200IG as a heat-transfer fluid, the sensor elements and the mechanical design of the farm platforms, a control system that is founded upon a commercial programmable logic controller employed in industrial process-control applications, and a diagnostic system based on virtual instrumentation. We summarize the system's performance and point out the potential application of the design to future high-energy physics apparatus.Comment: 21 pages, LaTeX, 5 PostScript figures; version accepted for publication in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research