Additional Projects: Critical Components and Software

Motion Control & Automation (MCA)

The ESS Motion Control & Automation Group evaluated linear servomotors and feedback sensors in terms of performance and integration in order to add that particular technology to ESS standards and deploy it to all instrument projects. Furthermore, they developed several robotics equipment, as well as electrical cabinets. Given the vast amount of evaluation work that had to be carried out in preparation for future project stages, a number of evaluation & development projects have been completed at partner facilities where the experience and expertise to complete these tasks already exists. ESS has chosen FZJ to work on three of such development work packages which have been finalized successfully.

Data Analysis and Modelling

The JCNS group located in Garching contributed to the development of a software for data analysis and modelling. In this project, the software BornAgain, originally designed for modelling and fitting grazing-inciedence small-angle scattering, was extended to reflectometry and off-specular scattering. Results have been released as open source.