Configurable Experiment Control System (FAIRmat (NFDI) D5)
Third Party Funds Group - Sub project
Acronym: FAIRmat (NFDI) D5
Start date : 01.10.2021
End date : 30.09.2026
Website: https://www.fair-di.eu/fairmat/areas-fairmat/area-d-fairmat
Overall project details
Overall project
FAIRmat – FAIRe Dateninfrastruktur für die Physik der kondensierten Materie und die chemische Physik fester Stoffe
Project details
Scientific Abstract
The condensed-matter community not only uses commercial standalone measurement systems, but often individual ad-hoc experimental setups for many small experiments, in which a set of measurement and process control devices are combined in order to solve a highly specific measurement task. On the good side, this heterogeneous experimental situation is ultra-flexible and productive; however, its downside is, by experience, a heterogeneous data structure and highly redundant development of corresponding software pieces.
Within this project we are developing a configurable experiment control system (NOMAD-CAMELS). It targets (i) simplifying the implementation of measurement and process-control protocols, thereby (ii) generating standardized output for individual measurement and process control setups. As a consequence of the generalized concept, (iii) metadata can be generated automatically, which precisely documents the experimental protocol including all device settings. These metadata will be mutually linked with sample history in electronic lab notebooks (ELNs). Furthermore, (iv) NOMAD-CAMELS will include a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI), a setup wizard as well as tutorials and documentation allowing researchers and students an immediate start of experiments. Thus, this task intends to implement FAIRmat standards very early in the research data life cycle, starting from the data management plan, to raw-data recording along with the description of data acquisition.
Involved:
Heiko Weber
Project Leader
Michael Krieger
Project Leader
Johannes Lehmeyer
Project Member
Alexander Fuchs
Project Member
