Human Machine Interface for High Energy Physics Experiments

The increasing complexity of scientific experiments puts a large number of requirements on the systems, which need to control and monitor the hardware components required for the experiments. This article discusses three different technologies of developing Human Machine Interface (HMI) for the Piezo Control System (PCS) developed at the Lodz University of Technology (TUL). The purpose of the PCS system is compensating the detuning of a superconducting accelerating structure caused by the Lorentz force. A set of full-custom HMI operator panels was needed to operate the prototype device. In order to select the technology, which would best suit the requirements; the interface was designed and developed in native Qt, Qt Quick and EPICS. The comparison was made and their advantages and drawbacks are presented.