Contrôle et Surveillance par automates de l'électronique du RICH

Located on the French-Swiss border, CERN is the world biggest physics laboratory in and will host in 2007 the LHC, the most powerful particles collider ever built on which will be dispatched various experiments and the LHCb in particular. The design of the project of monitoring and control of LHCb's RICH sub-detector electronics has taken place from April to September 2006, and has consisted in the integration of new tools specially designed for this experiment. Running under the PVSS II SCADA software, the project aims at monitoring and controlling power supplies and the sub-detector's electronics. The power supply system is based on CAEN and WIENER hardware while the monitoring relies on finite states machines, or FSM, linked to a configuration datatabase. As any research job, a part of the time was spent adjusting and testing the different components, in the SPECS data transmission or on the electronic design as well as documenting the work that have been one. This report describes the work done, its context and its tools.