ADAA: new software for intelligent instrument control

Abstract Automated data acquisition and analysis (ADAA) is a new platform for automation of experiments, including data reduction, analysis and feedback. The objective of ADAA is to develop software that enables scientific control of the progress of an experiment, e.g. monitoring in terms of analysed data as opposed to measured data, one obvious aim being to maximize the scientific output from a given period of beam time. Basic design considerations will be outlined and discussed in the context of several types of experiments.