The Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility Phase-II Project is now under construction and it consists of 16 newly built advanced beamlines. The experiments carried out at these new beamlines tend to be characterized by high flux, multi-mode, ultra-fast frequency, in situ and dynamic loading. To meet these emerging experimental demands of SSRF Phase-II beamlines, the authors have developed a unified and extensible data acquisition system based on Bluesky suite. It has been applied at the BL07U Spatial-resolved and Spin-resolved ARPES and magnetism beamline. The experiment results show that with up to 5 channel signals, the system is capable of collecting total electron yield signals of experimental sample and standard sample, and incident photon flux signals simultaneously. It improves the user experimental efficiency and quality. In addition, thanks to Bluesky suite, all devices can be abstracted as motors or detectors and then represented by a Python object. Therefore, with the architecture, modules and interface developed for BL07U, the system can be extended to more beamlines efficiently and easily.

A synchrotron radiation beamline automatic optimization system has been used in the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, improving the optimization efficiency, but it does not store and use the beamline adjusting experience, and cannot quickly optimize and store the experienced improvement. The expert system combined with an automatic evolutionary algorithm is used for intelligent beamline optimization; the algorithm initialization is optimized by invoking database experience, the convergence is quickly completed near the optimal solution, and the system’s learning is improved by storing experience results. The software was designed on the EPICS (Version 3.15) platform, which was used to implement the algorithm in Python language, the expert database was developed with MongoDB tool (Version 4.0.27), and the upper application interface was designed with CSS software (Phoebus Version 4.7.2). The system was successfully tested on the BL13U hard X-ray nanoprobe beamline of Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility. The results show that the maximum convergence time of a single objective with four-axis degrees of freedom is about 2 min, and the speed is increased by 15 times. The solution set obtained by using multi-objective two and four-axis degrees of freedom is better overall. The system can effectively improve the optimization efficiency and effect, and its universality can be extended to other synchrotron radiation devices and beamlines to promote the development of intelligent beamline modulation technology.

A dedicated data acquisition system has been developed and commissioned for the tender-energy spectroscopy beamline BL16U1 at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility. The system implements a distributed architecture integrating EPICS-based hardware control with the Bluesky experiment orchestration environment, supporting multiple X-ray absorption spectroscopy modes including transmission, total electron yield, total fluorescence yield, and partial fluorescence yield detection. A key technical feature is the hardware-level synchronization between a multi-channel silicon drift detector and a multichannel scaler, enabling precise timing for fluorescence-XAS measurements. A unified graphical interface based on Control System Studio provides streamlined experiment control and real-time data visualization. System validation using standard reference samples demonstrates successful acquisition of high-quality Cl K-edge XANES spectra in fluorescence mode, high signal-to-noise Co K-edge EXAFS data in transmission mode with extended k-space coverage up to 16 Å⁻¹, and high-sensitivity Ti K-edge fluorescence XAFS on dilute (1–3%) TiO₂ polymorphs. These results confirm the system’s capability for reliable, high-precision spectroscopy across the tender-energy range (2–16 keV), supporting both trace-element analysis and detailed local-structure determination. The fully integrated system is now operational at the beamline, providing a robust platform for advanced X-ray absorption studies in environmental, catalytic, and materials science.

The performance of synchrotron beamlines critically depends on the optimal coupling between the undulator and the monochromator. This work presents the implementation and quantitative characterization of a synchronized scanning system for the elliptically polarizing undulator (EPU) and the variable-line-spacing plane-grating monochromator at the BL07U beamline of the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF). The system ensures that the monochromator’s narrow bandwidth dynamically tracks the brilliant central cone of the undulator radiation. A linear correlation between the monochromator energy and the undulator gap, justified theoretically for small scan ranges and reinforced by a robust real-time calibration procedure, forms the control basis. The automation is built upon a standard software stack comprising EPICS for device control, the Bluesky Suite for experimental orchestration, and Phoebus for the human–machine interface. Through comparative X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) measurements at the Fe L_2,3-edges, the synchronized mode is shown to enhance beam brilliance by 37% and stabilize the incident flux, reducing its variation from 4.2% to 1.8%. This directly results in absorption spectra with superior lineshape fidelity, a 40% reduction in noise, and the elimination of pre- and post-edge artifacts, unequivocally isolating the synchronization effect. This advancement provides a stable, high-brilliance photon source essential for high-quality XAS and X-ray magnetic circular/linear dichroism (XMCD/XMLD) studies.

The Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility’s hard X-ray nanoprobe wire station is currently under construction, so it is unable to conduct research on online testing, however, beamline adjustment is crucial prior to conducting experiments at the wire station, this challenge can be more effectively addressed by using simulation testing instead of online testing. In order to carry out intelligent beamline adjusting research before the online station is completed, this paper designs a beamline adjusting test simulation platform based on the EPICS software. Through the software simulation of the motor control system of the above-mentioned beamline, the beamline adjusting application of intelligent control methods is realized. The test results show that the system runs well and the intelligent beamline adjusting algorithm can efficiently and automatically optimize the motors in the system. The beamline adjusting test platform based on EPICS software can be further applied to the simulation and testing of other beamlines at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility.