My first task at the FLNR became modification of semi-automatic vacuum and gas supply systems for the FOBOS setup. A lot of new components: rotary pumps, turbo-molecular pumps, cryogenic pumps, valve gates, electronic watchdogs and alarms were installed and adapted to the existing equipment. Several subsystems: pressure controllers, gas flow controllers, electrical panels and power supplies were upgraded. Then the computer interface to the SIMATIC S5 processor system was extended by G.Renz and the control software was rewritten by D.May and C.Umlauf.
  FOBOS was an international project with a grant financing. A special attention was paid to make all detectors and their environment flexible to be used in other physical experiments. Thus a single gaseous module was planned for a Q3D facility at the FLNR, developed in collaboration between JINR (Dubna, Russia), INRNE (Sofia, Bulgaria), LTRD (Sofia, Bulgaria), INP (Rez, Czech Republic), INR (Kiev, Ukraine), GANIL (Caen, France), HMI (Berlin, Germany), IAP (Bucharest, Romania). The double-base spectrometer with a diagonal or asymmetrical arrangement of two detectors was proposed for the beam experiment at RIKEN (Japan).