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Title: Adaptive control for accelerators

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5461345

This patent describes an adaptive feedforward control loop is provided to stabilize accelerator beam loading of the radio frequency field in an accelerator cavity during successive pulses of the beam into the cavity. A digital signal processor enables an adaptive algorithm to generate a feedforward error correcting signal functionally determined by the feedback error obtained by a beam pulse loading the cavity after the previous correcting signal was applied to the cavity. Each cavity feedforward correcting signal is successively stored in the digital processor and modified by the feedback error resulting from its application to generate the next feedforward error correcting signal. A feedforward error correcting signal is generated by the digital processor in advance of the beam pulse to enable a composite correcting signal and the beam pulse to arrive concurrently at the cavity.

Assignee:
Dept of Energy, Washington, DC (USA)
Patent Number(s):
US 4982320; A
Application Number:
PPN: US 7-263852; TRN: 91-024337
OSTI ID:
5461345
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 28 Oct 1988
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English