Experimental Safe Extremum Seeking for Accelerators
Journal Article
·
· IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
- Univ. of San Diego, San Diego, CA (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Univ. of San Diego, San Diego, CA (United States)
Here, we demonstrate the recent designs of safe extremum seeking (Safe ES) on the 1-km-long charged particle accelerator at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE). Safe ES is a modification of extremum seeking (ES) which, in addition to minimizing an analytically unknown cost, also employs a safety filter based on an analytically unknown control barrier function (CBF) safety metric. Tuning is necessitated by accelerators being large complex systems, with many drifting parameters due to thermal effects and degradation. At the same time, safe operation (the maintenance of state constraints) is crucial, as damage brings astronomical costs, both financially and in operation downtime. Our measured (but analytically unknown) safety metric is the beam current. We perform multivariable Safe ES on three accelerator applications, in which we adapt 4, 6, and 3 magnet strength parameters, respectively. Two of the three applications are for validated simulation models of beamlines at LANSCE: the first for the proton radiography (pRad) beamline of 800-MeV protons for spot size tuning; the second on a high-performance code, HPSim, for tuning the low-energy beam transport (LEBT) region that contains a beam of 750-keV protons. The third is an experimental tuning of the steering magnets in the LEBT at LANSCE.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- 89233218CNA000001
- OSTI ID:
- 2332792
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR--23-29586
- Journal Information:
- IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 32; ISSN 1063-6536
- Publisher:
- IEEECopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
Semiglobal Safety-Filtered Extremum Seeking With Unknown CBFs
Extremum Seeking-Based Control System for Particle Accelerator Beam Loss Minimization
Journal Article
·
Thu Sep 26 20:00:00 EDT 2024
· IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
·
OSTI ID:2478087
Extremum Seeking-Based Control System for Particle Accelerator Beam Loss Minimization
Journal Article
·
Thu Dec 30 19:00:00 EST 2021
· IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
·
OSTI ID:1841943