GOLD: Integration of model-based control systems with artificial intelligence and workstations

Conference · Sat Aug 01 04:00:00 UTC 1987

OSTI ID:5911073

Lee, M; Clearwater, S

Our experience with model based accelerator control started at SPEAR. Since that time nearly all accelerator beam lines have been controlled using model-based application programs, for example, PEP and SLC at SLAC. In order to take advantage of state-of-the-art hardware and software technology, the design and implementation of the accelerator control programs have undergone radical change with time. Consequently, SPEAR, PEP, and SLC all use different control programs. Since many of these application programs are imbedded deep into the control system, they had to be rewritten each time. Each time this rewriting has occurred a great deal of time and effort has been spent on training physicists and programmers to do the job. Now, we have developed these application programs for a fourth time. This time, however, the programs we are developing are generic so that we will not have to do it again. We have developed an integrated system called GOLD (Generic Orbit and Lattice Debugger) for debugging and correcting trajectory errors in accelerator lattices. The system consists of a lattice modeling program (COMFORT), a beam simulator (PLUS), a graphical workstation environment (micro-VAX) and an expert system (ABLE). This paper will describe some of the features and applications of our integrated system with emphasis on the automation offered by expert systems. 5 refs.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA); Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 5911073
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-87-2980; CONF-8708145-1; ON: DE88000506
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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