DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Machine learning enabling high-throughput and remote operations at large-scale user facilities

Journal Article · · Digital Discovery
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/d2dd00014h · OSTI ID:2543009

Imaging, scattering, and spectroscopy are fundamental in understanding and discovering new functional materials. Contemporary innovations in automation and experimental techniques have led to these measurements being performed much faster and with higher resolution, thus producing vast amounts of data for analysis. These innovations are particularly pronounced at user facilities and synchrotron light sources. Machine learning (ML) methods are regularly developed to process and interpret large datasets in real-time with measurements. However, there remain conceptual barriers to entry for the facility general user community, whom often lack expertise in ML, and technical barriers for deploying ML models. Herein, we demonstrate a variety of archetypal ML models for on-the-fly analysis at multiple beamlines at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II). We describe these examples instructively, with a focus on integrating the models into existing experimental workflows, such that the reader can easily include their own ML techniques into experiments at NSLS-II or facilities with a common infrastructure. The framework presented here shows how with little effort, diverse ML models operate in conjunction with feedback loops via integration into the existing Bluesky Suite for experimental orchestration and data management.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities (SUF)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704
OSTI ID:
2543009
Report Number(s):
BNL--227960-2025-JAAM
Journal Information:
Digital Discovery, Journal Name: Digital Discovery Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 1; ISSN 2635-098X
Publisher:
Royal Society of ChemistryCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (54)

X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy Studies of Surfaces and Thin Films journal September 2014
Beyond Ternary OPV: High‐Throughput Experimentation and Self‐Driving Laboratories Optimize Multicomponent Systems journal April 2020
Enabling Scientific Discovery at Next-Generation Light Sources with Advanced AI and HPC book January 2020
Regularization in statistics journal September 2006
Silhouettes: A graphical aid to the interpretation and validation of cluster analysis journal November 1987
Autonomous experimentation systems for materials development: A community perspective journal September 2021
A high-bias, low-variance introduction to Machine Learning for physicists journal May 2019
Real-time detection of anomalous power consumption journal May 2014
Robot-Accelerated Perovskite Investigation and Discovery journal June 2020
Machine Learning for Materials Scientists: An Introductory Guide toward Best Practices journal May 2020
Complex Structure of Molten NaCl–CrCl 3 Salt: Cr–Cl Octahedral Network and Intermediate-Range Order journal March 2021
Optimizing Chemical Reactions with Deep Reinforcement Learning journal November 2017
Random Forests journal January 2001
What is principal component analysis? journal March 2008
A deep-learning technique for phase identification in multiphase inorganic compounds using synthetic XRD powder patterns journal January 2020
Comparison of dissimilarity measures for cluster analysis of X-ray diffraction data from combinatorial libraries journal February 2017
Unsupervised phase mapping of X-ray diffraction data by nonnegative matrix factorization integrated with custom clustering journal August 2018
How to explore chemical space using algorithms and automation journal January 2019
Emerging materials intelligence ecosystems propelled by machine learning journal November 2020
Machine learning for molecular and materials science journal July 2018
Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning journal January 2020
A mobile robotic chemist journal July 2020
A Kriging-Based Approach to Autonomous Experimentation with Applications to X-Ray Scattering journal August 2019
Noise reduction in X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy with convolutional neural networks encoder–decoder models journal July 2021
Understanding the molecular information contained in principal component analysis of vibrational spectra of biological systems journal January 2012
Chimera: enabling hierarchy based multi-objective optimization for self-driving laboratories journal January 2018
Structural characterisation of amorphous solid dispersions via metropolis matrix factorisation of pair distribution function data journal January 2019
Constrained non-negative matrix factorization enabling real-time insights of in situ and high-throughput experiments journal December 2021
A Fast Algorithm for the Minimum Covariance Determinant Estimator journal August 1999
A survey of image classification methods and techniques for improving classification performance journal March 2007
Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function journal March 1963
Bluesky's Ahead: A Multi-Facility Collaboration for an a la Carte Software Project for Data Acquisition and Management journal May 2019
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger journal February 2016
Bayesian Optimization of a Free-Electron Laser journal March 2020
Machine-Learning X-Ray Absorption Spectra to Quantitative Accuracy journal April 2020
Indexing of powder diffraction patterns by iterative use of singular value decomposition journal January 2003
Strategies for data collection and calibration with a pinhole-geometry SAXS instrument on a synchrotron beamline journal October 2006
TOPAS and TOPAS-Academic : an optimization program integrating computer algebra and crystallographic objects written in C++ journal February 2018
X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy journal August 2014
Serial crystallography on in vivo grown microcrystals using synchrotron radiation journal February 2014
Variational Gaussian process classifiers journal January 2000
Isolation Forest conference December 2008
Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment journal January 2007
Network Anomaly Detection: Methods, Systems and Tools journal January 2014
Least squares quantization in PCM journal March 1982
Accelerated discovery of metallic glasses through iteration of machine learning and high-throughput experiments journal April 2018
Superhuman AI for multiplayer poker journal August 2019
Crystal symmetry determination in electron diffraction using machine learning journal January 2020
ChemOS: Orchestrating autonomous experimentation journal June 2018
Real Time Data-Driven Approaches for Credit Card Fraud Detection conference February 2018
LOF: identifying density-based local outliers
  • Breunig, Markus M.; Kriegel, Hans-Peter; Ng, Raymond T.
  • Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data - SIGMOD '00 https://doi.org/10.1145/342009.335388
conference January 2000
Discriminatory Analysis. Nonparametric Discrimination: Consistency Properties journal December 1989
Basic Reinforcement Learning Techniques to Control the Intensity of a Seeded Free-Electron Laser journal May 2020
A Review on Optimal Subsampling Methods for Massive Datasets journal January 2021

Similar Records

Facile Integration of Robots into Experimental Orchestration at Scientific User Facilities
Conference · 2024 · 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) · OSTI ID:2549229

Outlook for artificial intelligence and machine learning at the NSLS-II
Journal Article · 2021 · Machine Learning: Science and Technology · OSTI ID:1835323

Combining diagnostics, modeling, and control systems for automated alignment of the TES beamline
Journal Article · 2022 · Journal of Physics. Conference Series · OSTI ID:1924214

Related Subjects