Hannes Gamper: "Robotics for FCC: Designing for Robotic Installation, Maintenance and Operation"

by Hannes Gamper (CERN)

Thursday 22 Oct 2026, 16:00 → 17:30 Europe/Zurich

774/R-013 (CERN)

This presentation gives an overview of Robotics for the Future Circular Collider. Building on the 2020–2025 Feasibility Study, which identified robotics as a key enabler for machine availability and safety, the subsequent Work Package has advanced three main lines of work: a methodology, developed with the Reliability and Availability Working Group, for identifying key equipment, stakeholders and requirements as well as the economically optimal level of automation, with example studies on smoke-detection validation and power-converter replacement showing availability gains of up to 3.9%, a modular, open robotic software ecosystem (the CERN Robotics Framework) unifying diverse robot platforms to ensure long-term maintainability across the decades-long FCC timeline and the design, manufacturing, and installation of the Remote Maintenance & Inspection System (RMIS) prototype in the FCC Arc Half-Cell mock-up, now serving as a testbed for validating robotics-friendly infrastructure and maintenance procedures. The talk will close with an outlook on upcoming priorities, including extending the automation-level analysis to further FCC systems, running proof-of-concept interventions in the mock-up, and addressing longer-term challenges such as fault tolerance, AI strategies and safety certification.

CEM-TM_FCCRobotics_Gamper_F.pdf

CEM-TM_FCCRobotics_Gamper_F.pptx