Speaker
Dr
Markus Hoffmann
(DESY)
Description
Future accelerator projects such as the European X-FEL and the International
Linear Collider (ILC) will require the operation of the order of 1000 to
10,000 cavities. The operation of these large scale RF systems must be highly
automated to guarantee high performance and availability of the linacs.
The automation must provide a framework in the accelerator control system such
as sequencers or state machines which allow the implementation of operational
procedures developed by experts or operators. The procedures include turn-on
procedures, basic parameter settings, exception handling and self protection of
the system.
In addition, the automation should provide a procedure to continously optimizie
machine parameters operating close to the performance limit where a human
operator would be overstrained by the quantity of single subsystems to be
operated and the complexity in interaction between the systems and influence on
the beam quality at the end.
It looks like due to the evolution of procedures, the lack of concept the large
scale linear accelerator facilities nowerdays planned will run into problems.
We describe a useful ansatz for an automation concept and a concept for a
universal interface for implementing each of the single accelerator components
to be automated.
Author
Dr
Markus Hoffmann
(DESY)
