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RIS citation export for WEPHA099: XLEAP-II Motion Control

TY  - CONF
AU  - Montironi, M.A.
AU  - Bassan, H.
AU  - Carrasco, M.A.
AU  - Kraft, E.M.
AU  - Marinelli, A.
ED  - White, Karen S.
ED  - Brown, Kevin A.
ED  - Dyer, Philip S.
ED  - Schaa, Volker RW
TI  - XLEAP-II Motion Control
J2  - Proc. of ICALEPCS2019, New York, NY, USA, 05-11 October 2019
CY  - New York, NY, USA
T2  - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems
T3  - 17
LA  - english
AB  - The XLEAP project was conceived with the main scope of extending the generation of ultrashort pulses at LCLS to the sub-femtosecond (sub-fs) regime. As the project produced the expected results, an upgrade called XLEAP-II is being designed to provide the same functionality to LCLS-II. The XLEAP project utilized one variable gap wiggler to produce sub-fs X-ray pulses. The upgrade will involve four additional wigglers in the form of repurposed LCLS fixed gap undulators mounted on translation stages. This paper describes the design of the hardware and software architecture utilized in the motion control system of the wigglers. First it discusses how the variable gap wiggler was upgraded to be controlled by an Aerotech Ensemble motion controller through an EPICS Soft IOC (input-output controller). Then the motion control strategy for the additional four wigglers, also based around Aerotech controllers driving servomotors, is presented. Lessons learned from operating the wiggler and undulators during LCLS operation are discussed and utilized as a base upon which the upgraded motion control system is designed and built. Novel challenges are also identified and mitigations are discussed.
PB  - JACoW Publishing
CP  - Geneva, Switzerland
SP  - 1325
EP  - 1328
KW  - controls
KW  - undulator
KW  - wiggler
KW  - feedback
KW  - electron
DA  - 2020/08
PY  - 2020
SN  - 2226-0358
SN  - 978-3-95450-209-7
DO  - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-WEPHA099
UR  - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2019/papers/wepha099.pdf
ER  -