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MOPHA151 Feasibility of Hardware Acceleration in the LHC Orbit Feedback Controller GPU, hardware, feedback, controls 584
 
  • L. Grech, D. Alves, S. Jackson, J. Wenninger
    CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
  • G. Valentino
    University of Malta, Information and Communication Technology, Msida, Malta
 
  Orbit correction in accelerators typically make use of a linear model of the machine, called the Response Matrix (RM), that relates local beam deflections to position changes. The RM is used to obtain a Pseudo-Inverse (PI), which is used in a feedback configuration, where positional errors from the reference orbit as measured by Beam Position Monitors (BPMs) are used to calculate the required change in the current flowing through the Closed Orbit Dipoles (CODs). The calculation of the PIs from the RMs is a crucial part in the LHC’s Orbit Feedback Controller (OFC), however in the present implementation of the OFC this calculation is omitted as it takes too much time to calculate and thus is unsuitable in a real-time system. As a temporary solution the LHC operators pre-calculate the new PIs outside the OFC, and then manually upload them to the OFC in advance. In this paper we aim to find a solution to this computational bottleneck through hardware acceleration in order to act automatically and as quickly as possible to COD and/or BPM failures by re-calculating the PIs within the OFC. These results will eventually be used in the renovation of the OFC for the LHC’s Run 3.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-MOPHA151  
About • paper received ※ 30 September 2019       paper accepted ※ 10 October 2019       issue date ※ 30 August 2020  
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THAPP06 Double Crystal Monochromator Control System for Energy Materials In-Situ Laboratory Berlin (EMIL) controls, software, experiment, hardware 1561
 
  • A.F. Balzer, P. Sreelatha Devi, A. Ziegler
    HZB, Berlin, Germany
 
  A multi modal set-up provides synchrotron radiation with a broad energy range of 80 eV - 10 keV and variable polarization to the EMIL lab at BESSY II. Two canted undulators, five end stations, three monochromators, more than twenty optical elements, sample to source distances of more than 60 m are challenges by its own. The Double Crystal Monochromator (DCM) feeding the U17 hard X-ray beamlines was designed and optimized for stability and resolution. The mechanical concept of the U17/DCM puts high demands on the software. For on-the-fly synchronization of crystal pitch, crystal translation and the cryogenic cooling system rotation, a closed loop feedback is needed to fulfill the control system requirements. Motion programs are used for compensation of the non-linearities of the pitch rotation. Target positions are approached on a well defined path improving reproducibility and positioning time. A non-linear closed loop control provides fine positioning. A setup of the motion controller based on the tpmac module provides the abstraction interface to the complex DCM motion control software. This paper discusses the DCM hardware, the software model and experimental verification.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-THAPP06  
About • paper received ※ 23 September 2019       paper accepted ※ 21 October 2019       issue date ※ 30 August 2020  
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