Author: Kaiser, J.
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TUPAB298 First Steps Toward an Autonomous Accelerator, a Common Project Between DESY and KIT 2182
 
  • A. Eichler, F. Burkart, J. Kaiser, W. Kuropka, O. Stein
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • E. Bründermann, A. Santamaria Garcia, C. Xu
    KIT, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
  
  Funding: Helmholtz Artificial Cooperation Unit
Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing al­go­rithms have risen in pop­u­lar­ity in re­cent years in the ac­cel­er­a­tor physics com­mu­nity, show­ing po­ten­tial in beam con­trol and in the op­ti­miza­tion and au­toma­tion of tasks in ac­cel­er­a­tor op­er­a­tion. The Helmholtz AI pro­ject "Ma­chine Learn­ing to­ward Au­tonomous Ac­cel­er­a­tors" is a col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween DESY and KIT that works on in­ves­ti­gat­ing and de­vel­op­ing RL ap­pli­ca­tions for the au­to­matic start-up of elec­tron lin­ear ac­cel­er­a­tors. The work is car­ried out in par­al­lel at two sim­i­lar re­search ac­cel­er­a­tors: ARES at DESY and FLUTE at KIT, giv­ing the unique op­por­tu­nity of trans­fer learn­ing be­tween fa­cil­i­ties. One of the first steps of this pro­ject is the es­tab­lish­ment of a com­mon in­ter­face be­tween the sim­u­la­tions and the ma­chine, in order to test and apply var­i­ous op­ti­miza­tion ap­proaches in­ter­change­ably be­tween the two ac­cel­er­a­tors. In this paper we pre­sent the first re­sults on the com­mon in­ter­face and its ap­pli­ca­tion to beam fo­cus­ing in ARES, and the idea of laser shap­ing with spa­tial light mod­u­la­tors at FLUTE. 		 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-TUPAB298  
About • paper received ※ 19 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 02 August 2021       issue date ※ 17 August 2021  
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