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TY - CONF AU - Fernandez Carmona, P. AU - Bula, C. AU - Eichin, M. AU - Klimpki, G. AU - Meer, D. AU - Minnig, V. AU - Psoroulas, S. AU - Weber, D.C. ED - Cheng, Yung-Sen ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Chiu, Pei-Chen ED - Li, Lu ED - Liu, Yung-Hui ED - Petit-Jean-Genaz, Christine TI - Continuous Beam Scanning Intensity Control of a Medical Proton Accelerator Using a Simulink Generated FPGA Gain Scheduled Controller J2 - Proc. of PCaPAC2018, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 16-19 October 2018 CY - Hsinchu, Taiwan T2 - International Workshop on Emerging Technologies and Scientific Facilities Controls T3 - 12 LA - english AB - At the Centre for Proton Therapy at the Paul Scherrer Institut we treat cancer patients using a fixed beam line and two gantries. The latter use a step-and-shoot technique to deliver dose covering the treatment volume with a grid of weighted proton bunches. Dose delivery for tumours moving under respiration (e.g. lung) is however challenging and not routinely performed because of the interplay between target and beam motions. At the Gantry 2 unit, we are implementing a novel continuous beam modulation concept called line scanning, aiming at realizing a faster dose delivery to allow for effective organ motion mitigation techniques such as rescanning and gating. The current should stabilise within 100 us, which is tough due to the non-linearity of the system and latency of the monitors. In this work we implemented a gain scheduled controller and a predictor by modelling the accelerator in Simulink and developing a controller using the frequency domain robust method. We used Mathwork’s HDL Coder functionality to generate VHDL code that was implemented in an FPGA in the gantry control system. Latency, overshoot and dosimetric performance improved considerably compared to a classic PID. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 242 EP - 247 KW - controls KW - proton KW - power-supply KW - cyclotron KW - radiation DA - 2019/01 PY - 2019 SN - 978-3-95450-200-4 DO - DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-PCaPAC2018-FRCC2 UR - http://jacow.org/pcapac2018/papers/frcc2.pdf ER -