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Title Real-time artificial intelligence for accelerator control: A study at the Fermilab Booster
Abstract We describe a method for precisely regulating the gradient magnet power supply (GMPS) at the Fermilab Booster accelerator complex using a neural network trained via reinforcement learning. We demonstrate preliminary results by training a surrogate machine-learning model on real accelerator data to emulate the GMPS, and using this surrogate model in turn to train the neural network for its regulation task. We additionally show how the neural networks to be deployed for control purposes may be compiled to execute on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and show the first machine-learning based control algorithm implemented on an FPGA for controls at the Fermilab accelerator complex. As there are no surprise latencies on an FPGA, this capability is important for operational stability in complicated environments such as an accelerator facility.
Author(s) J. John, Malachi Schram, Christian Herwig, D. Kafkes, Jovan Mitrevski, William Pellico, G. Perdue, Andres Quintero-Parra, Brian Schupbach, Kiyomi Seiya, Nhan Tran, Javier Duarte, Y. Huang, R. Keller
Publication Date October 2021
Document Type Journal Article
Primary Institution Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News
Affiliation Comp Sci&Tech (CST) Div / Data Science / Data Science
Funding Source High Energy Physics (HEP)
Proprietary? No
This publication conveys Technical Science Results
Document Numbers
JLAB Number: JLAB-CST-21-3606 OSTI Number: 1886597
LANL Number: Other Number: DOE/OR/23177-5611
Associated with an experiment No
Associated with EIC No
Supported by Jefferson Lab LDRD Funding No
Journal Article
Journal Name Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Refereed Yes
Volume 24
Issue
Page(s) 104601
Attachments/Datasets/DOI Link
Document(s)
PhysRevAccelBeams.24.104601.pdf (Accepted Manuscript)
DOI Link
Dataset(s) (none)
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