First Steps Toward an Autonomous Accelerator, a Common Project Between DESY and KIT

Eichler, Annika; Bründermann, Erik; Burkart, Florian; Kaiser, Jan; Kuropka, Willi; Santamaria Garcia, Andrea; Stein, Oliver; Xu, Chenran

doi:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-TUPAB298

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@inproceedings{eichler:ipac2021-tupab298,
  author       = {A. Eichler and E. Bründermann and F. Burkart and J. Kaiser and W. Kuropka and A. Santamaria Garcia and O. Stein and C. Xu},
% author       = {A. Eichler and E. Bründermann and F. Burkart and J. Kaiser and W. Kuropka and A. Santamaria Garcia and others},
% author       = {A. Eichler and others},
  title        = {{First Steps Toward an Autonomous Accelerator, a Common Project Between DESY and KIT}},
  booktitle    = {Proc. IPAC'21},
  pages        = {2182--2185},
  eid          = {TUPAB298},
  language     = {english},
  keywords     = {electron, laser, controls, operation, simulation},
  venue        = {Campinas, SP, Brazil},
  series       = {International Particle Accelerator Conference},
  number       = {12},
  publisher    = {JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland},
  month        = {08},
  year         = {2021},
  issn         = {2673-5490},
  isbn         = {978-3-95450-214-1},
  doi          = {10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-TUPAB298},
  url          = {https://jacow.org/ipac2021/papers/tupab298.pdf},
  note         = {https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-TUPAB298},
  abstract     = {{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.}},
}