17–22 May 2026
C.I.D
Europe/Zurich timezone

Ariel: Agentic retrieval interface for electronic logbooks

MOP6326
18 May 2026, 16:00
2h
C.I.D

C.I.D

Deauville, France
Board: Monday wine: WA25
Poster Presentation MC6.D13: Instrumentation: Artificial Intelligence Poster session

Speaker

Thorsten Hellert (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Description

Operational logbooks are essential for documenting accelerator performance, interventions, and operator experience, but their content is often inconsistent, unstructured, and difficult to search. This limits both human retrieval and the use of AI systems that rely on high-quality historical data. Project ARIEL (Agentic Retrieval Interface for Electronic Logbooks) introduces a modular, facility-agnostic framework that standardizes how logbook information is ingested, enriched, and searched across accelerator laboratories. Each participating site hosts its own ARIEL database while adopting a shared schema, data-enhancement modules, and interoperable search components. Enhancement modules provide semantic metadata, text and figure embeddings, and optional machine-state snapshots at ingestion time. On the retrieval side, ARIEL supports keyword, embedding-based, multimodal, and machine-state search, forming a unified foundation for an agentic retrieval layer capable of orchestrating multiple search strategies. This contribution presents the architecture, schema design, and early cross-facility prototypes, and describes how ARIEL fits into the broader DOE Genesis AI mission to establish shared, interoperable AI infrastructure for accelerator facilities.

Paper status Resubmitted proceeding files received and assigned to an editor. Accepted by Submitter.

Author

Thorsten Hellert (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Co-authors

Antonin Sulc (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Chris Tennant (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility) Gianluca Martino (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Hayden Hoschauer (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) Kirk Iliev (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

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