10–15 Aug 2025
SAFE Credit Union Convention Center
America/Los_Angeles timezone

Safe extremum seeking for real-time adaptive accelerator control

WEYN02
13 Aug 2025, 11:30
30m
Parallel Session #2 (SAFE Credit Union Convention Center)

Parallel Session #2

SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

Invited Oral Presentation MC6 - Beam Instrumentation, Controls, AI/ML, and Operational Aspects Beam Instrumentation, Controls, AI/ML, and Operational Aspects (Invited)

Speaker

Alan Williams (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Description

This talk presents Safe Extremum Seeking (Safe ES), a robust n-dimensional adaptive control method, applied to automatic tuning and optimization tasks of accelerators while guaranteeing that the system remains within safe operating conditions. A key strength of Safe ES is its ability to handle safety measures that are analytically unknown. For instance, the algorithm can adaptively tune quadrupole magnets to achieve a desired beam profile while maintaining safety by keeping beam losses below a user-defined threshold.

The presentation provides a comprehensive technical overview of this optimization technique, highlighting its theoretical foundations and practical applications. It includes simulation studies demonstrating its effectiveness for accelerator systems, as well as results from an in-hardware demonstration conducted on the LANSCE accelerator at LANL. Also, the talk explores how Safe ES can be integrated with generative machine learning models to enable adaptive machine learning.

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Authors

Alan Williams (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Alexander Scheinker (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

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