MECAR (Main Ring Excitation Controller And Regulator): a real time learning regulator for the Fermilab Main Ring or the Main Injector synchrotron
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Flora, R.; Martin, K.; Moibenko, A.; Pfeffer, H.; Wolff, D.; Prieto, P.; Hays, S.
- Source
- Proceedings Particle Accelerator Conference Particle accelerators Particle Accelerator Conference, 1995., Proceedings of the 1995. 4:2172-2174 vol.4 1995
- Subject
- Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Nuclear Engineering
Robotics and Control Systems
Regulators
Power supplies
Control systems
Hardware
Synchrotrons
Real time systems
Finite impulse response filter
Particle beams
Production
Pulse power systems
- Language
The real-time computer for controlling and regulating the FNAL (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) Main Ring power supplies has been upgraded with a new learning control system. The learning time of the system has been reduced by an order of magnitude, mostly through the implementation of a 95-tap FIR filter in the learning algorithm. The magnet system consists of three buses, which must track each other during a ramp from 100 to 1700 A at a 2.4 s repetition rate. This paper presents the system configuration and the tools used during development and testing.