Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-1-2011

Publication Title

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A

Abstract

Superconducting RF (SRF) cavities are key components of modern linear particle accelerators. The National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) is building a 3 MeV/u re-accelerator (ReA3) using SRF cavities. Lightly loaded SRF cavities have very small bandwidths (high Q) making them very sensitive to mechanical perturbations whether external or self-induced. Additionally, some cavity types exhibit mechanical responses to perturbations that lead to high-order non-stationary transfer functions resulting in very complex control problems. A control system that can adapt to the changing perturbing conditions and transfer functions of these systems would be ideal. This paper describes the application of a control technique known as “Active Disturbance Rejection Control” (ARDC) to this problem.

Comments

This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant no. PHY-06-06007.

Original Citation

J. Vincent, D. Morris, N. Usher, Z. Gao, S. Zhao, A. Nicoletti and Q. Zheng, "On active disturbance rejection based control design for superconducting RF cavities," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 643, pp. 11-16, 7/1, 2011.

DOI

10.1016/j.nima.2011.04.033

Version

Postprint

Volume

643

Issue

1

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