FASTBUS for the Particle Accelerator Laboratories

Multi-agent Cooperation for Particle Accelerator Control

We present practical investigations in a real industrial controls environment for justifying theoretical DAI (Distributed Artificial Intelligence) results, and we discuss theoretical aspects of practical investigations for accelerator control and operation. A generalized hypothesis is introduced, based on a unified view of control, monitoring, diagnosis, maintenance and repair tasks leading to ...

Applicability of the Fastbus Standard

The new FASTBUS standard has been designed to provide a framework for distributed processing in both experimental data acquisition and accelerator control. The features of FASTBUS which support distributed control are a priority arbitration scheme which allows intercrate as well as intracrate message flow between processors and slave devices; and a high bandwidth to permit efficient sharing of ...

Fastbus at the Front End

It is this author's view that we are in an era of great change in electronic equipment for high energy physics. Microprocessors and their cousins, the smart controllers, being incorporated in many designs. We are also now seeing devices such as FPLA's, PAL'S, etc. becoming larger, faster, and more useful in replacing large amounts of "discrete" logic. On our doorstep are gate-arrays of all type...

The UCLA Compact High Brightness Electron Accelerator - Particle Accelerator Conference, 1995., Proceedings of the 1995

We report the characteristics and performance of the UCLA S-band compact electron accelerator, consisting of a high brightness, 8 cm long, photo-injector with a copper cathode, followed by a 42 cm long plane wave transformer accelerating structure, delivering a beam energy of 10 MeV. The photo-electrons are produced by a 266 nm laser pulse of less than 4 ps in duration. Over time the laser indu...

(1) an Introduction to the Fastbus’