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On Active Disturbance Rejection Based Control Design For Superconducting Rf Cavities, John Vincent, Dan Morris, Nathan Usher, Zhiqiang Gao, Shen Zhaob, Achille Nicoletti, Qinling Zheng
On Active Disturbance Rejection Based Control Design For Superconducting Rf Cavities, John Vincent, Dan Morris, Nathan Usher, Zhiqiang Gao, Shen Zhaob, Achille Nicoletti, Qinling Zheng
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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 …