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High precision temperature control of injector components like the RF GUN is necessary to optimally accelerate thousands of electrons within the injection part of the European X-ray free-electron laser XFEL and the Free Electron Laser FLASH. A difference of the RF GUN temperature from the reference value of only 0.01 K leads to detuning of the cavity and thus limits the performance of the whole facility. Especially in steady-state operation there are some undesired temperature oscillations when using classical standard control techniques like PID control. That is why a model based approach is applied here to design the RF GUN temperature controller for the free-electron lasers. Therefore a nonlinear thermal model of the RF GUN and the cooling facility is derived based on heat balances, considering the heat dissipation of the Low-Level RF power. The derived model is used for a linear model predictive controller design in MATLAB/Simulink. A test of the controller in simulation shows promising results.
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Kruppa, K. et al. (2016). High Precision Temperature Control for Injector Components of a Free-Electron Laser. In: Obaidat, M., Kacprzyk, J., Ören, T., Filipe, J. (eds) Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 442. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31295-8_8
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