Overview

This page summarizes the design & implementation of the interface between the live FACET-II controls system and the FACET2E Bmad model. The infrastructure consists of two layers:

• BmadLiveModel: a python class responsible for watching the accelerator and updating a live instance of PyTao based on extant machine settings
• The live model PVA service: a process that runs it's own BmadLiveModel and publishes data to table PVs

BmadLiveModel

The goal of this class is to provide access to an instance of Tao that can view/manipulate the FACET2 Bmad model with settings that match those of the actual production accelerator.

Device Monitoring

Connection to the production controls system is handled mainly via EPICS Channel Access PVs (as well as limited use of AIDA-PVA for klystron timing statuses). During real-time updating, there are three "watcher" daemon threads that monitor extant machine settings. Each thread will submit instructions for updates to the simulation to one of two shared update queues.

acc1-watcher and acc2-watcher

These are the main passive device monitoring threads. acc1 is responsible for monitoring all quadrupole magnets in the accelerator, while acc2 id responsible for monitoring dipoles, sextupoles and other miscellaneous devices.

LEM

LEM (LINAC energy management) is a set of algorithms responsible for estimating the beam momentum profile and calculating the corresponding lattice quad settings. This code only calculates the momentum profile, errors and magnet settings. Actually setting magnets in the accelerator will be handled by a LEM server GUI (coming soon...).

• BmadLiveModel will monitors the klystron complement and bend magnet settings to calculate the live momentum profile of the beam
• Periodically, the server will use the live momentum profile to calculate energy errors and magnet settings, which are published to a table PV

Detailed overview of LEM implementation: LEM_notes-3.pdf

LEM-watcher

Daemon thread spawned by BmadLiveModel, responsible for calculating the live beam momentum profile as described below, and for submitting update requests for cavity voltages and phases to the command queue, as well as linac amplitude, chirp and fudge values

PyTao updates

The BmadLiveModel python class loads the FACET2E lattice and runs a local copy of pytao.Tao. This instance of tao is both the engine used by the class to update the live lattice, as well as a part of the public interface of the code. BmadLiveModel.tao is a publicly accessible attribute of the class itself

model-update

This thread is responsible for executing all the submitted update requests using Tao, and for updating derived quantities (BLEM) and python data structures.

1. empty the device update queue of (approximately*) all submitted updates
2. run all the set ele commands, then re-calculate lattice parameters
3. update the live.p0c, live.e_tot, live.twiss, live.quads, live.bends, live.rf data structures
4. empty the LEM update queue and set the live.LEM amplitude, chirp and fudge values

PVA model server(s)

The principal use case for the BmadLiveModel is running a real-time live model server. This server runs its own BmadLiveModel, and then publishes live model data to scalar and table PVs accessible on the controls system via EPICS PVAccess. The code for the live model itself is relatively simple, and is derived from the lcls_live_model server.

For performance, there are actually two production services. Both recalculate and update PVs once per second.

• Model Server 1: This server is responsible for updating live twiss parameters and LEM data.
• Model Server 2: This service is responsible for publishing R matrices

Access to the live Bmad model server (for twiss/rmat data), is mediated by the python meme service

Implementation: F2_live_model code

The code for all the infrastructure described in this document lives together. Source code can be viewed on GitHub, and API documentation is available online.

• SLAC network master repository: /afs/slac/g/cd/swe/git/repos/slac/FACET/F2_live_model.git
• Production deployment: /usr/local/tools/python/F2_live_model
• GitHub mirror: F2_live_model.git
• The public interface to the code is documented here: f2-live-model.readthedocs.io/

Details

Model server data description

Additionally, the service will publish scalar PVs of the estimated linac amplitudes/chirps/fudges by calculated by LEM. Their names are as follows:

• BMAD:SYS0:1:FACET2E:LEM:<XX>_FUDGE
• BMAD:SYS0:1:FACET2E:LEM:<XX>_AMPL
• BMAD:SYS0:1:FACET2E:LEM:<XX>_CHIRP

where <XX> is a "LEM region", either L0, L1, L2 or L3, for a total of an additional 12 PVs. (ex: BMAD:SYS0:1:FACET2E:LEM:L2_FUDGE). There is an additional read/write PV: BMAD:SYS0:1:FACET2E:LEM:PROFILE which stores the last known extant momentum profile to which current rf settings are compared. 

Dependencies

• numpy, scipy
• pyEPICS
• p4p
• Bmad + Tao
• Pytao
• facet2-lattice
• The live model needs to run on the production network (primarily on facet-srv02)

Source file descriptions