AUTOMATIC ERROR CORRECTION IN OPTICS MODELS USING A NEW METHOD FOR LOCALIZED COMPONENT CALIBRATION

This talk describes research on the development of a new prototype system for automatic component calibration and error correction of beamline optics models. The system analyzes orbit response data to decompose a beamline model into "good" and "bad" optics regions. Each "bad" region is then analyzed independently to correct quadrupole calibration errors within that region. We describe a new error correction procedure for regional component calibration that is used to drive this analysis. We also describe important challenges in automating component calibration and the methods we have developed for addressing these challenges. Finally, initial test results on simulated and real data from the SPEAR ring at SLAC are presented.