Pfeiffer, SvenSvenPfeifferWerner, HerbertHerbertWernerSchmidt, ChristianChristianSchmidtSchlarb, HolgerHolgerSchlarb2020-10-132020-10-1320132013 American Control Conference (ACC 2013) : Washington, DC, USA, 17 - 19 June 2013 / [American Automatic Control Council (AACC)]. - Piscataway, NJ : IEEE. - Vol. 8 (2013), Artikel-Nr. 6580867, i.e. Seite 6553-6558http://hdl.handle.net/11420/7559In this paper, a distributed controller design is proposed for a linear accelerator such as the European XFEL. The linear accelerator is modeled as a chain of 25 subsystems, each representing one of the 25 radio frequency stations which form the XFEL plant. A distributed control scheme is presented that exploits the interaction between neighboring stations. A local controller is attached to each station; these local controllers exchange information with neighboring controllers, in order to reduce the error in beam energy at a given station by coordinated control action across neighboring stations. A recently developed framework for distributed control of spatially interconnected systems is employed to design the distributed controllers in a H-infinity mixed sensitivity approach. Simulation studies indicate a significant improvement in performance when the proposed control scheme is applied. © 2013 AACC American Automatic Control Council.enTechnikIngenieurwissenschaftenConference Paper10.1109/acc.2013.6580867Other