Badger: The Missing Optimizer in ACR
Z. Zhang, Böse, Michael, Auralee L. Edelen, Jacqueline Garrahan, Y. Hidaka, Christopher Mayes, Sara Miskovich, Daniel F. Ratner, Ryan Roussel, J. Shtalenkova, Sergey Tomin, G. M. Wang · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 2022
Badger is an optimizer specifically designed for Accelerator Control Room (ACR). It’s the spiritual successor of Ocelot optimizer. Badger abstracts an optimization run as an optimization algorithm interacts with an environment, by following some pre-defined rules. The environment is controlled by the algorithm and tunes/observes the control system/machine through an interface, while the users control/monitor the optimization flow through a graphical user interface (GUI) or a command line interface (CLI). This paper would introduce the design principles and applications of Badger.