4. Particle gas pedal applications

One of the well-identified corollaries of the increasing power of new experimental facilities based on particle gas pedals is now the need to use teleoperation techniques:

• in nominal operation for target replacement,

• for maintenance or machine reconfiguration.

While one of the strong points in the design of gas pedals has always been that maintenance can be carried out manually a few days after the beam has been stopped, changes in regulatory constraints, the increase in machine power and the ever-increasing operating constraints on the facility mean that this criterion can no longer be met to the letter.

The majority of robotic and teleoperation equipment is typically located at the target of the installation. This is the case for the ISOLDE experiment...