Microservice Capabilities for Experiment Design

Services for Experiment Design support development and refinement of experiment plans that are used by Experiment Control services to execute experiments on scientific instruments. Typical activities include creating and validating experiment plans, and refinement of existing plans based on objective-based analysis of prior experimental results or design space exploration criteria.

The Experiment Steering science use case design pattern is a form of experiment plan refinement that is limited to updating the test parameters of an existing plan. In contrast, the Design of Experiments science use case design pattern involves generating new experiment plans that may involve changes to test parameters, test sequencing, or the component tests of the plan.