Multimodal characterization is commonly required for understanding materials.
User facilities possess the infrastructure to perform these measurements,
albeit in serial over days to months. In this paper, we describe a unified
multimodal measurement of a single sample library at distant instruments,
driven by a concert of distributed agents that use analysis from each modality
to inform the direction of the other in real time. Powered by the Bluesky
project at the National Synchrotron Light Source II, this experiment is a
world's first for beamline science, and provides a blueprint for future
approaches to multimodal and multifidelity experiments at user facilities.Comment: 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS
2022). AI4Mat Worksho