TCV Advanced Plasma Control System Software Architecture and Results

Author

Rodrigues, A.P. ; Cruz, N. ; Santos, B. ; Varandas, C.A.F. ; Duval, B. ; Moret, J.M. ; Berrino, J.

Author_Institution

Inst. Super. Tecnico, Lisbon

fYear

2007

fDate

April 29 2007-May 4 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

A new advanced plasma control system for the TCV tokamak has been implemented based on an in-house developed high performance DSPs-based VME system, specially designed for real-time plasma control and event detection on fusion experiments. This paper describes the software architecture of the digital system as well as the integration of the physicists control algorithms in the DSPs software. The integration conditions on the TCV control system and the first results of the real-time control operation are also presented. Finally, a critical analysis of the system performance and the experimental operation of TCV APCS is discussed.

Keywords

Tokamak devices; nuclear engineering computing; signal processing; software architecture; DSPs-based VME system; TCV advanced plasma control system; Tokamak a Configuration Variable; critical analysis; digital system; integration conditions; physicists control algorithms; software architecture; Computer architecture; Control systems; Digital systems; Event detection; Plasmas; Real time systems; Software algorithms; Software architecture; System software; Tokamaks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real-Time Conference, 2007 15th IEEE-NPSS

Conference_Location

Batavia, IL

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0866-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0867-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTC.2007.4382829

Filename

4382829