Architecture and commissioning of the TCV distributed feedback control system

Author

Paley, J.I. ; Coda, S. ; Duval, B. ; Felici, F. ; Moret, J.-M.

Author_Institution

Centre de Recherches en Phys. des Plasmas, Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

2010

fDate

24-28 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

A new modular, digital, distributed feedback control system has been developed and installed to control the TCV plasma. With many more inputs and outputs, it provides the possibility to build control algorithms using far more information on the plasma state than previously possible as well as the ability to control many more actuators, including the multi-megawatt, multi-launcher electron cyclotron heating and current drive system. This paper provides an overview of the new control system, its integration into the TCV systems and its successful application to control the TCV plasma discharge.

Keywords

Tokamak devices; actuators; digital control; distributed control; feedback; plasma radiofrequency heating; plasma toroidal confinement; plasma transport processes; TCV distributed feedback control system; TCV plasma discharge; actuators; current drive system; multilauncher electron cyclotron heating; Actuators; Coils; Plasmas; Power supplies; Radiation detectors; Real time systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real Time Conference (RT), 2010 17th IEEE-NPSS

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7108-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTC.2010.5750487

Filename

5750487