TCV Advanced Plasma Control System Software Architecture and Preliminary Results

Author

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

Author_Institution

Inst. Super. Tecnico, Lisbon

Volume

55

Issue

1

fYear

2008

Firstpage

316

Lastpage

321

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; data acquisition; plasma toroidal confinement; signal processing; TCV Tokamak; VME system; advanced plasma control system software architecture; data acquisition; digital signal processing; fusion experiments; real-time plasma control; Computer architecture; Control systems; Digital systems; Event detection; Plasmas; Real time systems; Software algorithms; Software architecture; System software; Tokamaks; Nuclear fusion; real-time data acquisition and control; real-time digital signal processing; real-time feedback control; real-time feedforward control; real-time parallel processing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2007.913493

Filename

4448528