Plasma position and current control management at JET

Author

Cenedese, Angela ; Sartori, Filippo

Volume

5

fYear

2003

fDate

9-12 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

4628

Abstract

PPCC is hybrid group of interacting controllers managed through a decision-making logic. After nine years of successfully controlling the plasma in all JET experiments, it is being overhauled to integrate the new full boundary controller "Extreme Shape Controller". The difficult integration issues have spawn a re-evaluation of the overall management strategy of the many control abilities provided by PPCC. The aim of this paper is to describe the complex real-time decision logic implemented in PPCC and to explain how it has been shaped by the needs of JET plant. Furthermore, it will focus on the changes necessary to integrate the new component.

Keywords

Tokamak devices; controllers; decision making; plasma heating; plasma instability; plasma toroidal confinement; shape control; user interfaces; JET; decision making logic; extreme shape controller; joint European torus; plasma heating; plasma position and current control management; plasma shaping; real time decision logic; user interface; vertical stabilisation; Control systems; Current control; Logic; Magnetic confinement; Plasma confinement; Plasma devices; Plasma properties; Plasma stability; Shape control; Tokamaks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Decision and Control, 2003. Proceedings. 42nd IEEE Conference on

ISSN

0191-2216

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7924-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDC.2003.1272293

Filename

1272293