Author/Authors :
De Tommasi، نويسنده , , G. and Galeani، نويسنده , , S. and Jachmich، نويسنده , , S. and Joffrin، نويسنده , , E. and Lennholm، نويسنده , , M. and Lomas، نويسنده , , P.J. and Neto، نويسنده , , A.C. and Maviglia، نويسنده , , F. and McCullen، نويسنده , , P. and Pironti، نويسنده , , A. and Rimini، نويسنده , , F.G. and Sips، نويسنده , , A.C.C. and Varano، نويسنده , , G. and Vitelli، نويسنده , , Andrew R. and Zaccarian، نويسنده , , L.، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
The Current Limit Avoidance System (CLA) has been recently deployed at the JET tokamak to avoid current saturations in the poloidal field (PF) coils when the eXtreme Shape Controller is used to control the plasma shape. In order to cope with the current saturation limits, the CLA exploits the redundancy of the PF coils system to automatically obtain almost the same plasma shape using a different combination of currents in the PF coils. In the presence of disturbances it tries to avoid the current saturations by relaxing the constraints on the plasma shape control. The CLA system has been successfully implemented on the JET tokamak and fully commissioned in 2011. This paper presents the first experimental results achieved in 2011–2012 during the restart and the ITER-like wall campaigns at JET.
