New developments for real time plasma control system of TCV Tokamak based on FPGA

Author

Hoang-Bao Le ; Duval, Basil P. ; Moret, Jean-Marc ; Cruz, N.

Author_Institution

Centre de Rech. en Phys. des Plasmas, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

The vertical instability problem of highly-elongated plasmas has been investigated. A reduced-order model for control purpose has been derived from the full-order plasma RZIP model. Based on reduced model, an optimal control has been designed which gives better performance than a legacy PID control in the presence of measurement noise. The control algorithm is programmed in user-friendly Matlab-Simulink environment. The VHDL code is generated automatically with HDL coder. The control algorithm has been implemented into a COTS FPGA-based system. Hardware in the loop simulation has been performed to test the algorithm in the real world.

Keywords

Tokamak devices; field programmable gate arrays; hardware description languages; optimal control; reduced order systems; three-term control; COTS FPGA-based system; FPGA; TCV Tokamak; VHDL code; full-order plasma RZIP model; highly-elongated plasmas; legacy PID control; measurement noise; optimal control; real time plasma control system; reduced-order model; user-friendly Matlab-Simulink environment; vertical instability problem; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Mathematical model; Optimal control; Software packages; Tokamaks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real Time Conference (RT), 2014 19th IEEE-NPSS

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3658-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTC.2014.7097426

Filename

7097426