Shape Control in Tokamaks
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چکیده
The need of achieving always better performance in present and future tokamak devices has pushed plasma control to gain more and more importance in tokamak engineering. When high performance and robustness are required, it is essential to adopt a model-based approach to design a control system. In this paper we introduce the basics of plasma current, shape position control in tokamaks. As example, the plasma magnetic control systems of the JET tokamak will be presented, together with an approach proposed for plasma current, position and shape control at the ITER tokamak.
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