Comprehensive feedback control of a tokamak fusion reactor

Fusion Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 390-403

  Firestone, Marc A ^a,c,d   Morrow Jones, Jonathan W ^a,e,f   Mau, Tak Kuen ^b,g,h,i  

^a EBU II ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d Von Haenel and Associates   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f TITAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

ⁱ ARIES Power Plant Study Project

Author keywords

Optimal control; Plasma control; Tokamak

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC COILS; EXPERIMENTAL REACTORS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; INTEGRATED CONTROL; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

BURNING PLASMA EXPERIMENT (BPX) DESIGN; INTERNATIONAL THERMONUCLEAR EXPERIMENTAL REACTOR (ITER); POLOIDAL FIELD COILS;

TOKAMAK DEVICES;

EID: 0031276064     PISSN: 07481896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/FST97-A3     Document Type: Article

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