Modern plasma controller tested on the TCV tokamak

Fusion Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 126-138

  Ariola, Marco ^a   Ambrosino, Giuseppe ^a   Lister, Jonathan B ^b   Pironti, Alfredo ^a   Villone, Fabio ^c   Vyas, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

DIGITAL PROCESSOR; PLASMA CONTROLLER; PLASMA CURRENT; TOKAMAK CONFIGURATION VARIABLE;

TOKAMAK DEVICES;

EID: 0032590955     PISSN: 07481896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/FST99-A97     Document Type: Article

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