Application of an adaptive algorithm to the control of the plasma vertical position

Fusion Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 139-164

  Scibile, Luigi ^a,c   Kouvaritakis, Basil ^b  

^a CULHAM SCIENCE CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; PLASMA STABILITY; POSITION CONTROL; THYRISTORS; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

DISCRETE ADAPTIVE NEAR TIME OPTIMUM CONTROL ALGORITHM; EDGE LOCALIZED MODES; PLASMA VERTICAL POSITION;

TOKAMAK DEVICES;

EID: 0032590970     PISSN: 07481896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/FST99-A98     Document Type: Article

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