Distributed real-time system for event-driven control and dynamic data acquisition on a fusion plasma experiment

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 31-36

  Sousa, J ^a   Combo, A ^a   Batista, A ^a   Correia, M ^a   Trotman, D ^b   Waterhouse, J ^b   Varandas, C A F ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b CULHAM SCIENCE CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; PROCESS CONTROL; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT FUSION;

FUSION REACTIONS;

EID: 0034247135     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-3796(00)00123-X     Document Type: Article

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