A discrete adaptive near-time optimum control for the plasma vertical position in a Tokamak

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 148-162

  Scibile, Luigi ^a   Kouvaritakis, Basil ^b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive; Control; Plasma; Stabilization; Tokamak; Unstable

Indexed keywords

EDGE LOCALIZED MODES (ELM); PLASMA VERTICAL POSITION;

ALGORITHMS; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; PLASMA STABILITY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TOKAMAK DEVICES;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035112221     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/87.896756     Document Type: Article

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