A control scheme to deal with coil current saturation in a Tokamak

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 831-838

  Ambrosino, Giuseppe ^a   Ariola, Marco ^a   Pironti, Alfredo ^a   Portone, Alfredo ^b   Walker, Mike ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b EFDA CLOSE SUPPORT UNIT   (Germany)

^c GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Control engineering; Control under saturation; Fusion reactors; H control; Plasma control

Indexed keywords

CONTROL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRIC COILS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; TOKAMAK DEVICES;

COIL CURRENT SATURATION; CONTROL ENGINEERING; PLASMA CONTROL;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035506763     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/87.960346     Document Type: Article

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