XSC tools: A software suite for tokamak plasma shape control design and validation

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 709-723

  De Tommasi, Gianmaria ^a   Albanese, Raffaele ^a   Ambrosino, Giuseppe ^a   Ariola, Marco ^b   Mattei, Massimiliano ^c   Pironti, Alfredo ^a   Sartori, Filippo ^d   Villone, Fabio ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^d CULHAM SCIENCE CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Control system validation; Software tools; Tokamak control

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; TOKAMAK DEVICES;

CONTROL-SYSTEM VALIDATION; PLASMA SHAPE CONTROL DESIGN; PLASMA SHAPE CONTROLLER; TOKAMAK CONTROL;

PLASMA DEVICES;

EID: 34347382152     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2007.896989     Document Type: Article

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