Extremum-seeking finite-time optimal control of plasma current profile at the DIII-D tokamak

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4015-4020

  Ou, Y ^a   Xu, C ^a   Schuster, E ^a   Luce, T C ^b   Ferron, J R ^b   Walker, M L ^b  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

^b GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; CONTROL THEORY; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; FUSION REACTIONS; FUSION REACTORS; INTERSECTIONS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MILITARY DATA PROCESSING; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PLASMAS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TOKAMAK DEVICES;

CONTROL PROBLEMS; CURRENT PROFILING; CYLINDRICAL COORDINATES; DIII D TOKAMAKS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER SYSTEM (DPS); EVOLUTION (CO); EXTREMUM SEEKING; FINITE TIME OPTIMAL CONTROL; MAGNETIC DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC FUSION; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC (MHD); OPEN LOOPS; OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEM (OCP); PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION (PDE); PLASMA CURRENT PROFILE; PLASMA CURRENTS; PLASMA PRESSURES; POLOIDAL FLUX; SIMULATION RESULTS; STEADY STATE OPERATIONS;

PLASMA STABILITY;

EID: 39549105440     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2007.4283102     Document Type: Conference Paper

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