Maximization of the lower hybrid power coupling in the Frascati Tokamak Upgrade via extremum seeking

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1468-1478

  Centioli, C ^a   Iannone, F ^a   Mazza, G ^a   Panella, M ^a   Pangione, L ^b   Podda, S ^a   Tuccillo, A ^a   Vitale, V ^a   Zaccarian, L ^b  

^a ASSOCIAZIONE EURATOM ENEA SULLA FUSIONE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Extremum seeking; FTU experiments; Lower Hybrid waves; Plasma control system; Real time control; RF power

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; FUSION REACTIONS; FUSION REACTORS; MODERNIZATION; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANT SHUTDOWNS; PLASMA CONFINEMENT;

ANTENNA STRUCTURES; CLOSED LOOPS; EXPERIMENTAL FACILITY; EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL TESTING; EXTREMUM SEEKING; FRASCATI TOKAMAK UPGRADE; FTU EXPERIMENTS; LOWER HYBRID; LOWER HYBRID POWER; LOWER HYBRID WAVES; PLASMA CONTROL SYSTEM; RADIO-FREQUENCY POWER; REAL TIME; REAL-TIME CONTROL; REFLECTED POWER; RF POWER; SIMULATION RESULTS;

PLASMAS;

EID: 50649084533     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2008.04.008     Document Type: Article

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