Optimal tracking control of current profile in tokamaks

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 432-441

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

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

^b GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^c SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bilinear optimal tracking control; Distributed parameter systems; Proper orthogonal decomposition (POD); Tokamak plasma control

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; MAGNETOPLASMA; NAVIGATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PLASMA THEORY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TOKAMAK DEVICES;

CYLINDRICAL COORDINATES; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL CONTROL COMPUTATION; OPTIMAL TRACKING CONTROL; PARABOLIC PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROPER ORTHOGONAL DECOMPOSITIONS; STEADY-STATE OPERATION; TOKAMAK PLASMAS;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 85027917606     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2010.2046640     Document Type: Article

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