Emerging Applications in Tokamak Plasma Control: Control solutions for next generation tokamaks

M.L. Walker, D.A. Humphreys, D. Mazon, D. Moreau, M. Okabayashi, T.H. Osborne, E. Schuster

IEEE Control System Magazine, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 35-63, 2006

Abstract

Solutions for many tokamak control problems are important for continuing progress toward producing energy from fusion. Areas of development include basic physics, development and modeling of actuators and sensors for control, experimental use of initial simple controllers, and the development of sophisticated control algorithms. In this article, we review several tokamak plasma control problems and describe progress achieved at tokamak devices around the world.