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The tele-operated transfer cask is required for maintenance in nuclear fusion environment. A type of the transfer cask system, namely TECA (Tokamak Equipment CAsk) is designed for Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST). The whole TECA system schemes, composed of the Air Cushion Vehicle (ACV), the Docking Pallet (DP), and the Conservation Cask (CC), are designed, and the prototype is accomplished. The motion and control of the ACV, the DP, and the DSD are detailedly analyzed. The motion control experiments validate the TECA applicable.
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This research work was supported by the China National Magnetic-Confinement Fusion Energy R&D Program (ITER) and funded by the National Science and Technology Major Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2012GB102002, No.2012GB102007) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grant No.61503361, The natural science foundation of Anhui Province 1308085MF86. The authors wish to thank the research group for their great contributions to the presented research. The views and opinions expressed in this paper are the sole responsibility of the authors.
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Gao, L. et al. (2017). Research on the Tokamak Equipment CAsk (TECA) for Remote Handling in Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST). In: Chen, W., Hosoda, K., Menegatti, E., Shimizu, M., Wang, H. (eds) Intelligent Autonomous Systems 14. IAS 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 531. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48036-7_77
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