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Hierarchical robust systems for magnetic plasma control in tokamaks with adaptation

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We consider synthesis and modeling of hierarchical robust magnetic control systems for plasma in tokamaks with adaptation of the magnetic axis’ vertical position. The studies were done for ITER (Cadarache, France) and Globus-M (St. Petersburg, Russia) tokamaks. Our original synthesis method ensures an improvement in performance for the shape of the plasma by resolving the contradiction between position and plasma shape via adaptation in a hierarchical system. Numerical modeling of synthesized control systems on multivariable linear models of plasma and nonlinear plasma-physics code DINA that unites basic equations of plasma dynamics in a magnetic field has shown the efficiency of the proposed approach and a possibility to apply it in a physical experiment.

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  1. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    N. M. Kartsev & Yu. V. Mitrishkin

  2. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    Yu. V. Mitrishkin

  3. Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

    M. I. Patrov

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Original Russian Text © N.M. Kartsev, Yu.V. Mitrishkin, M.I. Patrov, 2017, published in Avtomatika i Telemekhanika, 2017, No. 4, pp. 149–165.

This paper was recommended for publication by N.N. Bakhtadze, a member of the Editorial Board

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Kartsev, N.M., Mitrishkin, Y.V. & Patrov, M.I. Hierarchical robust systems for magnetic plasma control in tokamaks with adaptation. Autom Remote Control 78, 700–713 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0005117917040117

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