The COMPASS Tokamak Plasma Control Software Performance

0363819 - ÚFP 2012 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Valcárcel, D.F. - Neto, A. - Carvalho, I.S. - Carvalho, B.B. - Fernandes, H. - Sousa, J. - Janky, F. - Havlíček, Josef - Beňo, R. - Horáček, Jan - Hron, Martin - Pánek, Radomír
The COMPASS Tokamak Plasma Control Software Performance.
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. Roč. 58, č. 4 (2011), s. 1490-1496. ISSN 0018-9499. E-ISSN 1558-1578.
[Real Time Conference, RT10/17th./. Lisboa, 24.05.2010-28.05.2010]
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT 7G09042; GA ČR GD202/08/H057
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z20430508
Keywords : Real-Time * ATCA * Data Acquisition * Plasma Control Software
Subject RIV: BL - Plasma and Gas Discharge Physics
Impact factor: 1.447, year: 2011
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2011.2143726

The COMPASS tokamak has began operation at the IPP Prague in December 2008. A new control system has been built using an ATCA-based real-time system developed at IST Lisbon. The control software is implemented on top of the MARTe real-time framework attaining control cycles as short as 0.05ms, with a jitter of less than 1s. The controlled parameters, important for the plasma performance, are the plasma current, position of the plasma current center, boundary shape and horizontal and vertical velocities. This paper presents the design and overall performance of the COMPASS control software.
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