Multi-mode remote participation on the GOLEM tokamak

0367016 - ÚFP 2012 RIV CH eng J - Journal Article
Svoboda, V. - Huang, B. - Mlynář, Jan - Pokol, G.I. - Stöckel, Jan - Vondrášek, G.
Multi-mode remote participation on the GOLEM tokamak.
Fusion Engineering and Design. Roč. 86, 6-8 (2011), s. 1310-1314. ISSN 0920-3796. E-ISSN 1873-7196.
[Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT) /26th./. Porto, 27.09.2010-01.10.2010]
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z20430508
Keywords : Tokamak * remote participation * education
Subject RIV: BL - Plasma and Gas Discharge Physics
Impact factor: 1.490, year: 2011
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920379611002390

The GOLEM tokamak (formerly CASTOR) at Czech Technical University is demonstrated as an educational tokamak device for domestic and foreign students. Remote participation of several foreign universities (in Hungary, Belgium, Poland and Costa Rica) has been successfully performed. A unique feature of the GOLEM device is functionality which enables complete remote participation and control, solely through Internet access. Basic remote control is possible either in online mode via WWW/SSH interface or offline mode using batch processing code. Discharge parameters are set in each case to configure the tokamak for a plasma discharge. Using the X11 protocol it is possible to control in an advanced mode many technological aspects of the tokamak operation, including: i) vacuum pump initialization, ii) chamber baking, iii) charging of power supplies, iv) plasma discharge scenario, v) data acquisition system.
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