Closed-Loop System Identification and Controller Reconfiguration for EXTRAP T2R Reversed-Field Pinch

• We first briefly summarize a supposedly efficient novel method for measuring the external plasma response as applied to the inherently unstable reversed-field pinch EXTRAP T2R. Second, the set of parameters estimated with this particular method is harvested and fed as input to a discrete-time fixed-order fast-Fourier-transform-decoupled multi-input-multioutput controller synthesis. The thus reconfigured feedback system is implemented and experimentally tested on the real plant T2R. The recorded first-deployment results are encouraging. The overall methodology followed throughout this paper is emphasized and strongly exemplifies applied process control thinking for the stabilization of magnetically confined toroidal plasmas.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Fusion, plasma och rymdfysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Fusion, Plasma and Space Physics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Magnetic confinement fusion

plasma control

system identification

Geocosmophysics and plasma physics

Geokosmofysik och plasmafysik

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ref (subject category)

art (subject category)