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Plasma Shape Control for ITER

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Magnetic Control of Tokamak Plasmas

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In this chapter, we show that the configuration of the ITER tokamak enables the design of a low-order controller based on the fact that the vertical position control and the plasma current and shape control can be performed on different time scales.

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Ariola, M., Pironti, A. (2016). Plasma Shape Control for ITER. In: Magnetic Control of Tokamak Plasmas. Advances in Industrial Control. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29890-0_8

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