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Real time magnetic control of the snowflake plasma configuration in the TCV tokamak

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Development of statistical analysis tools for global observable of fluctuation data towards optimised real-time control applications

Garance Hélène Salomé Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud

The StatComp package is a Matlab statistical toolbox developed over the years by Dr. Testa and his students. It has been inspired by M. R. Brown’s paper Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence: Observation and experiment [2]. It first performed the analysis of the ...

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Magnetic control of tokamak plasmas through deep reinforcement learning

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Jean-Marc Moret, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Cristian Sommariva, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Cristian Galperti, Francesco Carpanese, Jonas Buchli, Federico Pesamosca, Brendan Tracey, Jonas Degrave

Nuclear fusion using magnetic confinement, in particular in the tokamak configuration, is a promising path towards sustainable energy. A core challenge is to shape and maintain a high-temperature plasma within the tokamak vessel. This requires high-dimensi ...

2022

The overall performance of a tokamak strongly depends on phenomena that take place in a thin region between the main plasma and the vessel wall, which is denoted as tokamak boundary. In fact, the formation of transport barriers in this region can significa ...

EPFL2022

Thermonuclear controlled fusion is a promising answer to the current energy and climate issues, providing a safe carbon-free source of energy which is virtually inexhaustible. In magnetic confinement thermonuclear fusion based on tokamak reactors, hydrogen ...

EPFL2021

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The invention concerns a method of performing automatic standing balance of a user in a full mobilization exoskeleton with at least a foot and using at least two actuated degrees of freedom, wherein a controller uses information provided from sensors to pr ...

2021

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A key feature of the new digital plasma control system installed on the TCV (Tokamak à Configuration Variable) tokamak is its possibility to rapidly design, test and deploy real-time algorithms. It accommodates hundreds of diagnostic inputs and actuator ou ...

2017

The potential of nuclear fusion to provide a practically inexhaustible source of energy has motivated scientists to work towards developing nuclear fusion tokamak power plants. Stable operation of a tokamak at high performance requires simultaneous treatme ...

EPFL2017

A novel plasma position and shape controller for advanced configuration development on the TCV tokamak

Stefano Coda, Jean-Marc Moret, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Cristian Galperti, Himank Anand

A novel plasma position and shape controller has been developed for the highly flexible shaping poloidal-field coil set of the TCV tokamak, to aid in the precise control of advanced configurations such as negative-triangularity plasmas, snowflake and super ...

2017

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The successful performance of a model predictive profile controller is demonstrated in simulations and experiments on the TCV tokamak, employing a profile controller test environment. Stable high-performance tokamak operation in hybrid and advanced plasma ...

2017

Controlled thermonuclear fusion is the main goal of plasma physics. At the Swiss Plasma Center, the Tokamak `a Configuration Variable (TCV) constitutes the main experiment on fusion research, where high temperature plasmas are confined by means of magneti ...

EPFL2017