conference paper
Dynamic steady-state coil current allocation for plasma shape control: A study on the TCV tokamak
2024
10th 2024 International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies, CoDIT 2024
This work addresses the input current allocation problem for the magnetic control system of the Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV). Given the available actuators (i.e. poloidal field coils) on the TCV device, this work aims to optimize the input current configuration concerning a desired cost function, minimizing the effect on the controlled output, which is, in this case, considered as the plasma shape. This request is formulated as a dynamic control allocation problem, and a solution is proposed, discussed, and validated by numerical simulations on TCV models and data.