TCV TeamEurofusion Tokamak Exploitation TeamFrattolillo, DomenicoMele, AdrianoGalperti, Cristiandi Grazia, Luigi E.Mattei, MassimilianoCoda, StefanoDe Tommasi, GianmariaPironti, AlfredoTenaglia, AlessandroDevries, PeterPangione, LuigiZabeo, Luca2025-05-062025-05-062025-05-052025-05-3110.1088/1361-6587/adccb0https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/249808WOS:001473328400001The problem of avoiding saturation of the coil currents is critical in large tokamaks with superconducting coils like ITER. Indeed, if the current limits are reached, a loss of control of the plasma may lead to a major disruption. Therefore, a current limit avoidance (CLA) system is essential to operate safely. This paper provides the first experimental evidence that the online solution of a constrained quadratic optimization problem can offer a valid methodology to implement a CLA. Experiments are carried out on the tokamak & agrave; configuration variable at the Swiss Plasma Center, showing the effectiveness of the proposed approach and its suitability for real-time application in view of future reactors such as ITER.EnglishCLAtokamakmagnetic controlcurrent allocationTCVtext::journal::journal article::research article