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Francesco Piras

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Development of real-time plasma analysis and control algorithms for the TCV tokamak using SIMULINK

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Lucia Isabel Federspiel, Alessandro Bortolon, Andreas Pitzschke, James Paley, Francesco Piras, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Wouter Vijvers, Hoang Bao Le

One of the key features of the new digital plasma control system installed on the TCV tokamak is the possibility to rapidly design, test and deploy real-time algorithms. With this flexibility the new control system has been used for a large number of new e ...

Elsevier2013

Extremely Shaped Plasmas to Improve the Tokamak Concept

Francesco Piras

Energy is essential for human existence and our future depends on plentiful and accessible sources of energy. The world population is fast growing and the average energy used per capita increases. One of the greatest challenges for human beings is that of ...

EPFL2011

Using APCS for Plasma Vertical Control at TCV

Basil Duval, Jean-Marc Moret, Stefano Coda, James Paley, Francesco Piras, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici

Early tokamaks with circular cross-section plasmas were vertically stable in nature and no problems were reported on the control of the vertical position. However, the concept of vertically elongated plasma cross-section, with benefits to the energy confin ...

2011