Magnetic controller performance requirements and design solutions for the Spherical
Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) are driven by the need to produce equilibrium and …

ITER plasma control design solutions and performance requirements are strongly driven by
its nuclear mission, aggressive commissioning constraints, and limited number of …

Electron cyclotron wave beams injected from a launcher placed in the upper part of the
vessel will be used in ITER to control MHD instabilities, in particular neoclassical tearing …

Time-dependent simulations are used to evolve plasma discharges in combination with a
modified Rutherford equation for calculation of neoclassical tearing mode (NTM) stability in …

The capabilities of the DIII-D tokamak's plasma control system (PCS) were expanded to
allow for pedestal optimization and edge localized mode (ELM) control. Three proof of …

Plasma control systems (PCS) in tokamaks need to fulfill a number of control tasks to
achieve the desired physics goals. In present-day devices, actuators are usually assigned to …

The ITER plasma control system (PCS) will play a central role in enabling the experimental
program to attempt to sustain DT plasmas with Q= 10 for several hundred seconds and also …

In ITER and DEMO, various control objectives related to plasma control must be
simultaneously achieved by the plasma control system (PCS), in both normal operation as …

The paper details the process of developing the ITER Plasma Control System (PCS), that is,
how to design and deploy it systematically, in the most efficient and effective manner. The …

ITER will be the first tokamak to sustain a fusion-producing, or burning, plasma. If the plasma
temperature were to inadvertently rise in this burning regime, the positive correlation …