Advances, challenges, and future perspectives of microwave reflectometry for plasma position and shape control on future nuclear fusion devices

B Gonçalves, P Varela, A Silva, F Silva, J Santos… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Providing energy from fusion and finding ways to scale up the fusion process to commercial
proportions in an efficient, economical, and environmentally benign way is one of the grand …

Conceptual design of the COMPASS upgrade tokamak

R Panek, T Markovic, P Cahyna, R Dejarnac… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The paper describes the conceptual design of the COMPASS Upgrade (COMPASS-U)
tokamak which represents a compact, medium-size, high-magnetic-field and high-density …

Runaway electron beam stability and decay in COMPASS

O Ficker, E Macusova, J Mlynar, D Bren… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents two scenarios used for generation of a runaway electron (RE) beam in
the COMPASS tokamak with a focus on the decay phase and control of the beam. The first …

Post-disruptive runaway electron beams in the COMPASS tokamak

M Vlainic, J Mlynar, J Cavalier, V Weinzettl… - Journal of Plasma …, 2015 - cambridge.org
For ITER-relevant runaway electron studies, such as suppression, mitigation, termination
and/or control of a runaway beam, it is important to obtain the runaway electrons after the …

Plasma density control in real-time on the COMPASS tokamak

F Janky, M Hron, J Havlicek, M Varavin, F Zacek… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The electron density on COMPASS is measured using 2 mm microwave interferometer.
Interferometer signal is used as an input for the feedback control loop, running under the …

Marte2 embedded signal processing unit for the iter magnetics diagnostics

G Avon, A Buscarino, AC Neto… - IECON 2021–47th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
By leveraging the performances achievable combining MARTe2 framework and ARMv8
platforms, the approach presented in this contribution suggests a way to the rapid …

Overview of the COMPASS CODAC system

M Hron, F Janky, J Pipek, J Sousa, BB Carvalho… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents an overview of the Control, Data Acquisition, and Communication
system (CODAC) at the COMPASS tokamak: the hardware set-up, software implementation …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating EDICAM into the MARTe framework

G Cseh, G Kocsis, B Kovács, E Skáre… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract At the Centre for Energy Research a process has started to integrate the Event
Detection Intelligent Camera (EDICAM) and its software API into the Multithreaded …

Real-time plasma position reflectometry system development and integration on COMPASS tokamak

PD Lourenço, JM Santos, A Havránek, O Bogár… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2020 - Elsevier
O-mode frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) reflectometry provides an
alternative to magnetic measurements in the determination of the plasma separatrix position …

Timing and triggering of the Thomson scattering diagnostics on the COMPASS tokamak

O Mikulin, M Hron, P Bohm, G Naylor, P Bilkova… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2014 - Elsevier
The Thomson scattering diagnostics (TS) at the COMPASS tokamak (operated in the
Institute of Plasma Physics ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic) is based on two high-power Nd …