Safety Factor Profile Control in a Tokamak

• Main Authors: Bribiesca Argomedo, Federico (Author), Witrant, Emmanuel (Author), Prieur, Christophe (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Nuclear fusion.; Plasma (Ionized gases).; Control engineering.; Control.; Nuclear Fusion.; Plasma Physics.

Control of the Safety Factor Profile in a Tokamak uses Lyapunov techniques to address a challenging problem for which even the simplest physically relevant models are represented by nonlinear, time-dependent, partial differential equations (PDEs). This is because of the  spatiotemporal dynamics of t...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Mathematical model of the safety factor and control problem formulation
• A polytopic LPV approach for finite-dimensional control
• Infinite-dimensional Control
• Lyapunov Function
• Controller implementation.