MARTe at FTU: The new feedback control

L Boncagni, Y Sadeghi, D Carnevale… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Keeping in mind the necessities of a modern control system for fusion devices, such as
modularity and a distributed architecture, an upgrade of the present FTU feedback control …

An overview of FTU results

P Buratti, E Alessi, L Amicucci, B Angelini… - Nuclear …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Since the 2010 IAEA-FEC Conference, FTU has exploited improvements in
cleaning procedures and in the density control system to complete a systematic exploration …

A control approach for plasma density in tokamak machines

L Boncagni, D Pucci, F Piesco, E Zarfati… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2013 - Elsevier
In tokamak machines, chamber pre-fill is crucial to attain plasma breakdown, while plasma
density control is instrumental for several tasks such as machine protection and …

An overview of the software architecture of the plasma position, current and density realtime controller of the FTU

L Boncagni, R Vitelli, D Carnevale, C Galperti… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Experimental fusion devices requires flexible control systems with a modern architecture,
which allows the controller to be distributed and modular. The aforementioned requirements …

Temperature control of the FTU liquid lithium limiter

L Boncagni, D Carnevale, A Cristaldi… - 2013 European …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Several experiments on Tokamak devices have shown serious difficulties in the
development of appropriate technical solutions concerning the structure and material …

A Real-Time system for data acquisition, elaboration and actuator's control for magnetohydrodynamics instabilities in the FTU tokamak

C Sozzi, E Alessi, L Boncagni, C Galperti… - 2012 IEEE 51st IEEE …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A Real-Time system for the for data acquisition and processing in order to control the
magnetohydrodynamics instabilities in tokamak is presented. It is based on both a-priori …

The Real-Time system for MHD activity control in the FTU tokamak

C Sozzi, E Alessi, L Boncagni, C Galperti… - EPJ Web of …, 2012 - epj-conferences.org
The Real-Time system for the control of the magnetohydrodynamics instabilities in FTU
tokamak is presented. It is based on both a-priori information derived from statistical …

A real-time data acquisition and elaboration system for instabilities control in the FTU tokamak

E Alessi, L Boncagni, C Galperti, C Marchetto… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2013 - Elsevier
A real-time data acquisition and elaboration system is being implemented to control the new
ECH launcher recently installed at FTU (Frascati Tokamak Upgrade). The system is aimed at …

Pre-Results of the Real-Time ODIN Validation on MARTe Using Plasma Linearized Model in FTU Tokamak

Y Sadeghi, L Boncagni - Journal of fusion energy, 2012 - Springer
MARTe is a modular framework for real-time control aspects. At present time there are
several MARTe systems under development at Frascati Tokamak Upgrade (Boncagni et al …