3 papers
eess.SY2025
MPC strategies for density profile control with pellet fueling in nuclear fusion tokamaks under uncertainty
Christopher A. Orrico, Hari Prasad Varadarajan, Matthijs van Berkel +4
Control of the density profile based on pellet fueling for the ITER nuclear fusion tokamak involves a multi-rate nonlinear system with safety-critical constraints, input delays, an…
eess.SY2023
Mixed-Integer MPC Strategies for Fueling and Density Control in Fusion Tokamaks
Christopher A. Orrico, Matthijs van Berkel, Thomas O. S. J. Bosman +2
Model predictive control (MPC) is promising for fueling and core density feedback control in nuclear fusion tokamaks, where the primary actuators, frozen hydrogen fuel pellets fire…
physics.plasm-ph2021
Model-based electron density profile estimation and control, applied to ITER
T. O. S. J. Bosman, M. van Berkel, M. R. de Baar
In contemporary magnetic confinement devices, the density distribution is sensed with interferometers and actuated with feedback controlled gas injection and open-loop pellet injec…