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20202025
most citedIntegrated real-time supervisory management for off-normal-event handling and feedback control of tokamak plasmas

24 citations · 30 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.plasm-ph2025

First experimental demonstration of plasma shape control in a tokamak through Model Predictive Control

Adriano Mele, Maria A. Topalova, Cristian Galperti +3

In this work, a Model Predictive Controller (MPC) is proposed to control the plasma shape in the Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV). The proposed controller relies on models ob…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Implementation of an ITER-relevant QP-based Current Limit Avoidance algorithm in the TCV tokamak

D. Frattolillo, A. Mele, C. Galperti +11

The problem of avoiding saturation of the coil currents is critical in large tokamaks with superconducting coils like ITER. Indeed, if the current limits are reached, a loss of con…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Learning Plasma Dynamics and Robust Rampdown Trajectories with Predict-First Experiments at TCV

Allen M. Wang, Alessandro Pau, Cristina Rea +12

The rampdown phase of a tokamak pulse is difficult to simulate and often exacerbates multiple plasma instabilities. To reduce the risk of disrupting operations, we leverage advance…

physics.plasm-ph2023★ 6 cited

Towards practical reinforcement learning for tokamak magnetic control

Brendan D. Tracey, Andrea Michi, Yuri Chervonyi +15

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promising results for real-time control systems, including the domain of plasma magnetic control. However, there are still significant drawbac…

physics.plasm-ph2021

Latest results on quiescent and post-disruption runaway electron mitigation experiments at Frascati Tokamak Upgrade

D. Carnevale, P. Buratti, M. Baruzzo +38

Results from the last FTU campaigns on the deuterium large (wrt FTU volume) pellet REs suppression capability, mainly due to the induced burst MHD activity expelling REs seed are p…