Significant progress has been made in the area of advanced modes of operation that are
candidates for achieving steady state conditions in a fusion reactor. The corresponding …

The ITER plasma control system has the same functional scope as the control systems in
present tokamaks. These are plasma operation scenario sequencing, plasma basic control …

In thermonuclear fusion research using magnetic confinement, the tokamak is the leading
candidate for achieving the conditions required for a reactor. An international experiment …

Many of the articles in this special issue focus on the problem of control of plasma
axisymmetric shape and position. It is the best understood of tokamak control problems and …

Modern tokamaks have achieved significant fusion production, but further progress towards
steady-state operation has been stymied by a host of kinetic and MHD instabilities. Control …

In this paper, a strict Lyapunov function is developed in order to show the exponential
stability and input-to-state stability (ISS) properties of a diffusion equation for …

Plasma with an internal transport barrier (ITB) will be developed in JT-60SA as an attractive
operation appropriate for a steady-state fusion reactor. To achieve the ITB plasma while …

ITER plasma control design solutions and performance requirements are strongly driven by
its nuclear mission, aggressive commissioning constraints, and limited number of …

Extensive experiments of advanced scenario development, which contribute to the ITER
hybrid operational scenario have been carried out on experimental advanced …

The present paper is devoted to a first assessment of the DEMO diagnostics systems and
controls in the context of pulsed and steady state reactor design under study in Europe. In …