The control system of the 1-MW TCV tokamak heating neutral beam injector

The control system of the neutral beam injector is presented that was designed and constructed at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, for the TCV tokamak in Lausanne, Switzerland. The system hardware includes an industrial computer with reconfigurable PCI Express input–output boa...

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Published inInstruments and experimental techniques (New York) Vol. 60; no. 2; pp. 229 - 232
Main Authors Kolmogorov, V. V., Oreshonok, V. V.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Moscow Pleiades Publishing 01.03.2017
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Bus interconnections
Communications systems
Control systems
Data exchange
Electrical Engineering
Firmware
General Experimental Techniques
Heat exchange
Measurement Science and Instrumentation
Nuclear electric power generation
Nuclear physics
Physical Chemistry
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Synchronism
Tokamak devices
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Summary:The control system of the neutral beam injector is presented that was designed and constructed at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, for the TCV tokamak in Lausanne, Switzerland. The system hardware includes an industrial computer with reconfigurable PCI Express input–output boards, as well as interfacing electronics, which ensures galvanic isolation and electrical compatibility with the injector units. The software and firmware that implement the control system algorithm by means of both the industrial computer and the FPGAs of the reconfigurable boards are written using LabVIEW. The injection parameters are calculated using the beam-power model; the graphical representation and storage of the results are carried out in MATLAB. A communication interface with the tokamak control system is also provided for data exchange and synchronization of operation.
ISSN:0020-4412
1608-3180
DOI:10.1134/S0020441217010328