Feedback suppression of rotating external kink instabilities in the presence of noise
- Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, 200 S. W. Mudd Building - MC 4701, 500 W. 120th Street, New York, New York 10027 (United States)
The authors report on the first experimental demonstration of active feedback suppression of rotating external kink modes near the ideal wall limit in a tokamak using Kalman filtering to discriminate the n=1 kink mode from background noise. The Kalman filter contains an internal model that captures the dynamics of a rotating, growing n=1 mode. Suppression of the external kink mode is demonstrated over a broad range of phase angles between the sensed mode and applied control field, and performance is robust at noise levels that render proportional gain feedback ineffective. Suppression of the kink mode is accomplished without excitation of higher frequencies as was observed in previous experiments using lead-lag loop compensation [A. J. Klein et al., Phys Plasmas 12, 040703 (2005)].
- OSTI ID:
- 21120481
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 15, Issue 8; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2974797; (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1070-664X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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