Magnetic Control of Tokamak Plasmas

Introduction.- Part I Plasma Modelling.- Plasma Modelling for MagneticControl.- Modelling of Resistive Wall Modes.- The Plasma Boundary andIts Identification.- Part II Plasma Control.- Plasma Magnetic ControlProblem.- Plasma Position and Current Control for Limiter Plasmas.-Plasma Vertical Stabilization.- Plasma Shape Control for ITER.- PlasmaShape Control at TCV.- Plasma Shape Control at JET.- Control ofResistive Wall Modes.- Appendices: Some Mathematical Background; UnitsUsed in Plasma Physics.

Marco Ariola was born in Naples, Italy, in 1971. He received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering and the Research Doctorate degree in electronic engineering and computer science from the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy, in 1995 and 2000, respectively. From 1996 to 2005 he was with the Department of Computer and Systems Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II. Currently, he is a full Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Naples Parthenope in the Engineering Department. From September 1998 to February 1999, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering of University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA. His research interests include statistical control, robust control, control of nuclear fusion devices, control of aerospace systems. He has published more than 150 journal papers, conference papers, articles in books and encyclopedias. He is co-author of the books "Magnetic Control of Tokamak Plasmas" and "Finite-Time Stability and Control" published by Springer in 2008 and 2013. He is a senior member of the IEEE.
Professor AlfredoPironti received the Laurea degree cum Laude in Electronic Engineering, and thePhD in Electronic and Computing Engineering from the University of NaplesFederico II in 1991 and 1995, respectively. Since 1991 he works at theUniversity of Naples Federico II, where he currently is a Full Professor ofSystem and Control Theory in the Department of Electrical and InformationTechnology Engineering. He has spent several periods as visiting researcher atthe Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching (Germany), the Centerfor Control Engineering and Computation (University of California at SantaBarbara), the ITER Joint Work Site of Naka (Japan), and the EFDA-JET site ofCulham (UK). His research interests include application of feedback control tonuclear fusion problems, robust control of uncertain systems, and differentialgames theory. In 2005 Alfredo