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Current status and future prospects of the JT-60U control system

Yonekawa, Izuru; Kawamata, Yoichi; Totsuka, Toshiyuki; Akasaka, Hiromi; Sueoka, Michiharu; Yoshida, Hidetoshi

Fusion Engineering and Design, 71(1-4), p.11 - 15, 2004/06

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2004.04.003

Times Cited Count：5 Percentile：36.39(Nuclear Science & Technology)

The JT-60 control system based on workstation and VME-bus system features with UNIX system has been successfully performed at JT-60U advanced plasma experiment. The various hardware modifications and the adoption of the advanced plasma control algorithms have been continued to the JT-60 control system since its upgrade in 1991. The ZENKEI, supervisory control system, has entirely remodeled from its original 16 bits minicomputer and CAMAC system to the combination of workstation and VME-bus system configuration with Ethernet communication network system. The plasma control system executes real-time plasma equilibrium control command calculation within 250msec control cycle time. Each plant control subsystems are also modified along with same design concept to the ZENKEI. Currently, the minor modifications of the control system have been considered to realize longer pulse of discharge experiments without major change of the JT-60 equipment. Nearly 60 seconds of pulse length up to Ip=2MA, Bt=2T, PNBI=10MW(30sec) plasma experiments will start from October in 2003.

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JT-60 control system

Yonekawa, Izuru; Kawamata, Yoichi; Totsuka, Toshiyuki; Akasaka, Hiromi; Sueoka, Michiharu; Kurihara, Kenichi; Kimura, Toyoaki; JT-60U Team

Fusion Science and Technology (JT-60 Special Issue), 42(2-3), p.521 - 529, 2002/09

https://doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A244

Times Cited Count：5 Percentile：35.61(Nuclear Science & Technology)

The present status of JT-60 control system is reported including its original design concept, the progress of the system and various modifications since JT-60 upgrade. This control system has features of a functionally distributed and hierarchical structure, using CAMAC interfaces at the beginning, which are replaced to versatile module Europe (VME)-bus interfaces later, and a protective interlock system composed of both software and hard-wired interlock logics. Plant monitoring and control are performed by efficient data communication through CAMAC highways and Ethernet with TCP/IP protocols. Sequential control of a plasma discharges are executed by a combination of a remodeled VME-bus system and a timing system. At real-time plasma control system and a human interface system have been continuously modified corresponding to the progress of JT-60 experiments.

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