Assigned Projects

AMG: Burn Control in Fusion Reactors Using Simultaneous Boundary and Distributed Actuation

• M. D. Boyer and E. Schuster
  Burn Control in Fusion Reactors Using Simultaneous Boundary and Distributed Actuation
  Proceedings of the 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, Italy, December 10-13, 2013.
  NOTE 1: Backstepping boundary control is combined with interior control.
  NOTE 2: An adaptive law is proposed for disturbance estimation and rejection.

BL: Optimal Control of PDE Systems With State Constraints Using Nonlinear Programming

• C. Xu, Y. Ou, J. Dalessio, E. Schuster, T. C. Luce, J. R. Ferron, M. L. Walker, and D. A. Humphreys
  Ramp-Up-Phase Current-Profile Control of Tokamak Plasmas via Nonlinear Programming
  IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Vol. 38, No. 2, February 2010.

SM: Polytopic Control of the Magnetic Flux Profile in a Tokamak Plasma

• F. Bribiesca Argomedo, C. Prieur, E. Witrant, S. Bremond
  Polytopic Control of the Magnetic Flux Profile in a Tokamak Plasma
  Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, Italy, August 28 - September 2, 2011.

VG: Port-Hamiltonian modeling and reduction of a burning plasma system

• B. Vincent, R. Nouailletas, J.-F. Artaud, N. Hudon, L. Lefevre and D. Dochain
  Lumped port-Hamiltonian burning plasma control model
  Proceedings of the IEEE 58th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Nice, France, December 11-13, 2019.

ZW: Lyapunov-based distributed control of the safety-factor profile in a tokamak plasma

• F. Bribiesca Argomedo, E. Witrant, C. Prieur, S. Bremond, R. Nouailletas, J-F. Artaud
  Lyapunov-based distributed control of the safety-factor profile in a tokamak plasma
  Nuclear Fusion 53 (2013) 033005 (14pp).