EPJ Web of Conferences (Sep 2012)

Specifications and implementation of the RT MHD control system for the EC launcher of FTU

  • Nowak S.,
  • Marchetto C.,
  • Iannone F.,
  • Grosso A.,
  • Granucci G.,
  • Bruschi A.,
  • Boncagni L.,
  • Alessi E.,
  • Galperti C.,
  • Panella M.,
  • Sozzi C.,
  • Tilia B.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20123204015
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 32
p. 04015

Abstract

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To perform real time plasma control experiments using EC heating waves by using the new fast launcher installed on FTU a dedicated data acquisition and elaboration system has been designed recently. A prototypical version of the acquisition/control system has been recently developed and will be tested on FTU machine in its next experimental campaign. The open-source framework MARTe (Multi-threaded Application Real-Time executor) on Linux/RTAI real-time operating system has been chosen as software platform to realize the control system. Standard open-architecture industrial PCs, based either on VME bus and CompactPCI bus equipped with standard input/output cards are the chosen hardware platform.