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ITER ECH&CD Control System: Architecture, interfaces and status of development

  • Carannante Giuseppe,
  • Cavinato Mario,
  • Cindric Katarina,
  • De Vries Peter,
  • Felici Federico,
  • Ferrari Martino Giordano,
  • Ferrò Giuseppe,
  • Henderson Mark,
  • Neto André,
  • Preynas Melanie,
  • Reich Matthias,
  • Sartori Filippo,
  • Zabeo Luca

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202327704002
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 277
p. 04002

Abstract

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The ITER ECH&CD system is designed to inject 20 MW of millimetre-wave at 170 GHz into the vacuum vessel. The system is composed of many sub-systems, namely High-Voltage Power Supplies (HVPS), Gyrotrons, Transmission Lines (TL), Ex-vessel Waveguides (EW), Launchers. It is the role of the EC Plant Controller (ECPC) to integrate all the Sub-system Control Units (SCU), to prepare the system for operation and to execute the real-time requests coming from the plasma control system. The ECPC also implements plant level protection functions involving more than one sub-system and it interfaces with the ITER Central I&C. This paper gives an overview of the EC system and a description of the control system development focusing on the architecture and the interfaces. Control and protection functions are presented together with a functional allocation to better define interfaces and responsibilities. The preliminary design of the interface with the Plasma Control System to implement advanced control functions is also presented.