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

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

doi:10.1051/epjconf/20123204015

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EPJ Web of Conferences 32, 04015 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20123204015

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

C. Galperti¹^a, E. Alessi¹, L. Boncagni², A. Bruschi¹, G. Granucci¹, A. Grosso², F. Iannone², C. Marchetto¹, S. Nowak¹, M. Panella², C. Sozzi¹ and B. Tilia²

¹ Istituto di Fisica del Plasma, CNR, EURATOM-ENEA-CNR Association, Milan, Italy
² ENEA, C.R. Frascati, EURATOM-ENEA-CNR Association, Frascati, Rome, Italy

^a e-mail: galperti@ifp.cnr.it

Abstract

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.

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