Real Time Hybrid Model Predictive Control for the Current Profile of the Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV) by Izaskun Garrido, Aitor J. Garrido, Stefano Coda, Hoang B. Le, Jean Marc Moret

“…The inner control loop is composed of a PID-based controller that acts over the Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system resulting from the RZIp plasma model of the Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV). The coefficients of this PID controller are initially tuned using an eigenmode reduction over the passive structure model. …”
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Study of fast-ion-driven toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes impacting on the global confinement in TCV L-mode plasmas by S. Mazzi, S. Mazzi, M. Vallar, U. Kumar, O. Krutkin, J. Poley-Sanjuan, L. Simons, J. Ball, S. Brunner, S. Coda, J. Garcia, A. Iantchenko, Ye. O. Kazakov, W. H. Lin, J. Ongena, B. Rofman, L. Villard, the TCV team

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Frequency response identification of the dynamics of a Tokamak plasma by Coutlis, A, Limebeer, D, Wainwright, J, Lister, J, Vyas, P

“…The paper develops an H ∞ system identification algorithm and demonstrates its successful application to the Tokamak a configuration variable (TCV). Each of the required steps is detailed, from the design of identification experiments through to the creation of low-order models from a combination of Hankel model reduction and Chebycheff approximation. …”

Modeling and control of TCV by Sharma, A, Limebeer, D, Jaimoukha, I, Lister, J

“…A normalized coprime factorization H∞ controller is developed for the the Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV), CRPP-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, tokamak using the linearized model, which has been extensively verified on the TCV and JT-60U, JAERI, Naka, Japan, tokamaks. …”

Analysis of edge transport in L-mode negative triangularity TCV discharges by P. Muscente, P. Innocente, J. Ball, S. Gorno

“…Studies are made on discharges performed in the TCV device (Tokamak à configuration variable), which can create a variety of different plasma geometries thanks to 16 independently powered poloidal field coils and its open vacuum vessel. …”
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Tracking blobs in the turbulent edge plasma of a tokamak fusion device by Woonghee Han, Randall A. Pietersen, Rafael Villamor-Lora, Matthew Beveridge, Nicola Offeddu, Theodore Golfinopoulos, Christian Theiler, James L. Terry, Earl S. Marmar, Iddo Drori

“…We compare four baseline methods (RAFT, Mask R-CNN, GMA, and Flow Walk) trained on synthetic data and then test on synthetic and real-world data obtained from plasmas in the Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV). The blob regime identified from an analysis of blob trajectories agrees with state-of-the-art conditional averaging methods for each of the baseline methods employed, giving confidence in the accuracy of these techniques. …”
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Studies of Edge Fluctuations of Negative Triangularity Plasma on TCV using a New Gas-Puff Imaging Diagnostic by Han, Woonghee

“…Recent experiments in the Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV) and DIII-D tokamaks have correlated the confinement improvement to a reduction of fluctuations within the plasma core, but, until now, relatively little was known about the effect of δ on plasma edge dynamics. …”
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