CONFIGURATION ENVIRONMENT FOR THE ASDEX UPGRADE CONTROL SYSTEM

ASDEX Upgrade is a tokamak fusion device controlled by a network of real-time control computers. Magnetic field coils, fuelling and heating systems may be operated feedforward or used in various feedback control loops. The real-time control system is parameterized by a discharge program, i.e. a set of time varying value trajectories to choose among control algorithms, to define feedforward and feedback references and set control flow conditions. An environment to configure such a system has to be based on control and monitoring processes implemented in the currently installed discharge control software and on actually connected I/O hardware. A process oriented user interface for the input of reference values facilitates the physicist’s orientation while assembling a discharge program. 1