The control system of the 1-MW TCV tokamak heating neutral beam injector

Abstract

The control system of the neutral beam injector is presented that was designed and constructed at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, for the TCV tokamak in Lausanne, Switzerland. The system hardware includes an industrial computer with reconfigurable PCI Express input–output boards, as well as interfacing electronics, which ensures galvanic isolation and electrical compatibility with the injector units. The software and firmware that implement the control system algorithm by means of both the industrial computer and the FPGAs of the reconfigurable boards are written using LabVIEW. The injection parameters are calculated using the beam-power model; the graphical representation and storage of the results are carried out in MATLAB. A communication interface with the tokamak control system is also provided for data exchange and synchronization of operation.