robust sliding mode control for tokamaks托卡马克装置的鲁棒滑模控制.pdf

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2012, Article ID 341405, 14 pages doi:10.1155/2012/341405 Research Article Robust Sliding Mode Control for Tokamaks I. Garrido,1 A. J. Garrido,1 M. G. Sevillano,1 and J. A. Romero2 1 Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, EUITI de Bilbao, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Rafael Moreno, 3, 48013 Bizkaia, Spain 2 Laboratorio Nacional de Fusion, EURATOM/CIEMAT, 28040 Madrid, Spain ´ Correspondence should be addressed to I. Garrido, izaskun.garrido@ehu.es Received 29 May 2012; Accepted 1 August 2012 Academic Editor: Jun-Juh Yan Copyright q 2012 I. Garrido et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Nuclear fusion has arisen as an alternative energy to avoid carbon dioxide emissions, being the tokamak a promising nuclear fusion reactor that uses a magnetic field to confine plasma in the shape of a torus. However, different kinds of magnetohydrodynamic instabilities may affect tokamak plasma equilibrium, causing severe reduction of particle confinement and leading to plasma disruptions. In this sense, numerous efforts and resources have been devoted to seeking solutions for the different plasma control problems so as to avoid energy confinement time decrements in these devices. In particular, since the growth rate of the vertical instability increases with the internal inductance, lowering the internal inductance is a fundamental issue to address for the elongated plasmas employed within the a