| Operational Results and Experience of KSTAR Integrated Control System | ||
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Mikyung Park and KSTAR Control Team |
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The KSTAR(Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research) is the newest superconducting tokamak to have a mission to perform fusion researches for future energy source, which accomplished the 1st plasma in 2008 after the completion of design, fabrication and assembly since 1995. Also, the KSTAR integrated control system (KICS) has been developed to integrate various types of plant I&Cs and data acquisition systems, and perform KSTAR tokamak operation and plasma experiments which are substantially different from the other experimental facilities in operation. Through the last 2 campaigns, the KICS has successfully performed the essential missions and also proved the performance of EPICS for tokamak control. The noticeable results affected the decision of a middleware for ITER CODAC system. |
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