Optimal control in maintaining the plasma equilibrium in а tokamak

The paper is concerned with control of lateral magnetic field in tofeamaks; a procedure is suggested for design of an optimal control system. The control system performance is estimated in terms of energy consumption and accuracy of maintaining the desired magnetic configuration. The design proceeds in two stages, optimal cinfuturation of windings and computation of current dynamics in control windings. The design procedure is illustrated with computations of control systems for some physical installations.