Abstract
An advanced adaptive control algorithm is used to study the control of external kink modes that are excited in the HBT-EP tokamak and have a natural toroidal rotation frequency near 8 kHz. The controller's system model is parametrized and the parameters are adjusted in real-time to match the measured plasma evolution. Depending upon a programmed phase angle, active feedback control is shown to either suppress or amplify the controlled amplitude by an amount comparable to the variations observed over a variety of plasma discharges. With negative feedback, the maximum amplitude is reduced to 40% of the uncontrolled value. With positive feedback, the amplitude increases to 155%. Intermediate feedback phases lead to an acceleration or deceleration of the mode rotation frequency in addition to changes in mode amplitude. As the feedback gain increases, the level of both mode suppression and mode amplification also increases. However, for sufficiently high gain, kink mode suppression becomes limited by the excitation of an additional, slowly rotating 1.4 kHz mode having the same helical structure as the uncontrolled kink. High gain amplification is limited by disruptive loss of plasma current. Experimental results are compared with numerical simulations based on a single helicity model, and qualitative agreement is found.
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