Upgrade of the Analog Integrator for EAST Device

TL;DR

This paper presents an upgraded analog integrator for EAST tokamak experiments, featuring real-time drift correction using a new ARM-based controller and network control, resulting in improved signal fidelity.

Contribution

A novel integrator controller using ARM micro-controller and network protocol for real-time drift correction in EAST plasma measurements.

Findings

High CMRR of 125 dB achieved

Integration drift reduced to about 200 uVs/1000 s

Successful real-time control implementation

Abstract

Integrators are fundamental instruments to recover differential signals from magnetic probes in Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) experiments. A kind of difference integrator is introduced which has the same structure as the standard difference amplifier. The linear fitting method is used for determining the effective drift slope, then the plasma control system (PCS) use the drift slope to rectify the integration signal in real time. A new integrator controller was developed, which uses an ARM micro-controller and the lightweight IP protocol stack to realize the network control. The tests show that the upgraded integrator works well, its CMRR is high up to 125 dB when the common voltage is 1.5 V, and the processed integration drift is about 200 uVs /1000 s.