مشارکت از راه دور در بهره برداری ITER ، طراحی مفهومی

The ITER facility, being built as an international collaboration, will be used by the multiple participating countries, both via their representatives on site and via remote participation. Remote access will be an integral part of the ITER control system (CODAC) and will consist of two main interface components – a data gateway serving outgoing data requests and a request gatekeeper overseeing incoming configuration requests. This paper gives an overview of the current state of the design of remote access to ITER experimentation and reports on the principal results of R&D activity on the gatekeeper functionality conducted jointly by the ITER Organization, General Atomics and MIT.

One of the challenges arising from the ITER treaty is the provision of facilities for participating countries to conduct remote experimentation on the ITER machine in order to benefit fully from scientific and technological results of the ITER exploitation. Remote access will be an integral part of the ITER control system (CODAC). The first conception of the remote participation in CODAC was given in the CODAC conceptual design [1] in 2007. Since that, the ITER Organization, together with General Atomics and MIT, has executed an R&D task on the incoming request gatekeeper functionality. This paper gives an overview of the current state of the design of remote access to ITER experimentation and reports on the principal results of the study.

The R&D on the gatekeeper has delivered a working prototype, which provides valuable input for further design and development of the production remote access system for ITER experiments. The author wishes to thank the ITER CODAC team, US-ITER, General Atomics, MIT and KSTAR colleagues for their contribution to this activity.