25–29 May 2026
La Biodola - Isola d'Elba (Italy)
Europe/Rome timezone
NB: The submission deadline for the Student Paper Awards is Monday, 11 May.

99 Real-time Autoregressive Evolution of Tokamak Plasma Magnetic Measurements

27 May 2026, 10:26
2m
Maria Luisa Room (Hotel Hermitage)

Maria Luisa Room

Hotel Hermitage

Mini Oral AI, Machine Learning, Real Time Simulation, Intelligent Signal Processing Mini Orals

Speaker

Dr Shuai Li (Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center(Anhui Energy Laboratory))

Description

High-precision and rapid evolution prediction of magnetic measurement signals are essential for tokamak plasma configuration control and the safe operation of discharges. Traditional physics-based models typically suffer from high computational complexity and long execution times, making it difficult to satisfy real-time requirements. Meanwhile, existing data-driven methods often encounter issues with insufficient reliability when performing long-term extrapolation. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a real-time autoregressive magnetic measurement evolution method based on the Transformer architecture. The model takes historical magnetic measurement data and real-time control commands as inputs, leveraging the self-attention mechanism of the Transformer to capture long-range temporal dependencies. At each time step, the model predicts the magnetic measurements for the next step and recursively updates these predictions as subsequent inputs, thereby achieving continuous temporal evolution. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed single-step autoregressive approach accurately tracks the evolution trajectory of magnetic signals during the discharge process, achieving an accuracy of no less than 92% within a 1000 ms duration. Furthermore, its single-step inference structure is well-suited for low-latency hardware deployment, fulfilling the rigorous demands of real-time control systems. This research provides a high-precision, high-efficiency digital environment for closed-loop control simulators and the development of advanced controllers based on reinforcement learning for magnetic confinement fusion devices.

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Author

Dr Shuai Li (Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center(Anhui Energy Laboratory))

Co-authors

Yunfei Ling Zijie Liu Yao Huang Yuehang Wang Dalong Chen Qiping Yuan Bingjia Xiao

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