Federico Felici

EPFL SB SPC-TCV
PPB 220 (Bâtiment PPB)
Station 13
CH-1015 Lausanne

Web site:  Web site:  https://spc.epfl.ch/

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Fields of expertise

Control of nuclear fusion reactors

Nuclear fusion/plasma physics:
Tokamak scenarios and their control, current drive, profile control. Control of MHD instabilities, magnetic control of plasma equilibrium. Simulation of plasma core profile evolution, free-boundary equilibrium simulation and reconstruction. Real-time simulation and prediction.

Control science:
Control theory, feedback control design, observer design, (Kalman) filtering, nonlinear optimization, model-based predictive control, iterative learning control, machine-learning approaches to control. Implementation of control systems, real-time coding.

Awards

EPFL doctorate award

Award for best EPFL PhD thesis of the year

2013

VENI grant

Personal 3-year research grant from Dutch Research Council for the project "Control of plasma profiles in a fusion reactor"

2013

Publications

Infoscience publications

Teaching & PhD

Courses

Control and Operation of Tokamaks

This course treats the main issues in operation and control of a tokamak. Control-oriented models are derived and controllers are designed using techniques from modern control theory. Operational limits are discussed as well as state-of-the-art research questions for future reactors.