Design and implementation of fractional order pole placement controller to control the magnetic flux in Damavand tokamak

In this paper, a routine algorithm is presented to design a fractional order controller for tracking the reference model. Using this algorithm, a pole placement controller can be designed by assigning the desired integer and fractional order closed loop transfer functions. Considering the desired time response and using the generalized characteristic ratio assignment (CRA) method for fractional order systems and coefficient diagram method (CDM) for integer order systems, the desired closed loop system can be achieved. For various practical experiments, having the desired time responses is vital for magnetic flux in Damavand tokamak. To approach this, at first, the desired reference models are obtained based on CRA and CDM methods. After that, a fractional order pole placement controller is designed and simulated by this algorithm. At last, this controller is implemented on a digital signal processor to control the vertical magnetic flux of Damavand tokamak plant. The practical results show the satisfactory performance of the controller.