Low latency optical-based mode tracking with machine learning deployed on FPGAs on a tokamak

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Main Authors: Wei, Yumou, Forelli, Ryan F., Hansen, Chris, Levesque, Jeffrey P., Tran, Nhan, Agar, Joshua C., Di Guglielmo, Giuseppe, Mauel, Michael E., Navratil, Gerald A.
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author Wei, Yumou
Forelli, Ryan F.
Hansen, Chris
Levesque, Jeffrey P.
Tran, Nhan
Agar, Joshua C.
Di Guglielmo, Giuseppe
Mauel, Michael E.
Navratil, Gerald A.
author_facet Wei, Yumou
Forelli, Ryan F.
Hansen, Chris
Levesque, Jeffrey P.
Tran, Nhan
Agar, Joshua C.
Di Guglielmo, Giuseppe
Mauel, Michael E.
Navratil, Gerald A.
contents Active feedback control in magnetic confinement fusion devices is desirable to mitigate plasma instabilities and enable robust operation. Optical high-speed cameras provide a powerful, non-invasive diagnostic and can be suitable for these applications. In this study, we process fast camera data, at rates exceeding 100kfps, on $\textit{in situ}$ Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware to track magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) mode evolution and generate control signals in real-time. Our system utilizes a convolutional neural network (CNN) model which predicts the $n$=1 MHD mode amplitude and phase using camera images with better accuracy than other tested non-deep-learning-based methods. By implementing this model directly within the standard FPGA readout hardware of the high-speed camera diagnostic, our mode tracking system achieves a total trigger-to-output latency of 17.6$μ$s and a throughput of up to 120kfps. This study at the High Beta Tokamak-Extended Pulse (HBT-EP) experiment demonstrates an FPGA-based high-speed camera data acquisition and processing system, enabling application in real-time machine-learning-based tokamak diagnostic and control as well as potential applications in other scientific domains.
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spellingShingle Low latency optical-based mode tracking with machine learning deployed on FPGAs on a tokamak
Wei, Yumou
Forelli, Ryan F.
Hansen, Chris
Levesque, Jeffrey P.
Tran, Nhan
Agar, Joshua C.
Di Guglielmo, Giuseppe
Mauel, Michael E.
Navratil, Gerald A.
Plasma Physics
Hardware Architecture
Machine Learning
Instrumentation and Detectors
Active feedback control in magnetic confinement fusion devices is desirable to mitigate plasma instabilities and enable robust operation. Optical high-speed cameras provide a powerful, non-invasive diagnostic and can be suitable for these applications. In this study, we process fast camera data, at rates exceeding 100kfps, on $\textit{in situ}$ Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware to track magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) mode evolution and generate control signals in real-time. Our system utilizes a convolutional neural network (CNN) model which predicts the $n$=1 MHD mode amplitude and phase using camera images with better accuracy than other tested non-deep-learning-based methods. By implementing this model directly within the standard FPGA readout hardware of the high-speed camera diagnostic, our mode tracking system achieves a total trigger-to-output latency of 17.6$μ$s and a throughput of up to 120kfps. This study at the High Beta Tokamak-Extended Pulse (HBT-EP) experiment demonstrates an FPGA-based high-speed camera data acquisition and processing system, enabling application in real-time machine-learning-based tokamak diagnostic and control as well as potential applications in other scientific domains.
title Low latency optical-based mode tracking with machine learning deployed on FPGAs on a tokamak
topic Plasma Physics
Hardware Architecture
Machine Learning
Instrumentation and Detectors
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00128