Estimation of X-mode first fringe frequency using neural networks
Talk about the "Estimation of X-mode first fringe frequency using neural networks" presented in the 27th IEEE Symposium On Fusion Engineering on June 8th 2017 in Shanghai, China
E. Aguiam [email protected] D.E. Aguiam1, A. Silva1, P.J. Carvalho1, G.D. Conway3, B. Gonçalves1, L. Guimarãis1, L. Meneses1, J.M. Noterdaeme3,6, J. Santos1, A.A. Tuccillo4 , O. Tudisco4, and the ASDEX Upgrade Team3 1Ins%tuto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Ins%tuto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-‐001 Lisboa, Portugal 3Max-‐Planck-‐Ins%tut für Plasmaphysik, Boltzmannstr. 2, D-‐85748 Garching, Germany 4ENEA, Dipar%mento FSN, C. R. Frasca%, via E. Fermi 45, 00044 Frasca% (Roma), Italy 6Ghent University, Applied Physics Department, B-‐9000 Gent, Belgium !
D.E. Aguiam | June 8th 2017 | SOFE2017, Shanghai, China | 2 D. E. Aguiam, et al, “ImplementaUon of the new mulUchannel X-‐ mode edge density profile reflectometer for the ICRF antenna on ASDEX Upgrade,” Rev. Sci. Instrum., 87, 2016. 8 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 -1.0 -0.5 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.00 1.25 1.50 1.75 2.00 2.25 2.50 1 4 -121 -115 -108 -100 -93 -87 Toroidal angle [º] Radius [m] Z [m] Lines of sight AUG ICRF Antenna 4 • Three reflectometry observation points embedded along the ICRF antenna at different poloidal and toroidal locations • Designed to measure edge density profiles from zero density using X-mode upper cut off • Aimed to contribute to ICRF operation studies, such as power coupling – These studies require radial resolutions in the order of mm
the plasma • Waves are reflected at a cut off layer, depending on polarization, local plasma electron density and magnetic field • The delay of the reflected wave is measured against the probing frequency • Extraordinary mode (X-mode) propagation has two cut off regions • The upper cut off reflection can be used to probe the plasma from the near zero density • Undesired lower cut off reflection may also appear in the probing band for high core density plasmas τg (fp ) D.E. Aguiam | June 8th 2017 | SOFE2017, Shanghai, China | 3 Reflectometry cut off frequencies Probing band Density profile τg (fp )
off reflection can occur anywhere in the probing band, depending on the magnetic field • The first upper cut off reflection occurs at the First Fringe frequency (FF) • Lower cut off reflection also appears in the probing band in high core density plasmas • Only the upper cut off reflection signal is used for edge density profile reconstruction D.E. Aguiam | June 8th 2017 | SOFE2017, Shanghai, China | 4 Increasing B0
D.E. Aguiam | June 8th 2017 | SOFE2017, Shanghai, China | 5 1. Measurement of the group delay 1. Initialization of the upper cut off reflection • Distinguishing start of consistent plasma reflection signal • Distinguishing lower and upper cut off reflections 2. Determination of group delay measurement • Determined at the peak reflection power for each probing frequency 2. Reconstruction method • We use the procedure described in Mazzucato RSI 1998 3. Magnetic field profile equilibrium • From ASDEX Upgrade magnetic equilibrium codes This work Dedicated to improving the esUmaUon of the First Fringe frequency (FF)
of the upper cut off First Fringe frequency – Reduce uncertainty in the initialization of the X-mode upper cut off reflection 1. Why do we need a good FF estimation? 2. The automatic ampfilt FF estimation algorithm 3. Implementation of the new neural network model for FF estimation 4. Comparison of estimation errors and reconstructed density profiles D.E. Aguiam | June 8th 2017 | SOFE2017, Shanghai, China | 6
| June 8th 2017 | SOFE2017, Shanghai, China | 7 • A 200 MHz mismatch in FF estimation may result in an up to 9.5 mm density profile variation • Profile shape is also influenced by FF estimation as error is integrated along profile Wall Separatrix
8th 2017 | SOFE2017, Shanghai, China | 8 • Based on DIII-D algorithm described in (Wang RSI 2003) – Uses both amplitude and spectral information, and filtering techniques to estimate FF value • Good FF estimation for most cases with a only upper cut off • Updated to estimate FF in the presence lower cut off reflection • ampfilt error measured against a known FF dataset with 2209 cases: – Average error: 417 MHz – Standard deviation: 675 MHz G. Wang, et al, “Improved reflectometer electron density profile measurements on DIII-‐D,” Rev. Sci. Instrum., 74, 2003. Only upper cut off reflecUon Upper and lower cut off reflecUons
initialization • The FF frequency was estimated for a discharge using the ampfilt algorithm • However, there is much jitter indicating an imprecise FF estimation (> 1 GHz) • The imprecision is increased with lower cut off reflection in the high core ne region • A Kalman Filter is used to improve the FF estimation precision by tracking the previous estimations D.E. Aguiam | June 8th 2017 | SOFE2017, Shanghai, China | 9 Varying B0 Separatrix posiUon scan High core ne region Reconstructed density profiles AUG#33841 Region with lower cut off reflecUon
experience where the plasma upper cut off reflection signal should start – However, this is hard to perform automatically – Even sophisticated FF estimation algorithms may have imprecise results or fail D.E. Aguiam | June 8th 2017 | SOFE2017, Shanghai, China | 10 What if an algorithm could mimic human pattern recognition for FF estimation?
computational models used for machine learning – Consist of multiple layers of interconnected neurons – Their weights are recalculated during training to perform different tasks • Many open source tools are now available making it easy to create and use neural networks D.E. Aguiam | June 8th 2017 | SOFE2017, Shanghai, China | 11 TensorFlow, the TensorFlow logo and any related marks are trademarks of Google Inc. F. Chollet, et al, “Keras,” GitHub, 2015. [Online]. Available: hmps://github.com/ fchollet/keras. A. Agarwal, et al, “TensorFlow: Large-‐ Scale Machine Learning on Heterogeneous Systems,” White Pap., 2015. Available: hmp://tensorflow.org/ Weights Weights
X-mode First Fringe frequency estimation? Is this model able to produce more precise results than the ampfilt algorithm? D.E. Aguiam | June 8th 2017 | SOFE2017, Shanghai, China | 12
estimation 1. Build an experimental dataset with known FF 2. Preprocessing the dataset 3. Define the model for neural network 4. Training the neural network D.E. Aguiam | June 8th 2017 | SOFE2017, Shanghai, China | 13
the 2016 ASDEX Upgrade campaign • 47 distinct discharges were used to create the training universe • Total of 2209 experimental cases • Variability of dataset cases: – 2.6% during ELM events – During heating operation • ICRH power: 14.2% • ECRH power: 56.8% • NBI power: 34.3% – 24.5% also with lower cut off reflection D.E. Aguiam | June 8th 2017 | SOFE2017, Shanghai, China | 14 • Experienced X-mode reflectometry diagnosticians selected the FF frequency for each of the cases
2017 | SOFE2017, Shanghai, China | 15 1. From the raw dataset we obtain the spectrogram and FF value 2. A Region of Interest (RoI) is defined between the fce at the wall and at the separatrix, where the FF result must be located 3. The RoI is further delimited between the beat frequency limits 4. The signal outside the RoI is removed 5. The input data is the spectrogram result zeroed outside the RoI 6. The probing frequency range is discretized into distinct FF values
signature is similar for cases in the vicinity of the FF frequency • Then new data can be created by shifting the RoI and FF result in the vicinity of FF • The resulting extended dataset contains 112 659 training cases – Each case generates 51 new cases • Dataset is split: – 90% for training the network – 10% only for validating the trained network D.E. Aguiam | June 8th 2017 | SOFE2017, Shanghai, China | 16
Neural Network – Interpret the 2D spectrogram image (Short-Time Fourier Transform) of raw signal as input – Output prediction is certainty of FF being one of the discreet possible values D.E. Aguiam | June 8th 2017 | SOFE2017, Shanghai, China | 17 Input spectrogram image with 127x268 pixels
China | 18 • The sparse dataset does not cover all possible FF values – Leading to high error variation in underrepresented regions • A much better FF coverage may be obtained by using the extended dataset – Accuracy and precision are increased for the whole FF range 4. Training the neural network Error of extended NN measured against validaUon set: Average error: 160 MHz Standard deviaUon: 180 MHz Sparse dataset distribuUon Extended dataset distribuUon Error of sparse NN measured against validaUon set: Average error: 590 MHz Standard deviaUon: 890 MHz
• A complete discharge was reconstructed using the NN model for FF frequency estimation • The estimation jitter is low (< 500 MHz) and not much affected by the presence of the lower cut off • Small variation of the vacuum distance throughout the discharge – This is expected, since reflectometry antennas are in the shadow of the ICRF limiter D.E. Aguiam | June 8th 2017 | SOFE2017, Shanghai, China | 19 Constant vacuum distance
2017 | SOFE2017, Shanghai, China | 20 • Both reconstructions can observe radial separatrix variation • The NN approach has a much better precision than the ampfilt algorithm – The FF estimation has less jitter in the same range • Reconstructed profile with NN seems more reliable, due to constant vacuum distance – However, there is no true radial error estimation for the whole discharge AUG#33841
directly dependent on a good FF initialization ü We have successfully implemented a neural network model for X- mode reflectometry First Fringe frequency estimation ü The FF estimation error was reduced to 160 MHz (NN model) from 417 MHz (ampfilt) within the known data set ü Estimation precision was also improved from 675 MHz to 180 MHz o Evaluation of reconstructed density profiles using both methods and other diagnostics is still a work in progress D.E. Aguiam | June 8th 2017 | SOFE2017, Shanghai, China | 21
P.J. Carvalho1, G.D. Conway3, B. Gonçalves1, L. Guimarãis1, L. Meneses1, J.M. Noterdaeme3,6, J. Santos1, A.A. Tuccillo4 , O. Tudisco4, and the ASDEX Upgrade Team3 1Ins%tuto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Ins%tuto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-‐001 Lisboa, Portugal 3Max-‐Planck-‐Ins%tut für Plasmaphysik, Boltzmannstr. 2, D-‐85748 Garching, Germany 4ENEA, Dipar%mento FSN, C. R. Frasca%, via E. Fermi 45, 00044 Frasca% (Roma), Italy 6Ghent University, Applied Physics Department, B-‐9000 Gent, Belgium !
Aguiam | June 8th 2017 | SOFE2017, Shanghai, China | 23 The mean and standard deviaUon of the validaCon error stabilized at less than 200 MHz aper 15 training epochs without overfiqng Sparse dataset distribuUon ampfilt error distribuUon Error of extended NN measured against validaUon set: Average error: 160 MHz Standard deviaUon: 180 MHz Error of sparse NN measured against validaUon set: Average error: 590 MHz Standard deviaUon: 890 MHz Error of ampfilt measured against validaUon set: Average error: 417 MHz Standard deviaUon: 675 MHz
2017 | SOFE2017, Shanghai, China | 24 G. Wang, et al, “Improved reflectometer electron density profile measurements on DIII-‐D,” Rev. Sci. Instrum., vol. 74, no. 3 II, pp. 1525–1529, 2003. 1. FF search is restricted to the probing frequencies between fce at the wall and at the separatrix 2. A rough FF is estimated from the highest amplitude rise in this region 3. We estimate the average frequency in the small region 4. The raw signal is filtered around this frequency 5. The FF frequency is at an estimated amplitude threshold of the filtered signal The ampfilt algorithm is based on DIII-D algorithm described in (Wang RSI 2003) that uses both amplitude and spectral information for First Fringe estimation
reflection D.E. Aguiam | June 8th 2017 | SOFE2017, Shanghai, China | 25 • Good FF estimation for most cases with a only upper cut off • Also capable of FF estimation in the presence lower cut off reflection – A selection procedure detects if lower cut off reflection is present based on signal amplitude in the regions – FF frequency estimated to be at the peak of the beat frequency in the region • ampfilt error measured against a known FF dataset with 2209 cases: – Average error: 417 MHz G. W profi 74, n T th
2017 | SOFE2017, Shanghai, China | 26 Probing frequency range: 40-68 GHz Operation measurement limits: 1.86 T < ||B0 || < 2.97 T High core density plasmas result in lower cut off reflection also appearing in the measurement