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This new control scheme has just been successfully demonstrated for the first time on the ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) tokamak. The location of the plasma boundary, used in the control of the plasma column position, was tracked in real-time (RT) using dedicated algorithms and a new approach that combines the reflectometry edge profile and a scaled line integrated density measurement from interferometry. Although feasibility studies on the viability of this method had been previously conducted at AUG, the capabilities required to produce this on-line demonstration were only incorporated in the diagnostic after a recent upgrade of its data acquisition and processing hardware. 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