Real-Time Plasma Control

The fast feedback system that keeps the plasma stable millisecond to millisecond.

A real-time control system fuses diagnostics and actuators — heating, fuelling, coils — to hold the plasma at its operating point and head off instabilities. It is where plasma physics meets control engineering.

A real-time control system fuses diagnostics and actuators — heating, fuelling, current drive, coils — to hold the plasma at its operating point and trip on faults within milliseconds. It is where plasma physics meets control engineering, and in a driven machine it is what makes the output both steady and adjustable.