Plasma Control
Individual controllers, discharge scenarios, and a complete plasma control system for next-gen MCF devices — combining conventional robustness with AI/ML flexibility, trained and tested in simulation before live deployment.
Plasma is an inherently unstable, high-dimensional, and rapidly evolving system. Next-gen devices must run at higher performance with tighter limits on shape, position, and stability, while their real-time diagnostics will be limited — so controllers have to be fast, robust, and built on the physics of the device.
Our mission is to accelerate fusion companies by bridging world-class science with deployable, industry-ready solutions. From day one, we help device builders develop controllers and scenarios in simulation, combining conventional robustness with AI/ML flexibility — demonstrated live at DIII-D — with full support through integration, commissioning, and operation.
What We Offer
Individual controllers development
We design and deliver controllers that combine the robustness of conventional control with the flexibility of AI/ML, including reinforcement learning — multi-objective optimization across energy, stability, and operational goals, simulation-based training in the NSFsim environment, and transfer pipelines for moving trained policies to real PCS hardware. Demonstrated live at DIII-D.
Automatic discharge scenario builder
Discharge scenarios tailored to the physics and operational goals of your device — covering initiation, ramp-up, flat-top, and ramp-down, optimized across energy, stability, and operational goals, with actuator limits and stability boundaries respected by design, so scenarios can be simulated before the plasma exists. Built by combining conventional and reinforcement learning techniques.
Controller design and testing
A software environment for developing, training, and testing controllers of plasma shape, position, and other parameters, with standardized interfaces to device models, actuator simulators, and real-time diagnostic streams for software- and hardware-in-the-loop validation before live deployment. We can do the work for you, or provide the environment with NSFsim as a local installation or a web API.
Plasma Control System (PCS)
We aim to provide a plasma control system for MCF devices and future FPPs that combines all of our expertise — integrated modeling, diagnostics, scenario development, and control — designing the full loop from real-time plasma state reconstruction through control decisions to actuator commands, with safety and supervisory interfaces built in from the start.
Building a New Fusion Device?
Plasma control is most effective when developed alongside simulations and diagnostics — we offer all three. Talk to us.
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