ANZCC 2019 Paper Abstract

Paper TA1.3

Rapson, Chris (AUT)

Control Systems Challenges for Nuclear Fusion

Scheduled for presentation during the Regular Session "Complex and Nonlinear Systems" (TA1), Thursday, November 28, 2019, 10:45−11:00, WZ Building Room WZ416

2019 Australian & New Zealand Control Conference (ANZCC), November 27-29, 2019, Auckland, New Zealand

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Keywords Complex Systems, Robust Control and Systems, Sensor/data fusion

Abstract

Nuclear fusion has incredible potential as an energy source, but there are still many technical problems to solve. This presentation will explain some of the challenges associated with controlling something 10 times hotter than the core of the sun.