From 20c499ac358fd2a43969013b738e6383333d3058 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dane Sabo Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2026 13:49:24 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Auto sync: 2026-02-09 13:49:24 (2 files changed) M .DS_Store M 3-research-approach/v2.tex --- .DS_Store | Bin 8196 -> 8196 bytes 3-research-approach/v2.tex | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+) diff --git a/.DS_Store b/.DS_Store index 5611d094dfaedac1603f24b33003f8518ae93202..ac024b12d09ae12d0a5767c65f51f6764d29a01b 100644 GIT binary patch delta 145 zcmZp1XmOa}&nUGqU^hRb)Mg%muZ)v-3##)Zl@}Kz<>V(ZFfi<#d`6(qL$bQs$jH!C zN5RP4xK>A@+S15CN5S00sJ51qLsVJcIw(FnCpRy@8>j&Y7#Sfn122?@Q9YA)2x{?^ d1sCPzRBrw!_=IIMyTo^v%{PVFm;np?BsBm4 delta 42 ycmZp1XmOa}&nU4mU^hRb#AY6WuZ)}3gdehOY*1y~%r5brWwWx_6UL1VN{j$C6b?iH diff --git a/3-research-approach/v2.tex b/3-research-approach/v2.tex index f06e08b..21aa7d2 100644 --- a/3-research-approach/v2.tex +++ b/3-research-approach/v2.tex @@ -319,6 +319,36 @@ complex but deterministic behavior. % talk a bit about tools here like FRET. Talk about previous attempts. +Human control of nuclear power can be divided into three different scopes: +strategic, operational, and tactical. Strategic control is the high-level and +long term decision making for the plant. This level has objectives that are +complex and economic in scale, such as managing labor needs and supply chains to +optimize sheduled maintenence and downtime. The time scale on this level of +control is long, often over months or years. The lowest level of control is the +tactical level. This is the individual control of pumps, turbines, and +chemistry of the plant. This level of control has already been somewhat +automated today in nuclear power, and is generally considered 'automatic +control' when autonomous. These controls are almost always continuous systems, +and have a direct impact on the physical state of the plant. Tactical control +objectives are things like maintaining a pressurizer level, maintaining a +certain core temperature, or adjusting reactivity with a chemical shim. The level of +control linking these two levels, then, is the operational control scope. +Operational control is the primary responsibility of human operators today. +Operational control takes the current strategic objective, and implements +tactical control objectives to drive the plant towards strategic goals. In this +way, it is the bridge between high and low level goals. A strategic goal may be +to perform refueling at a certain time, while the tactical level of the plant +currently is focused on mainting a certain core temperature. The operational +level is what issues the shutdown procedure of the plant, using several smaller +tactical goals along the way to achieve this objective. Thus, the combination of +the operational and tactical level of the plant fundamentally forms a hybrid +controller. The tactical level is the continuous evolution of the plant +according to the control input and control law, while the operational level is a +discrete state evolution which determines the tactical control law to reach +different operational states. + + + %%%%%%%%%%%% Building continuous controllers % The whole point of a hybrid system is that there are continuous components