This organisation has been created as a space for collaboration on fusionics components.

Definition : Fusionics is to Fusion as Avionics is to Aerospace

In this context, Fusion means fusion energy. The roots of fusionics come from magnetic confinement fusion (MCF). MCF control systems have some requirements which are not immediately met by commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) tools.

There are a number of custom solutions which have been developed through fusion research and development. The goal of the fusionics concept in general, and this fusionics-project collection of repositories in particular is to standardise, popularise, and democratise access to these solutions. It is also expected that in doing this, additional innovation will generate new components, techniques and tools.

Many of the projects in this space are inspired by and supported via contributions from many fusion researchers and other people from labs, academia and companies. All repositories which derive from these earlier works will credit the original authors, cross reference upstream repositories, and cite any accompanying licensing conditions.

Any potential contributors are encouraged to discuss with the project coordinator what IP issues need to be considered before adding to this collection of projects.

This github organisation has been created by Adam Stephen, a fusion researcher working at Culham.
It contains work in progress which is intended to be released back to upstream projects where appropriate, or released as new projects. For any queries about repositories in this collection, please contact mailto:adam.v.stephen@gmail.com

The long term intent for all repositories in this github organisation is for them to become public, and generally open source. During the early development stages, repositories will be kept private until the maturity of the code and quality of the documentation is adequate to justify sharing. Where appropriate, developments in this space which derive from existing projects will be used to form pull requests in the case that the upstream projects have the bandwith to accept contributions. In some cases, this organisation will form a temporary home for community quality contributions to be maintained until such time as the upstream official releases (owned by organisations) are able to adopt and redistribute such works.

This collection of repositories has been created by Adam Stephen who contributes to this area as part of his employment contract with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, and also as volunteer effort where contributing specifically to MARTe2 projects.

Some of the repositories in this collection are being developed with research funding from UKAEA programmes. Funding and IP terms will be clarified in the README and LICENSE files for each such repository. Where work achieves a degree of maturity and quality to qualify for official release via the UKAEA github account, it will be migrated.

The opinions in this space do not officially represent the position of the UKAEA.