Architecture
A four-loop control system.
Every loop is instrument-agnostic. We connect to whatever you already have, wrap it in physics-aware interpretation, and expose decisions back to the hardware or to a human reviewer.
Multi-channel data ingestion
PMT, Timepix3, spectrometers, oscilloscopes, power supplies, PLCs, environmental sensors. We normalize streams, tag provenance, and flag missing or stale data before it reaches the interpretation layer.
Physics-aware anomaly detection
Agents model the expected instrument response from first principles. They know the difference between a meaningful regime transition and a power-supply glitch — because they know the physics of both.
Policy-driven run control
The agent proposes the next action: continue, pause, sweep a parameter, repeat a run, or escalate. Policies are set by the principal investigator and can be tightened or loosened per experiment.
Closed-loop actuation
Setpoints are written back through safe APIs or SCADA gateways. Irreversible or high-consequence actions require human confirmation; routine optimization runs autonomously.
Safety layer
Hard physics gates before any claim.
Our Archimedes system rejects conclusions that violate dimensional consistency, conservation laws, or known experimental bounds. The agent does not hallucinate a discovery because the gate won't let it.
Dimensional consistency
Every derived quantity is unit-checked before it is reported.
Conservation residuals
Energy, mass, and charge residuals must close within defined tolerance.
Existing-bound check
Predictions are compared against published limits before they become claims.
Provenance log
Every decision, model version, and instrument state is archived.
Applications
Where Lab OS earns its keep.
Hydrogen & plasma electrolysis
Continuous monitoring of pulse parameters, gas output, and emission signatures — with automatic regime classification and next-run suggestions.
Fusion diagnostics
Multi-diagnostic correlation during shots: PMT, interferometry, magnetic probes, and bolometry — all checked against each other in real time.
Advanced reactor test loops
Thermal-hydraulic and materials experiments that run for days or weeks, with agents that pause on anomaly, not on a clock.
Materials synthesis campaigns
Closed-loop parameter exploration for catalysts, coatings, and intermetallics — combining in-situ measurements with Bayesian or physics-guided search.
Radiation & particle detection
Timepix3 and PMT networks with coincidence logic, noise rejection, and automatic calibration drift tracking.
Custom frontier setups
If your experiment has instruments, a hypothesis, and a person who wants to sleep — we can probably build a loop for it.
Why Nornec
We are not a generic AI consultancy.
Nornec is a physics-native practice. The agents we deploy are constrained by the same first-principles discipline we apply to hydrogen plants, nuclear systems, and frontier energy projects. We don't sell dashboards — we ship control loops that know when they don't know.
- ✓ Principal-led, fixed-scope engagements
- ✓ Code and runbooks you own
- ✓ On-prem or private-cloud by default
- ✓ No black-box subscriptions
- 01 Instrument integration spec
- 02 Physics-aware anomaly model
- 03 Agent policy and escalation matrix
- 04 Closed-loop deployment on your stack
- 05 Runbook and hand-off training