Singular perturbation stability conditions for adaptive control of a solar furnace with actuator dynamics

A solar furnace is a thermodynamic device that concentrates sun radiation in order to achieve high temperatures at a focus, where a sample of the material to be tested is located. This paper address the problem of designing a control architecture for solar furnaces. It is motivated by the use of a solar furnace as an instrument in material science research to perform two types of experimental tests. In first type, samples are tested in high...