Putting the user in a position where they can easily imagine that they're a human physically controlling the real thing. Think of what I'm trying to build as like a flight simulator game for a NPP. What matters most is the authenticity of that human-machine interface, not how the machine...
It would be a much easier task in my case as I'm only interested in simulating the feel - the model only needs to be as accurate as is necessary to support the workflow, and where things are too complex or time consuming to model they can be fudged. It'd certainly not be useful as a training...
I'm toying around with the idea of writing a simulator, ideally for a less automated and relatively operator workload-heavy reactor like the pre-Chernobyl RBMK design (as watching a machine run itself is no fun), and I'm trying to find information on the function of an actual control room's...