Computer Aided Control Systems Design
Abstract
This paper refglects our experience with Computer Aided Control System
Design (CACSD). A first section briefly presents a CACSD-system for
student use (INTOPS) which has been developed by our group some years
ago. Our experience with this software system is outlined. A second
section discusses a few state-of-the-art CACSD-systems developed by
other research groups. In particular, the systems developed by
K.J. Åström and his group are mentioned (SIMNON, IDPAC,
MODPAC, POLPAC, and SYNPAC), as they seem to be among the most advanced
systems currently available. A next chapter discusses the advents of a
more general expression parser at hand of the MATLAB matrix
manipulation program. It is shown that, though MATLAB was not really
designed for the implementation of control algorithms, many control
problems can be formulated and solved very elegantly by means of
MATLAB. A new CACSD-system (IMPACT), which is currently under
development by our group, is then presented. This system shall enhance
the capabilities of MATLAB by encompassing additional operations and
data structures particularly useful in control system analysis and
design. A final chapter concludes this discussion by mentioning some
perspectives for further development.
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