Simulink® Control Design™

Beginning a Compensator Design Task

This chapter continues the magball example from Example Model: The Magnetic Ball System.

Before you begin this compensator design example, close the Control and Estimation Tools Manager and the magball model, if you have them open, to make sure you are working with a fresh version of the magball model. You do not need to save any projects or any changes to the model.

To begin a new compensator design task for the magball model:

1. Enter magball at the MATLAB^® command line to open the magball model.

2. Select Tools > Control Design > Compensator Design from the magball window.

   The Control and Estimation Tools Manager opens and creates a new compensator design task, as shown in the following figure.

The project tree in the left pane of the Control and Estimation Tools Manager now shows a Simulink Compensator Design Task node as part of Project - magball in addition to the Operating Points node. You can select a node within the tree to display its contents in the right pane.

• For information on the Tunable Blocks pane within the Simulink Compensator Design Task node, refer to Picking Blocks to Tune.

• For information on the Closed-Loop Signals pane within the Simulink Compensator Design Task node, refer to Selecting Closed-Loop Responses to Design.

• For information on the Operating Points node or the Operating Points pane within the Simulink Compensator Design Task node, refer to Selecting an Operating Point.

What Is Compensator Design?

Picking Blocks to Tune