Control System Toolbox™ 8.1

Product Description

• Introduction and Key Features
• Working with Control System Toolbox
• Creating and Manipulating Linear Models
• Analyzing Models
• Designing Single-Loop Control Systems
• Designing Multi-Loop Control Systems

Designing Single-Loop Control Systems

Control System Toolbox provides command-line and GUI tools for designing SISO control systems. With the SISO Design Tool GUI you can:

• Design common control components, such as proportional integral derivatives (PIDs), lead/lag networks, and notch filters
• Automatically tune controllers using algorithms, such as Ziegler-Nichols, Internal Model Control (IMC), and Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) design
• Graphically tune SISO loops using classical tools, such as root locus, Bode diagrams, or Nichols charts
• Monitor closed-loop responses and performance requirements in real time while tuning your controller
• Evaluate design factors, such as choice of sample time and controller complexity

When used with Simulink Control Design, the SISO Design Tool lets you tune controllers directly in Simulink. When used with Simulink Response Optimization, it lets you optimize the control system parameters to enforce time and frequency-based performance requirements. When used with Robust Control Toolbox, it lets you automatically shape open-loop responses using H-infinity algorithms.

Interactive compensator design in Simulink. You can access the Control Systems Toolbox functionality from within Simulink by using Simulink Control Design (available separately). Click on image to see enlarged view.

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