VIEnCoD-proposal of an environment CACSD in the support to the control system development cycle based on VXIbus/LabWindows and MATLAB platform

Abstract

The present paper presents the proposal of an integrated environment CACSD (computer-aided control system design) aimed at the study and design of controllers for several applications, from positioning systems to thermal and chemical processes. Such flexibility is provided by the VXIbus-LabWindows/CVI platform and Matlab tools employed. The integration of these two way resources will be described to give integral support to the whole control system development cycle, from the phase of identification and modelling of the plant to the controller's synthesis. Concluding, a case study is presented.