CSIT: An Open Source and interactive GUI based tool for learning and analyzing Control Systems

Abstract

This paper presents the development and features of a Scilab based user-friendly CSIT (Control Systems Interactive Tool). It is an Open Source Graphical User Interface (GUI) tool that contains basic functions to learn and analyze Control Systems at undergraduate and graduate levels. Using this tool, one can compare the system plots and parameters of different systems in time and frequency domains. The tool also supports a “know concept” button, represented in the form of “?” symbol adjacent to the function to display the concept related to the function. A student is not required to learn any programming language to use this tool.