Simulink Control Design 3.2

Introduction

Simulink Control Design™ lets you design and analyze control systems modeled in Simulink^®. You can automatically tune the gains of PID controllers to meet performance requirements. With this product you can also nonintrusively find operating points and compute exact linearizations of Simulink models at various operating conditions. Simulink Control Design provides tools for computing simulation-based frequency responses without modifying your model. A GUI lets you design and analyze arbitrary control structures modeled in Simulink, such as cascaded, prefilter, regulation, and multiloop architectures.

Key Features

• Automatic tuning of PID Controller blocks from the Simulink library
• Nonintrusive operating point calculation (trimming) and linearization of Simulink models
• Simulation-based computation of a Simulink model’s frequency response
• Graphical and automated tuning of arbitrary control systems within Simulink
• Numerical optimization of compensators to meet time-domain and frequency-domain requirements (with Simulink Design Optimization™)
• Command-line interface for developing automated linearization scripts and performing batch linearization

Designing and analyzing control systems with Simulink Control Design. A control system modeled in Simulink (top), the PID Tuner GUI (left), and the Bode diagram of the open-loop transfer function (right).