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ControlForge Control Toolbox Software
| ControlForge is a graphical robust control toolbox software Matlab package for creating high performance discrete or continuous time controllers with minimal user effort |
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| Controls rapid prototyping |
| Acoustic and structural/acoustic control |
| Flight controls & Sensor/actuator rich systems |
Frequency Domain Design Environment
ControlForge is a frequency domain control design environment for achieving performance and robustness requirements in the presence of realistic model errors, disturbance and sensor noise levels, and real time computational constraints. Design in the frequency domain allows straightforward incorporation of steady state or transient response criteria.
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Figure 2: Menu entry into analysis routines (upper left), data and plant model definition window (lower left) and plots defining MIMO performance and stability for MACE MBP control.
High Level Graphical Interface
ControlForge presents frequency domain design information in a form which allows direct evaluation and tuning of the loops which govern closed loop performance and stability. Loops are evaluated on the true system as represented by the measured data, as well as on the design model. Graphical handles into the frequency and parameter weighting functions, which govern the loop shapes, are provided. The resulting direct control of performance and robustness reduces or eliminates design iterations. The immediate benefits are to allow the controls designer to concentrate on the design problem at hand, as the package handles details at the coding level. As a result the first control design to be implemented may be the last, as it may meet all performance requirements.
Integrated Design Environment
ControlForge is designed to provide a true design environment for a wide range of controlled systems, with attendent design models, robustness requirements, and implementation constraints. The user has the ability to modify existing design and analysis tools (implemented as Matlab functions), or to define and integrate proprietary modeling, control design and analysis code. Analysis and synthesis in the discrete and continuous domains is transparently supported. The structure of ControlForge facilitates code reuse: both of user legacy code, and also by the capability to generate a commented Matlab script file which captures the design iteration cycle in a form which can be documented, distributed, or modified.
For more information:
Please contact Chris Ludlow (Products), or call: 781-306-0609 x227
