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Citation
Rigelsford, J. (2001), "System Design through MATLAB1, Control Toolbox and SIMULINK1", Assembly Automation, Vol. 21 No. 2, pp. 178-183. https://doi.org/10.1108/aa.2001.21.2.178.3
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
This book aims to provide an easy to use introduction to computations and simulations through the use of MATLAB1. MATLAB1 is a powerful software package developed by The MathWorks, Inc. for scientific and technical mathematical modelling. More advanced problems associated with system engineering are addressed along with the real‐world simulation package SIMULINK1.
After an introductory section, chapter 1 discusses system representation and modelling, and covers how to make a model and the properties of a model. Chapter 2, “Model manipulation”, presents the precedence rule and the law of property inheritance, arithmetical operations on models, interconnection of models, and the linear time invariant (LTI) subsystem. The following chapter addresses Getting Information from the Models.
Chapters 4 and 5 discuss model analysis and the Control System Toolbox’s GUIs, respectively. Topics covered in these sections include model dynamics of control systems, state space, frequency and time response analysis of control systems, the LTI viewer, and the root locus design GUI. Control System Design through SIMULINK1 is addressed in chapter 6.
Chapter 7 discusses the design of compensators for systems, and includes classical and modern methods for design; solving Lyapunov’s equations and stability, and optimal compensators. The final chapters address simple and complex applications, respectively. These include electrical, mechanical, thermal and fluid systems; dc motors; plunger systems; a pacemaker; inverted pendulum on a cart problem, and an essential oil extraction plant.
Overall, System Design through MATLAB1, Control Toolbox and SIMULINK1 is a very well written and easy to use reference text. It is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and researchers involved with simulations and system engineering.