A Matlab-Based User-Friendly Graphical Environment for Control System Analysis and Design (COSAD)

摘要

A user-friendly and comprehensive control system design tool called Control System Analysis and Design (COSAD) is presented. Actually it is a typical graphical environment built on the plaftorm of MATLAB 4.2.c (the system editing, analysis and design functions are carried out via pull-down menus, push buttons, radio buttons, check and dialgue boxes etc.), which uses the Graphical User Utilities Libraries of Matlab [1-2]. Our motivation for designing this tool is that there are many benefits to be gained by having available software for system analysis and control system design, which does not require any computer code writing. The objective is that users of COSAD system can design and simulate controllers, even if they don't have much experience in control system design and without having to spend most of ttheir time writing, debugging and perfecting their own programs, in fields such as education, research and practical engineering applications.