Control System Toolbox 8

Design and analyze control systems

Control System Toolbox provides tools for
systematically analyzing, designing, and
tuning linear control systems. You can
specify a linear model of your system, plot
its time and frequency responses to understand how the system behaves, tune the
controller parameters using automated and
interactive techniques, and verify performance requirements, such as rise time and
gain/phase margins. Workflow-based
graphical user interfaces (GUIs) guide you
through each step of the analysis and
design process.

Key features
Enables design of single-loop and multi-loop control systems
using a variety of classical and state-space techniques
Lets you analyze system responses and performance using a
GUI or command-line functions
Manually or automatically tunes SISO loops in Simulink models
(with Simulink Control Design, available separately)
Optimizes control system performance to meet time- and
frequency-based requirements (with Simulink Response
Optimization, available separately)
Represents and manipulates linear models as transferfunction, state-space, zero-pole-gain, and frequency-response
data objects
Converts between model representations, discretizes continuoustime models, and computes low-order approximations of highorder systems
Uses state-of-the-art algorithms built on the LAPACK and
SLICOT libraries for optimal performance and accuracy

Control and Estimation Tools

Manager (above), a workflowbased GUI that lets you perform
interactive design, graphical
tuning, and analysis of compensators (right).

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Proportional-integral-derivative (PID)
tuning with the Control and Estimation
Tools Manager, which provides automated tuning algorithms for stable and
unstable systems.

Working with Control

System Toolbox

Creating and Manipulating

Linear Models

Linear control techniques are the foundation of control system design and analysis.
Control System Toolbox lets you create
linear models of your control system. Using
interactive visualization tools, you can
analyze these models to gain insight into the
control systems behavior, performance, and
limitations. You can also systematically tune
the control system parameters using singleand multi-loop design techniques.

Control System Toolbox lets you represent and manipulate linear models of
dynamic systems as objects. All standard
representations are supported, including
transfer function, zero-pole-gain, explicit
and descriptor state space, and frequency
response data. Linear models can be SISO,
MIMO, continuous, or discrete. In addition, you can accurately model and simulate
systems with time delays, including feedback loops with delays.

The linear models from Control System

Toolbox can be used in other control design
products, such as Robust Control Toolbox
and Model Predictive Control Toolbox.
Together with Simulink Control Design and
Simulink Response Optimization, Control
System Toolbox provides a comprehensive,
GUI-driven toolset for analyzing and tuning
control systems built in Simulink.

Control System Toolbox provides commands for:

Performing arithmetic on linear models
Building complex block diagrams by connecting simple models in series, parallel,
or feedback
Discretizing continuous-time models
Computing low-order approximations of
high-order models
You can also use the LTI block to bring
linear model objects into Simulink.

Building a linear model of your plant is

usually the first step in designing a control
system. If no plant model is available, you
can build one by fitting test data using
System Identification Toolbox, or by linearizing a Simulink model using Simulink
Control Design (both available separately).
Either model can be imported into Control
System Toolbox as an object. Once you have
created an object that represents your plant,
you can use Control System Toolbox to
analyze and control it.

Analyzing Models
Control System Toolbox provides extensive GUIs and command-line functions
for analyzing linear systems. Using the LTI
Viewer, you can view and compare the time
and frequency responses of several linear
models at once. You can also inspect key
performance parameters, such as rise time,
maximum overshoot, and stability margins.
Available plots include step, impulse, Bode,
Nichols, Nyquist, singular value, and pole/
zero plots. You can simulate the response to
user-defined inputs and initial conditions to
further investigate system performance.

Designing Single-Loop
Control Systems
Control System Toolbox provides
command-line and GUI tools for designing
SISO control systems. With the SISO Design
Tool GUI you can:
Design common control components, such
as proportional integral derivatives (PIDs),
lead/lag networks, and notch filters
Automatically tune controllers using algorithms, such as Ziegler-Nichols, Internal
Model Control (IMC), and LinearQuadratic-Gaussian (LQG) design
Graphically tune SISO loops using classical
tools, such as root locus, Bode diagrams, or
Nichols charts

Monitor closed-loop responses and performance requirements in real time while

tuning your controller
Evaluate design factors, such as choice of
sample time and controller complexity
When used with Simulink Control Design,
the SISO Design Tool lets you tune controllers directly in Simulink. When used with
Simulink Response Optimization, it lets
you optimize the control system parameters
to enforce time and frequency-based performance requirements. When used with
Robust Control Toolbox, it lets you automatically shape open-loop responses using
H-infinity algorithms.

Interactive compensator design in Simulink. You can

access the Control Systems Toolbox functionality from
within Simulink by using Simulink Control Design
(available separately).

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Designing Multi-Loop
Control Systems
Control System Toolbox supports established methods for MIMO design, including
LQG and pole placement algorithms. It
also provides tools for designing observers,
including Kalman filters.
You can use the SISO Design Tool from
within Simulink Control Design to tune
multi-loop controllers consisting of several
SISO loops. You can close SISO loops
sequentially, visualize loop interactions,
and iteratively tune each loop for best
overall performance. You can then export
the tuned parameters to Simulink and
further validate the design through nonlinear simulation.

Required Products
MATLAB

Related Products
Simulink. Simulation and Model-Based
Design
Robust Control Toolbox. Design robust
controllers for plants with uncertain
parameters and unmodeled dynamics
Simulink Control Design. Design and
analyze control systems in Simulink
Simulink Response Optimization.
Optimize parameters in Simulink models
System Identification Toolbox. Create
linear and nonlinear dynamic models from
measured input-output data

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