Modeling of Dynamic Systems using MATLAB and SIMULINK

Abstract

The Matlab environment, which allows one to integrate user-friendly tools with great computational capabilities, is found to be one of the most useful tools available to model complex dynamic systems, design control algorithms, optimize systems, accomplish data analysis and visualization, perform hardware-in-the-loop simulation, and deploy the developed control laws through generation of C-code using advanced microcontrollers and digital signal processors (DSPs). A family of application-specific toolboxes, with a specialized collection of m-files for solving different problems commonly encountered in engineering practice, provides comprehensiveness in linear and nonlinear analysis and design, system optimization, and synthesis. A great number of books in Matlab and Simulink are available. In addition to the demonstrations and viable help available, the Math-Works educational website can be used for references; see http://education.mathworks.com and http://www.mathworks.com. This section is in-tended to help the designer to use Matlab efficiently, and the author does not intend to substitute the Matlab books available. Only the most basic features will be demonstrated to introduce Matlab and Simulink as well as to show how they can be applied.