MATLAB®, a software package developed by Math Works, Inc. is powerful, versatile and interactive software for scientific and technical computations including simulations. Specialised toolboxes provided with several built-in functions are a special feature of MATLAB®. System Design through MATLAB®, Control Toolbox and Simulink® **** gets the reader started with computations and simulations in system engineering quickly and easily and then proceeds to build concepts for advanced computations and simulations that includes the control and compensation of systems. Simulation through Simulink® has also been described to allow the reader to get the feel of the real-world situation. Material covered includes:

• system representation and modelling;
• model manipulation and analysis;
• GUIs for the Control System Toolbox;
• control-system design with Simulink®;
• compensator design; and
• simple and complex applications.
  This book is appropriate for undergraduate students undergoing final semester of their project work, postgraduate students who have MATLAB® integrated in their course or wish to take up simulation problem in the area of system engineering for their dissertation work and research scholars for whom MATLAB®, along with its associated toolboxes and Simulink® is an Indispensable took for simulation.

MATLAB is now an essential tool of most engineers MATLAB is a complicated application and users like help - the more basic the better Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt

1. System Representation and Modeling.- 1.1 Properties of the Models.- 1.2 Creating a Model.- Exercise for Chapter 1.- 2. Model Manipulation.- 2.1 The Precedence Rule and the Law of Property Inheritance.- 2.2 Arithmetic Operations on Models.- 2.3 Interconnection of Models.- 2.4 The Linear Time Invariant (LTI) Subsystem.- Exercise for Chapter 2.- 3. Getting Information from the Models.- 3.1 Model-specific Information.- 3.2 Direct Property Referencing Method of Getting Information.- 3.3 The 'get' Function.- 3.4 Information about Model Dimensions and Characteristics.- 3.5 Conversion of Models.- 3.6 A Few Words on Model Properties Again.- Exercise for Chapter 3.- 4. Model Analysis.- 4.1 Model Dynamics of Control System.- 4.2 Time Response Analysis of Control Systems.- 4.3 Frequency Response Analysis of Control Systems.- 4.4 State Space Analysis of Control Systems.- Exercise for Chapter 4.- 5. The Control System Toolbox's GUIs.- 5.1 The LTI Viewer.- 5.2 The Root Locus Design GUI.- Exercise for Chapter 5.- 6. Control System Design through Simulink®.- 6.1 System Representation/Modeling.- 6.2 Model Manipulation.- 6.3 Model Analysis.- 6.4 The Simulink® LTI Viewer.- 6.5 A Few Words of Caution.- Exercise for Chapter 6.- 7. Design of Compensators for Systems.- 7.1 Classical Methods for Design.- 7.2 Solution of Lyapunov's Equation and Stability.- 7.3 Modern Methods for Design.- 7.4 Design of Optimal Compensators.- Exercise for Chapter 7.- 8. Some Simple Applications.- 8.1 Which Method to Choose.- 8.2 Electrical Systems.- 8.3 Mechanical System.- 8.4 Fluid Systems.- 8.5 Thermal Systems.- Exercise for Chapter 8.- 9. Some Complex Applications.- 9.1 DC Motors.- 9.2 Plunger System.- 9.3 Power-generating Systems.- 9.4 Power-plant System.- 9.5 Pacemaker System.- 9.6Inverted-pendulum-on-cart System.- 9.7 Essential-oil-extraction Plant.- 9.8 Musical-octave System.- Exercise for Chapter 9.- Appendix A.- Appendix B.- Appendix C.- C.l Plotting some Typical Signals.- Appendix D.- D.l Plotting some Typical Signals.- Appendix E.- References.