The use of symbolic computation in nonlinear control: is it viable?

Author

De Jager, Bram

Author_Institution

Fac. of Mech. Eng., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

Volume

40

Issue

1

fYear

1995

fDate

1/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

84

Lastpage

89

Abstract

To help along the analysis and design of nonlinear control systems the NONLINCON package, an acronym for nonlinear control, was developed. This note addresses the usefulness of symbolic computation, and of the NONLINCON package in particular, for the symbolic analysis and design of nonlinear control systems. The symbolic computation program MAPLE is used as computing substratum. Textbook problems show that the NONLINCON package can be used successfully. A larger scale problem is too complex, however, to be solved with the current versions of NONLINCON and MAPLE. The conclusion is that symbolic computation is a viable approach for textbook problems, but not yet for more complex ones

Keywords

control system CAD; control system analysis computing; nonlinear control systems; software packages; symbol manipulation; MAPLE; NONLINCON package; nonlinear control systems; symbolic computation; Control systems; Differential equations; Jacobian matrices; Mechanical engineering; Nonlinear control systems; Nonlinear systems; Observability; Packaging; Partial differential equations; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9286

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/9.362897

Filename

362897