Tool for design of multiple single-input-single-output control loops

In an electronic device, a method of manipulating a dynamic system representation having a plurality of distributed single input single output (SISO) compensators, the method comprising:

• providing a simulation environment for simulating the dynamic system representation having the plurality of distributed SISO compensators, a SISO compensator representing an algorithm that computes commands for a plurality of components of the dynamic system representation, the dynamic system representation modeled in the simulation environment using one or more of differential equations, difference equations and algebraic equations;
• generating, in the simulation environment, a linearized dynamic system representation by linearizing the dynamic system representation having the plurality of distributed SISO compensators;
• modifying a parameter in a first SISO compensator of the plurality of distributed SISO compensators with a modification in accordance with an input, the parameter having a value representative of a substantially constant characteristic of the dynamic system representation;
• the first SISO compensator generating a resulting output;
• automatically updating one or more parameters of a remainder of the plurality of SISO compensators of the linearized dynamic system representation based on the modification to the parameter in the first SISO compensator and the resulting output of the first SISO compensator, the updating occurring contemporaneous with and resulting from the modification to the parameter and the first SISO compensator generating the resulting output, the remainder of the plurality of SISO compensators including a second SISO compensator and a third SISO compensator;
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• simultaneously displaying a first plot of an output of the second SISO compensator and a second plot of an output of the third SISO compensator to a user.

An electronic device, comprising:

• a simulation environment for simulating a dynamic system representation having a plurality of distributed single input single output (SISO) compensators, a SISO compensator representing an algorithm that computes one or more commands for a plurality of components of the dynamic system representation, the dynamic system representation is modeled in the simulation environment using one or more of differential equations, difference equations and algebraic equations;
• a linearization mechanism for generating a linearized dynamic system representation in the simulation environment by linearizing the dynamic system representation having the plurality of distributed SISO compensators;
• an interface for instructing a modification to a parameter of a first SISO compensator of the plurality of distributed SISO compensators, the parameter having a value representative of a substantially constant characteristic of the dynamic system representation;
• an update mechanism for automatically updating one or more parameters of a remainder of the plurality of SISO compensators of the linearized dynamic system based on the modification to the parameter of the first SISO compensator and a resulting output of the first SISO compensator, the update mechanism performing the updating contemporaneous with and as a result of the modification to the parameter of the first SISO, the remainder of the plurality of SISO compensators including a second SISO compensator and a third SISO compensator;
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• a display device for simultaneously displaying a first plot of an output of the second SISO compensator and a second plot of an output of the third SISO compensator to a user.

A medium holding one or more computer executable instructions for manipulating a dynamic system representation having a plurality of distributed single input single output (SISO) compensators, the medium comprising one or more instructions for:

• providing a graphical user interface (GUI) associated with a simulation environment for simulating the control system representation, the GUI incorporating a plurality of configurable views related to the control system representation;
• receiving an input through the GUI to modify a parameter of a first SISO compensator of the plurality of distributed SISO compensators;
• modifying a parameter of the first SISO compensator with a first modification in accordance with the received input, the parameter having a value representative of a substantially constant characteristic of the dynamic system representation;
• operating the first SISO compensator to generate a resulting output;
• automatically updating one or more parameters of a remainder of the plurality of SISO compensators with a second modification based on the first modification and the resulting output of the first SISO compensator, the updating occurring contemporaneous with and resulting from modifying the parameter and operating the first SISO compensator;
• operating the remainder of the plurality of SISO compensators to generate one or more outputs, the remainder of the plurality of the SISO compensators including a second SISO compensator and a third SISO compensator;
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• simultaneously displaying the plurality of configurable views related to the control system representation with one or more updated parameters of the remainder of the plurality of SISO compensators, the plurality of configurable views related to the control system representation including a first plot of one or more outputs of the second SISO compensator and a second plot of one or more outputs of the third SISO compensator, the displaying occurring simultaneously with the modifying the parameter of the first SISO compensator.