Perspectives of CACSD: embedding the control system design process into a virtual engineering environment

The high computation and visualization power now available at the control engineer's desk opens the perspective of embedding CACSD Technology into a virtual engineering environment. This enables concurrent interaction of control engineering with multidisciplinary high-fidelity system dynamics modeling, and supports a fundamental change of the conventional control design tuning process in a computation framework of fast nonlinear simulation, automatic search for feasible solutions, and interactive multiobjective optimization to trade-off conflicting design requirements. Such an environment promotes active decision support to foster the control engineer's role as the prime decision maker in system dynamics design.