Unleash the Power of Model-Based Design for Engineering and Innovation In the realm of engineering and system design, Simulink stands as a transformative tool that empowers professionals to visualize and simulate complex systems. "Mastering Simulink" is your comprehensive guide to understanding and harnessing the potential of this powerful platform, enabling you to create and simulate dynamic models that drive innovation and accelerate development. About the Book: As technology advances, the ability to model and simulate complex systems becomes increasingly important. "Mastering Simulink" offers an in-depth exploration of this cutting-edge tool—an essential toolkit for engineers, researchers, and enthusiasts. This book caters to both newcomers and experienced learners aiming to excel in modeling, simulation, and design using Simulink. Key Features: Simulink Essentials: Begin by understanding the core principles of Simulink. Learn about the user interface, building blocks, and how to create models using graphical representations. Modeling Techniques: Dive into modeling techniques. Explore methods for representing and simulating various types of systems, from control systems to physical processes. Simulating Dynamic Systems: Grasp the art of simulating dynamic systems. Understand how to define initial conditions, run simulations, and analyze results for system behavior. Model Verification and Validation: Explore techniques for verifying and validating models. Learn how to ensure that your simulated models accurately represent real-world systems. Model-Based Design: Understand the significance of model-based design. Learn how Simulink enables you to design, simulate, and iterate on systems before implementation. Control System Design: Delve into control system design using Simulink. Explore techniques for designing controllers, analyzing closed-loop systems, and tuning parameters. Physical System Modeling: Grasp physical system modeling techniques. Learn how to simulate mechanical, electrical, and multidomain systems using Simulink. Real-World Applications: Gain insights into how Simulink is applied across industries. From aerospace to automotive, discover the diverse applications of this tool. Why This Book Matters: In a world driven by complex engineering challenges, mastering Simulink offers a competitive advantage. "Mastering Simulink" empowers engineers, researchers, and technology enthusiasts to leverage this dynamic platform, enabling them to create and simulate models that enhance system design, analysis, and innovation. Accelerate Innovation with Model-Based Design: In the landscape of engineering and innovation, Simulink is a transformative tool that drives efficiency and accuracy. "Mastering Simulink" equips you with the knowledge needed to leverage this powerful platform, enabling you to create and simulate dynamic models that push the boundaries of innovation and redefine what's possible. Whether you're a seasoned practitioner or new to the world of Simulink, this book will guide you in building a solid foundation for effective model-based design and simulation. Your journey to mastering Simulink starts here. © 2023 Cybellium Ltd. All rights reserved. www.cybellium.com

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems, FTRTFT 2000, held in Pune, India in September 2000. The 21 revised full papers presented together with three invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on model checking, fault tolerance, scheduling, validation, verification, logic and automata.

Real-time systems are defined as those for which correctness depends not only on the logical properties of the produced results, but also on the temporal properties of these results. In a database, real-time means that in addition to typical logical consistency constraints, such as a constraint on a data item's value, there are constraints on when transactions execute and on the `freshness' of the data transactions access. The challenges and tradeoffs faced by the designers of real-time database systems are quite different from those faced by the designers of general-purpose database systems. To achieve the fundamental requirements of timeliness and predictability, not only do conventional methods for scheduling and transaction management have to be redesigned, but also new concepts that have not been considered in conventional database systems or in real-time systems need to be added. Real-Time Database and Information Systems: Research Advances is devoted to new techniques for scheduling of transactions, concurrency management, transaction logging, database languages, and new distributed database architectures. Real-Time Database and Information Systems: Research Advances is primarily intended for practicing engineers and researchers working in the growing area of real-time database and information retrieval systems. For practitioners, the book will provide a much needed bridge for technology transfer and continued education. For researchers, the book will provide a comprehensive reference for well-established results. The book can also be used in a senior or graduate level course on real-time systems, real-time database systems, and database systems, or closely related courses.

" a seminal text covering the simulation design and analysis of a broad variety of systems using two of the most modern software packages available today. particularly adept [at] enabling students new to the field to gain a thorough understanding of the basics of continuous simulation in a single semester, and [also provides] a more advanced tre

The vast majority of control systems built today are embedded; that is, they rely on built-in, special-purpose digital computers to close their feedback loops. Embedded systems are common in aircraft, factories, chemical processing plants, and even in cars–a single high-end automobile may contain over eighty different computers. The design of embedded controllers and of the intricate, automated communication networks that support them raises many new questions—practical, as well as theoretical—about network protocols, compatibility of operating systems, and ways to maximize the effectiveness of the embedded hardware. This handbook, the first of its kind, provides engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians, and students a broad, comprehensive source of information and technology to address many questions and aspects of embedded and networked control. Separated into six main sections—Fundamentals, Hardware, Software, Theory, Networking, and Applications—this work unifies into a single reference many scattered articles, websites, and specification sheets. Also included are case studies, experiments, and examples that give a multifaceted view of the subject, encompassing computation and communication considerations.

Event-based control is a means to restrict the feedback in control loops to event time instants that are determined by a well-defined triggering mechanism. The aim of this control strategy is to adapt the communication over the feedback link to the system behavior. In this thesis, a state-feedback approach to event-based control is extended to systems that are composed of physically interconnected subsystems. The main concern of this thesis is disturbance rejection in interconnected systems, which is supposed to be best accomplished by a continuous state feedback. This consideration leads to the idea that the event-based state-feedback system should approximate the disturbance rejection behavior of a continuous state-feedback system with adjustable precision. Various methods for the event-based control of physically interconnected systems are investigated. In particular, decentralized, distributed and centralized state feedback is studied, which differ with respect to the effort for the communication between the components of the event-based controller over the communication network. The main results concern the design and analysis of event-based state-feedback control methods for physically interconnected systems. For all approaches the disturbance behavior of a continuous state-feedback system is shown to be approximated with adjustable accuracy by the event-based state-feedback system. The novel event-based control methods are tested and evaluated in experiments on a continuous flow process implemented on a large-scale pilot plant.

Modeling and Control of Precision Actuators explores new technologies that can ultimately be applied in a myriad of industries. It covers dynamical analysis of precise actuators and strategies of design for various control applications. The book addresses four main schemes: modeling and control of precise actuators; nonlinear control of precise actuators, including sliding mode control and neural network feedback control; fault detection and fault-tolerant control; and advanced air bearing control. It covers application issues in the modeling and control of precise actuators, providing several interesting case studies for more application-oriented readers. Introduces the driving forces behind precise actuators Describes nonlinear dynamics of precise actuators and their mathematical forms, including hysteresis, creep, friction, and force ripples Presents the control strategies for precise actuators based on Preisach model as well as creep dynamics Develops relay feedback techniques for identifying nonlinearities such as friction and force ripples Discusses a MPC approach based on piecewise affine models which emulate the frictional effects in the precise actuator Covers the concepts of air bearing stages with the corresponding control method Provides a set of schemes suitable for fault detection and accommodation control of mechanical systems Emphasizing design theory and control strategies, the book includes simulation and practical examples for each chapter; covers precise actuators such as piezo motors, coil motors, air bearing motors, and linear motors; discusses integration among different technologies; and includes three case studies in real projects. The book concludes by linking design methods and their applications, emphasizing the key issues involved and how to implement the precision motion control tasks in a practical system. It provides a concise and comprehensive source of the state-of-the-art developments and results for modeling and control of precise actuators.

Modern computing systems work when all components are correct by design and can be combined to achieve scalability. This publication offers refereed papers covering various aspects such as: system design and implementation; tools (concurrent programming languages, libraries, and run-time kernels); and, formal methods and applications.