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Speed Up Tuning with Parallel Computing Toolbox

Software

If you have the Parallel Computing Toolbox software installed, you can speed up the

tuning of fixed-structure control systems. When you run multiple randomized optimization

starts with systune, looptune, or hinfstruct, parallel computing speeds up tuning by

distributing the optimization runs among workers.

To distribute randomized optimization runs among workers:

If Automatically create a parallel pool is not selected in your Parallel Computing

Toolbox preferences (Parallel Computing Toolbox), manually start a parallel pool using

parpool. For example:

parpool;

If Automatically create a parallel pool is selected in your preferences, you do not need

to manually start a pool.

Create a systuneOptions, looptuneOptions, or hinfstructOptions set that

specifies multiple random starts. For example, the following options set specifies 20

random restarts to run in parallel for tuning with looptune:

options = systuneOptions('RandomStart',20,'UseParallel',true);

Setting UseParallel to true enables parallel processing by distributing the randomized

starts among available workers in the parallel pool.

Use the options set when you call the tuning command. For example, if you have already

created a tunable control system model, CL0, and tunable controller, and tuning

requirement vectors SoftReqs and HardReqs, the following command uses parallel

computing to tune the control system of CL0 with systune.

[CL,fSoft,gHard,info] = systune(CL0,SoftReq,Hardreq,options);

To learn more about configuring a parallel pool, see the Parallel Computing Toolbox

documentation.

See Also

parpool

Speed Up Tuning with Parallel Computing Toolbox Software