Simulink Control Design™ - MathWorks

• “Bode Diagram Design” (Control System Toolbox)


• “Root Locus Design” (Control System Toolbox)


• “Nichols Plot Design” (Control System Toolbox)

Automated Tuning Methods

Use automated tuning methods to automatically tune compensators based on your design
specifications.

Tuning Method Description Requirements and Limitations

PID Tuning Automatically tune PID gains to

balance performance and

robustness or tune controllers

using classical PID tuning

formulas.

Classical PID tuning formulas

require a stable or integrating

effective plant.

Optimization

Based Tuning

Optimize compensator parameters

using design requirements

specified in graphical tuning and

analysis plots.

Requires Simulink Design

Optimization software.

Tunes the parameters of a

previously defined controller

structure.

LQG Synthesis Design a full-order stabilizing

feedback controller as a linear-

quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) tracker.

Maximum controller order

depends on the effective plant

dynamics.

Loop Shaping Find a full-order stabilizing

feedback controller with a

specified open-loop bandwidth or

shape.

Requires Robust Control Toolbox

software.

Maximum controller order

depends on the effective plant

dynamics.

Control System Designer Tuning Methods