Dynamic Virtual Prototyping for Control Engineering: Concepts, Methods, Applications

Virtual prototypes, or digital mockups, are the
foundation of digital engineering and product
lifecycle management. While virtual prototyping has
been a valuable tool for control system analysis for
years, there is a growing interest for designing
control systems directly on the basis of virtual
prototypes. Closing the gap between control design
and virtual prototyping would help to avoid
duplication of models, minimize design errors,
facilitate adaptation to product changes, improve
collaboration between product lifecycle processes,
and shorten time to market. But this is hindered by
the heterogeneity, complexity, incompatibility and
incompleteness of models comprising virtual
prototypes and the models required for the control
system development. This book lays out concepts,
identifies methods and tools, and provides
application examples for integrating control system
development and dynamic virtual prototyping a
subclass of virtual prototyping. The intended readers
include system designers and integrators, control
engineers, computer-aided engineering experts,
virtual prototyping systems users and producers.