PARSIM: a parallel optimization tool

Author

Chipperfield, A.J. ; Fleming, P.J. ; Crummey, T.P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Autom. Control & Syst. Eng., Sheffield Univ., UK

fYear

1994

fDate

7-9 Mar 1994

Firstpage

579

Lastpage

584

Abstract

Current computer aided control system design environments seldom support optimization methods for controller design in a truly interactive manner. A prototype tool, called PARSIM, supporting parallel processing, optimization and a graphical user interface is presented addressing many of the problems inherent in current approaches to multiobjective optimization based design methods. An XWindows interface is used to simplify problem formulation and control the optimization processes. Using a previously developed interface, the computational burden may be alleviated by parallel processing

Keywords

control engineering; control system CAD; graphical user interfaces; optimisation; parallel processing; PARSIM; XWindows interface; computer aided control system design environments; control system CAD; graphical user interface; multiobjective optimization based design methods; optimization; parallel optimization tool; parallel processing; Computer interfaces; Concurrent computing; Control systems; Design methodology; Design optimization; Graphical user interfaces; Optimization methods; Parallel processing; Process control; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Aided Control System Design, 1994. Proceedings., IEEE/IFAC Joint Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tucson, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1800-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CACSD.1994.288875

Filename

288875