A novel controller design approach based on object-oriented virtual prototyping

Nowadays, with the ever increasing complexity of multi-domain mechatronics products and the demand of reducing time-to-market, the system design approach which meets the requirements of virtualized, concurrent, and systemized is needed. Based on the practical problems arise in the controller design for mechatronics system, this paper proposes a novel controller design approach based on functional digital prototyping (FDP) and object oriented (OO) method. This approach enables to design and tune the controller on virtual platform in the early stage of system level design. The feasibility of our approach is proved by a case study in the design process of a three-loop control system for X-Y table.