PARSIM: a parallel optimization tool

Author

Chipperfield, Andrew J. ; Fleming, Peter J.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

15

Issue

2

fYear

1995

fDate

4/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

48

Lastpage

53

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, it is shown how the computational burden may be alleviated by parallel processing

Keywords

control system CAD; control systems; graphical user interfaces; optimisation; parallel processing; PARSIM; XWindows interface; computational burden; computer-aided control system design environments; graphical user interface; multiobjective optimization-based design methods; 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

Journal_Title

Control Systems, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1066-033X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/37.375283

Filename

375283