Abstract
Abstract We report on recent progress in the development of a computer-aided engineering (CAE) environment for nonlinear control system analysis and design based on sinusoidal-input describing function (SIDF) methods. Several major additions have been made to our nonlinear controls CAE software: ACSL macros were developed to allow the generation of SIDF models of nonlinear plants in a manner analogous to that of the SIMNON-based software developed earlier, and MATLAB routines were developed for the analysis of these models and for the design of general nonlinear controllers based on them. This software provides an integrated tool set for treating very general nonlinear systems with no restrictions on system order, number of nonlinearities, configuration, or nonlinearity type. Based on the new software presented here, the use of SIDF-based nonlinear control system analysis and design methods is substantially easier to carry out and more powerful than before
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