Events - Seminars

We will use a ‘live’ motion control setup exhibiting behavior that is typically found in high precision electromechanical motion systems for industrial automation as a case study on how to model and simulate a physical system, to design a high performance controller for it, and to show correctness of its real-time behavior using state-of-the-art hardware.

Simulink® and The MathWorks suite of physical modeling products provide an environment for modeling and simulation that enables a Model-Based Design approach for the development of multi-domain systems.

Especially if the system design involves the development of embedded software, like for instance control algorithms, this is a well-established approach to deal with ever-increasing complexity and more stringent requirements.

To prevent costly errors and decrease time-to-market, it is important to be able to prove the functional correctness of the developed algorithms in an early-as-possible stage, not only in simulation, but also in real-time using actual (prototype) hardware.

Through the MathWorks’ System Integrator Program we establish partnerships with organizations that develop and deliver customer-specific, integrated systems for this purpose. For this seminar we invited the Swiss based company Speedgoat as an excellent example of this approach.

Speedgoat’s turn-key real-time systems, together with Simulink and xPC Target™, create a complete real-time software and hardware environment for rapid prototyping and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation. By going through real-world examples, Speedgoat will present how you can start testing your design in real-time within hours instead of weeks and to rapidly verify and optimize your design.