Improving the efficiency and accuracy of the MATLAB control toolbox using SLICOT-based gateways
Vasile Sima, Peter Benner, Sabine Van Huffel and Andras Varga
Presented at MTNS98 Padova, Italy, July 6-10, 1998, (to appear in Proceedings of MTNS98).
The paper presents performance results for some components of the new, public-domain version of the SLICOT library in comparison with equivalent computations by some MATLAB functions included in the Control Toolbox. SLICOT incorporates the new algorothmic developments in numerical linear algebra, implemented in the state-of-the-art software packages LAPACK and BLAS. The results show that at comparable or better accuracy, SLICOT routines are several times faster than MATLAB computations.
The numerics in control network NICONET
Ad van den Boom and Sabine Van Huffel
Proc. 17-th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Mierlo, the Netherlands, March 4-6, p. 186, 1998
NICONET is a European thematic network project with the aim of formalising and extending current collaboration with respect to robust numerical software for control systems analysis and synthesis.
The freeware numerical subroutine library SLICOT for systems and control theory
Ad van den Boom, Vasile Sima, Peter Benner and Sabine Van Huffel
Proc. 17-th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Mierlo, the Netherlands, March 4-6, p. 185, 1998
The subroutine library SLICOT provides Fortran 77 implementations of numerical algorithms for computations in systems and control theory.
The freeware numerical subroutine library SLICOT for systems and control theory
V. Sima and S. Van Huffel
Abstracts ICCoS study day on Identification, February 4, 1998, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
NICONET: a Network for Numerically reliable Software in CACSD
Ad van den Boom, Sabine Van Huffel and Peter Benner
Journal A, vol.38, no. 3, pp. 20-21, 1997
NICONET is a European thematic network project with the aim of formalising and extending current collaboration with respect to robust numerical software for control systems analysis and design. Such software is an essential ingredient in modern computer aided control systems design (CACSD). NICONET is set up as a network for development and evaluation of numerically reliable software in control engineering and its implementation in production technologies. The objectives of NICONET are threefold: to intensify the research in and collaboration on Numerics in Control; to integrate the existing libraries SLICOT and RASP into a joint library, to extend, improve, and benchmark it and to adapt it for easy implementation in general purpose CACSD packages; to ensure the transfer of information technology related to control of industrial processes to industry
