Parallel computing in CACSD

Abstract

Computer-aided design of control systems via multiobjective optimisation is a computationally demanding task that may benefit from parallel processing techniques. In this paper, we report on a new parallel processing gateway that supports the use of parallel processing within the framework of an existing computer-aided control system design software package. In many control system design exercises which employ optimisation, the bulk of the computational effort is devoted to the evaluation of the objectives of the optimisation at each iteration. This paper demonstrates, with an example, how, using the gateway, parallel processing can be used within the framework of existing computer-aided control system design tools to compute these objective values.

Keywords

Computer aided design control systems optimisation parallel processing.

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