Mathcad in Controls Education

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Mathcad in ControlsEducation

• Colin Campbell, IST
• University of Waterloo
• ist.uwaterloo.ca/ic/mathcad/controls

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Outline

• Linear Algebra Calculus
• Mathcad vs. Maple
• Controls
• Mathcad complements MATLAB/SIMULINK

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Linear Algebra Calculus

• Maple
• awkward syntax
• A array( 1,0, 0,1)C evalm(A
  B)
• df diff(f(x), x)f unapply(df, x)

• Mathcad
• math is the syntax 1 0
• A 0 1
• f(x) d f(x) dx

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Controls Education

• Mathcad
• mathematicalexperiments

• MATLAB/Simulink
• high-level designenvironments

• System Dynamics and Control (1999)
• Eronini. I. Umez-Eronini
• http//www.brookscole.com/engineering
• Search for 0-53-494451-5
• ftp//ftp.pws.com/pws/engr/dyncontrols.zip
• MATLAB and Mathcad files from book