Software Tools for Real-Time Simulation and Control

The objective of the work described in this book is
to design and simulate a multi-agent based energy
management system for a
shipboard power system in hard real-time
environment. Multi-agent technology is used in
designing the reconfigurable
energy management system using a self-stabilizing
maximum flow algorithm. The agent based
energy management system is designed in a
Matlab/Simulink environment. The number of steps
taken to reach the global solution and the time
taken are very
promising. With the growing importance of timing
accuracy in simulating control systems during design
and development, there is an increased need for
these simulations to run in a real-time environment.
This research further focuses on software tools that
support hard real-time environment to run real-time
simulations. A detailed survey has been conducted on
freely available real-time operating systems and
other software tools to setup a desktop PC
supporting real-time environment.
Matlab/Simulink/RTW-RTAI was
selected as real-time computer aided control design
software for demonstrating real-time simulation of
agent based energy management system.

Autorentext
Raghu Chandra Sankarayogi received his MS degree in Electrical
Engineering from West Virginia University in December 2005. He
nvestigated real-time operating systems and control design tools
for real-time control agents and networked controls to improve
reliablility of integrated shipboard power systems.

Klappentext
The objective of the work described in this book is to design and simulate a multi-agent based energy management system for a shipboard power system in hard real-time environment. Multi-agent technology is used in designing the reconfigurable energy management system using a self-stabilizing maximum flow algorithm. The agent based energy management system is designed in a Matlab/Simulink environment. The number of steps taken to reach the global solution and the time taken are very promising. With the growing importance of timing accuracy in simulating control systems during design and development, there is an increased need for these simulations to run in a real-time environment. This research further focuses on software tools that support hard real-time environment to run real-time simulations. A detailed survey has been conducted on freely available real-time operating systems and other software tools to setup a desktop PC supporting real-time environment. Matlab/Simulink/RTW-RTAI was selected as real-time computer aided control design software for demonstrating real-time simulation of agent based energy management system.