A knowledge environment for an interactive control system design package

This paper describes a generic expert system development environment in a computer-aided control system package called SFPACK. The basic command language of the package follows the well-known MATLAB syntax. However, SFPACK has evolved from the MATLAB-derived control environment to a new generation of control system design environment because of the novel knowledge environment developed within the package. SFPACK now supports a richer set of data structures for representing design objects and knowledge in the control environment. In this paper, the features of the knowledge environment is presented. The issue on coupling of symbolic and numeric processing is also discussed. An expert system for control system design is developed in this integrated environment.link_to_subscribed_fulltex