A project based environment for computer-aided control engineering

Probably the largest single factor inhibiting the development of an environment supporting the full control engineering design cycle has been the lack of widely recognised standards in this field. The issue of standardisation can be viewed on two levels, the representation of the dynamic system model itself and the provision of database facilities, including those high-level facilities required for model management. This paper concentrates on the latter, examines the requirements of the user in this respect and describes a user interface to meet these requirements. The impact of current initiatives in open architecture development on future computer-aided control engineering software development is examined.<>