Wolfram Research Releases Control System Professional Suite
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- Subject: [mg40141] Wolfram Research Releases Control System Professional Suite
- From: newsdesk at wolfram.com (Wolfram Research)
- Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 05:08:45 -0500 (EST)
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The new Control System Professional Suite from Wolfram Research, makers of the Mathematica technical computing system, is an extensible framework of tightly integrated Mathematica application packages that offers an object-oriented environment for solving the common control problems that arise in engineering, science, economics, and finance. The suite provides a mechanism for getting the latest advances in control theory to the people who can put them to work. The core of the suite is Control System Professional 2, whose more than 150 functions allow users to link built-in control objects together to model their own problems. The package is designed to seamlessly handle both transfer-function and state-space objects in the discrete time and continuous time domains. It allows users to work with the familiar textbook form of control objects or easily toggle their view to see the underlying Mathematica structures. Mathematica technology provides users with symbolic simplification of control objects, systems and equations, and a choice of programming paradigms. A more detailed overview of Control System Professional 2 can be found at: http://www.wolfram.com/news/csp2.html The second component of the suite is Advanced Numerical Methods, which was developed by Wolfram Research in collaboration with Biswa Nath Datta, IEEE Fellow and Presidential Research Professor at Northern Illinois University, and Dr. Daniil Sarkissian of Mississippi State University. Advanced Numerical Methods offers a variety of algorithms for each problem, enabling expert users to choose the most appropriate tool for a given task. Given the system data and the user's requirements for accuracy, the package can often select a suitable method automatically. A more detailed overview of the new features in Advanced Numerical Methods can be found at: http://www.wolfram.com/news/anm.html Wolfram Research continues to work closely with control researchers to develop components, such as Advanced Numerical Methods, that combine expert control methods with Mathematica technology. Control System Professional Suite is designed for use with Mathematica 4 or later and is available for Windows, Mac, Mac OS X, and most Unix systems. Both System Professional 2 and Advanced Numerical Methods can be purchased from Wolfram Research either as individual application packages or as part of Control System Professional Suite; however, Advanced Numerical Methods requires Control System Professional 2. For more information about Control System Professional Suite and its component packages, call 1-217-398-5151, send email to info at wolfram.com, or visit: http://www.wolfram.com/csps Callers inside the United States may also dial toll-free: 1-800-WOLFRAM (965-3726) United States release date: March 17, 2003 Release date outside of the United States: March 31, 2003