A SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT FOR GAIN SCHEDULED CONTROLLER-DESIGN

Recent theoretical developments have improved the understanding of gai n scheduled control and suggested new methods for design, analysis, an d implementation of such nonlinear control systems, An integrated soft ware environment fur gain scheduled local controller network design an d :analysis, including computer-aided modeling and system identificati on, is described. Some background theory is included, and a speed cont rol design problem for an experimental vehicle illustrates the applica tion of the approach.