OptControlCentre Features


	[Offline Menu] [Edit Menu] [Online Menu] [Sim. Annealing] [System Requirements]

It is the aim of the developers to give the engineer a set of tools at hand to accomplish fast dynamic optimization solutions. The OptControlCentre has various features to do this all with a powerful graphical user interface (GUI).

In the offline menu, the user has a convenient interface to OCOMA to generate the FORTRAN code of the model, link it against the available solvers and execute the optimization problem. The user has also access to a couple of very useful features such as integration error calculation, auto increase time steps, make starting values (from previous solution or from dynamic simulation).

The edit menu is an interface to generate the model code in Maple format itself. The edit menu also gives a good overview of the OCOMA parameters.

The online menu drives the whole process of online optimization. The user sees at runtime the optimization results. The results are saved and can be viewed in the playback mode.

The OptControlCentre features also an stochastic optimization tool: Simulated Annealing. This method can be used for the dynamic optimization of existing dynamic (Simulink) models. A couple of unique features have been developed for this method which ensures relative fast optimization of the model. No FORTRAN code has to be produced, Simulated Annealing just uses MATLAB / Simulink.

[Offline Menu]
[Edit Menu]
[Online Menu]
[Sim. Annealing]
[System Requirements]

After the installation of OCC, start MATLAB and change to the OCC directory. At the MATLAB command prompt, type

> occ;

and the following window will appear:

After accepting the license, OCC will start with the offline menu.