Benefits of Adams Controls
By combining mechanical system simulation tools and controls design tools, you can:
■Add sophisticated controls to an Adams model and simulate the combined system.
■Generate mechanical system simulation models directly from your Adams data without having to write equations.
■Analyze the results of your simulation in the Adams environment or the controls application environment.
How to Improve the Design Process with Adams Controls
In the typical design process of a mechanical system with controls, the mechanical designer and the controls designer work from the same concept, but use different sets of software tools. The result is that each designer produces a model for the same problem.
Each design is then subject to verification and testing, and the first time the two designs are brought together is during physical prototype testing. If a problem occurs during the interaction between the controls design and the mechanical design, the engineers must refine the control design, the mechanical design, or both, and then go through the entire verification process again as shown in the figure below.
With Adams Controls, the two designers can share the same mechanical model. They can also verify from one database the combined effects of a control system on a nonlinear, non-rigid model. The physical testing process is greatly simplified, and the risk of the control law being poorly matched to the real system is eliminated as you can see in the figure below.
