Robust Control Design and Analysis Using SCILAB for a Mass-Spring-Damper System

This paper introduces an open-source software package SCILAB [1], an alternative of MATLAB [2], which can be used for robust control design and analysis of a typical mass-spring-damper (MSD) system. Using the previously published ideas in [3,4], this popular mechanical system is considered to provide another example of usefulness of SCILAB for advanced control design.

• Yoonsoo Kim

• Robust Control
• SCILAB
• Mass-Spring-Damper(MSD).

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