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COSY_PAK
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This is an unsupported release of COSY_PAK - a COntrol SYstems
analysis PAcKage for symbolic control systems analysis using
Mathematica 2.0 and higher. Classical control systems analysis
and design methods and some modern control systems methods
have been implemented in this package.
This package and the attendant notebooks were developed on a
NeXT (TM) computer (an UNIX based workstation). They have been
used as a supplementary teaching aid along with a standard control
engineering text (Ogata [1991]) for an undergraduate course in
`Control Engineering I' taught at the Systems Engineering Department
of CWRU. In addition to the NeXT, they have also been tested
successfully on Apple Macintosh computers (TM), and, IBM PC's
(TM) running MS Windows(TM). We would be very much interested
to hear from you if you or anybody you know use this software on
platforms not mentioned above. IBM users however will have to
evaluate the notebooks first to visualize the graphics.
Once installed (see below for instructions), this collection of
Mathematica packages can be loaded by any user. Bundled with the
packages are many notebooks ("COSY_Notes") which demonstrate
the functionality of these packages. The notebooks follow a plan of
many fine, standard, undergraduate Control Engineering text books
listed in the references. Examples used in these notebooks have
been collected from the various references given at the end of this
file.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.