Designing Compensators (Getting Started)

Getting Started

Exporting the Compensator and Models

Now that you have successfully designed your compensator, you may want to save your design parameters for future implementation. You can do this by selecting Export from the File menu on the SISO Design Tool. The window shown below opens.

Figure 4-40: SISO Tool Export Window

The variables listed in the Export As column are either previously named by you (in the Import System Data window) or have default names. To export your compensator to the workspace,

Select Compensator C in the Component column. If you want to change the export name, double-click in the cell for Compensator C.
Click on the Export to Workspace button.

If you go to the MATLAB prompt and type

```
who
```

the compensator is now in the workspace, in the variable named C.

Type

```
C
```

to see that this variable is stored in zpk format.

To select multiple components, use the Shift key if they are all adjacent and the Ctrl key if they are not.

Selecting Export to Disk opens the window shown below.

You can save your models as MAT-files in any directory you want. The default name for the MAT-file is the name of your original model; you can change the name to anything you want. If you save multiple components, they are stored in a single MAT-file.

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