Application Toolboxes

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The LMI Control Toolbox. The LMI Control Toolbox, authored by leading
researchers: Pascal Gahinet, Arkadi Nemirovski, and Alan Laub, allows one to
efficiently solve Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs). LMIs are special convex
optimization problems that arise in many disciplines, including control,
identification, filtering, structural design, graph theory, and linear algebra.
The LMI Control Toolbox also features a variety of LMI-based tools for control
systems design and covers applications such as robust stability and
performance analysis, robust gain scheduling, and multi-objective controller
synthesis with a mix of H-infinity, LQG, and pole placement objectives.

The Model Predictive Control Toolbox. The Model Predictive Control Toolbox was
written by Manfred Morari and N. Lawrence Ricker. Model predictive control
is especially useful for control applications with many input and output
variables, many of which have constraints. As a result, it has become
particularly popular in chemical engineering and other process control
applications.

The Mu-Analysis and Synthesis Toolbox. The Mu-Analysis and Synthesis Toolbox, by
Gary Balas, Andy Packard, John Doyle, Keith Glover, and Roy Smith, contains
specialized tools for H∞ optimal control, and µ-analysis and synthesis, an
approach to advanced robust control design of multivariable linear systems.

The NAG Foundation Toolbox. The NAG Foundation Toolbox includes more than
200 numeric computation functions from the well-regarded NAG Fortran
subroutine libraries. It provides specialized tools for boundary-value problems,
optimization, adaptive quadrature, surface and curve-fitting, and other
applications.

The Neural Network Toolbox. The Neural Network Toolbox by Howard Demuth
and Mark Beale is a collection of MATLAB functions for designing and
simulating neural networks. Neural networks are computing architectures,
inspired by biological nervous systems, that are useful in applications where
formal analysis is extremely difficult or impossible, such as pattern recognition
and nonlinear system identification and control.

The Optimization Toolbox. The Optimization Toolbox contains commands for the
optimization of general linear and nonlinear functions, including those with

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