A New Toolbox for Computer-Aided Analysis and Design of Multivariable Control Systems in Robotics and Mechatronics

Oleg Gasparyan

doi:https://doi.org/10.14445/23488379/IJEEE-V13I3P113

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Volume 13 | Issue 3 | Year 2026 | Article Id. IJEEE-V13I3P113 | DOI : https://doi.org/10.14445/23488379/IJEEE-V13I3P113

A New Toolbox for Computer-Aided Analysis and Design of Multivariable Control Systems in Robotics and Mechatronics

Oleg Gasparyan, Tariel Simonyan, Liana Buniatyan, Armand Karapetyan

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10 Dec 2025	12 Jan 2026	18 Feb 2026	31 Mar 2026

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Oleg Gasparyan, Tariel Simonyan, Liana Buniatyan, Armand Karapetyan, "A New Toolbox for Computer-Aided Analysis and Design of Multivariable Control Systems in Robotics and Mechatronics," International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 169-177, 2026. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23488379/IJEEE-V13I3P113

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the first presentation of a new software package ‘MIMO Control Toolbox’, which is being developed at the ‘Aerial Robotics Center’ of the National Polytechnic University of Armenia. The toolbox works in the MATLAB environment and is designed for computer-aided analysis and design of Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) feedback control systems in robotics, mechatronics, and many other fields of automation and control. The key distinctive feature of the ‘MIMO Control Toolbox’ is that the design of any N-dimensional MIMO control system is reduced to the design, with the help of conventional frequency-domain and root-domain methods of classical feedback control, of a certain control system with one input and one output. The toolbox contains a Graphical User Interface (GUI) ‘MIMOSysCAD’, which can be regarded as an extension to the multivariable case of the well-known GUI ‘Control Systems Designer’ in MATLAB.

Keywords

Computer-Aided Design, Mechatronics, Multivariable Control System, Robotics, MATLAB.

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