Specifications

3 Designing Controllers Using the Design Tool GUI
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• Plant model specifies the LTI model to be used for controller predictions.
• Control interval sets the elapsed time between successive adjustments of the
controller's manipulated variables.
• Prediction horizon is the number of control intervals over which the outputs are to
be optimized.
• Control horizon sets the number of control intervals over which the manipulated
variables are to be optimized.
• Selecting the Blocking option gives you more control over the way in which the
controller's moves are allocated.
Leave all of the Model and Horizons tab settings at their default values for now.
Controller Options — Model and Horizons Tab
Weight Tuning
Click the Weight Tuning tab. The view shown in Controller Options — Weight Tuning
Tab appears.
Make the following changes:
• In the Input weights section, change the coolant temperature's Rate Weight from
the default 0.1 to 0.3.