Use of Cosimulation on Control of Casting Mold Preheating Process as Distributed Parameters System

Abstract

The paper deals with problematics of the control of the casting mold preheating process as a distributed parameters system. At the beginning the casting mold and the concept of the distributed parameters systems are introduced. Then there are descriptions of a model designed in COMSOL Multiphysics, system identification and a prepared scheme model for controllers parameters settings in the MATLAB & Simulink environment with advanced product DPS Blockset for MATLAB & Simulink. In the end cosimulation of the software tools COMSOL Multiphysics and MATLAB & Simulink is described and achieved results are analyzed.

Keywords

• preheating foundry molds
• system with distributed parameters
• simulation
• cosimulation
• identification
• control synthesis
• DPS Blockset.