A New Advanced Fully-Features Control System Platform for General Public

A new advanced universal control system platform available to general public is presented. General motivation for development of a new control system platform arose from a frustrating experience of coming from control system research into a standard industrial and building management control environment. Advanced control design techniques and algorithms are not commonly applied in practice, nor control research and development tools such as Matlab or Scilab. Smaller implementation companies and independent professionals carrying a few projects a year, not mentioning students or hobbyists, have an additional permanent issue - cost of corporate-built control platform software and hardware. All that reasons led to decision to develop a new advanced fully-featured but low-cost and open-source based control system platform. A platform that blends necessary industrial requirements, advanced control tools, modern open-source and free IT platforms, low-cost hardware. A platform available at low cost to any individual or institution developing simple embedded control or highly complex large process control solution. Note, that by control system platform is meant a complete hardware/software setup for building control systems. A setup that includes real-time controllers, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system, and tools for real-time control design, validation, optimization, and programming. Considered to-be-controlled technology ranges from a small stand-alone mobile device, through a compact technology such as chiller or molding machine up to a large process.