Simulation Time Analysis of MATLAB/Simulink and LabVIEW for Control Applications

Abstract

Nowadays advanced software programs are actively used in the field for simulation and modeling. LabVIEW and MATLAB/Simulink are both graphical programming languages, allowing a more efficient method to perform and analyze control systems. Therefore, they are the most commonly used software programs for these purposes. Moreover; in some applications - like hardware in the loop systems, flight simulations etc. - simulation time can be vital to achieve more realistic simulation. Therefore, in addition to programming style, simulation performance can be affected by used platform's abilities. In this paper both tools' abilities on some of control applications will be presented with benchmark problems and their performances on simulation of control systems will be analyzed and compared.