Rapid Control Prototyping (RCP) is a process which lets the engineer quickly test and iterate their control strategies on a real-time computer with real input/output devices.  Rapid Control Prototyping is a variant of Hardware-In-Loop (HIL). Rapid control prototyping is now the typical method used by engineers to:

• Develop and test their control strategies.
• Determine their IO counts -Inputs and Outputs- which would be needed to drive different loads for the system.
• Demonstrate prototype setup to the prospective customer without getting into expensive hardware and PCB designing.
• Ability to re-use the RCP hardware for multiple projects by simply building a new model.
• Perform dynamic mechanical analysis on the system.

Methodica Technologies can:

• Define a RCP system which would meet your project needs.
• Develop custom models in Matlab, Simulink and Stateflow to prototype and simulate the controller, thereby giving you the capability to do a proof of concept for your mechanical system driven by the simulated RCP controller.
• Integrate and automate your present and future HIL test bench test tools.