RTC-simulator

RTC (Real Time Control) is a program of M. Mulholland (2015). This is a simple interactive simulator including 20 different applications for such aspects as PID and DMC controller tuning, advanced level control, Smith prediction, Kalman filtering, and control strategies for a furnace, a boiler, and a hybrid system.
A tutorial gives brief background to the theory and programming of each application, plus a stepwise set of objectives to illustrate the main features. The simulations include a number of the techniques described in Applied Process Control – Essential Methods, and that book’s accompanying volume, Applied Process Control – Efficient Problem Solving. Actually, RTC is not merely a suite of simulations: Each application can be switched from “MODEL” to “PLANT” mode for real-time control of equipment through a somewhat basic interfacing arrangement. In “MODEL” mode, time can be accelerated or frozen.