Model Predictive Control Toolbox vs. PlantPAx vs. RT-LAB vs. Wing Python IDE Comparison Chart

Model Predictive Control Toolbox™ provides functions, an app, Simulink® blocks, and reference examples for developing model predictive control (MPC). For linear problems, the toolbox supports the design of implicit, explicit, adaptive, and gain-scheduled MPC. For nonlinear problems, you can implement single- and multi-stage nonlinear MPC. The toolbox provides deployable optimization solvers and also enables you to use a custom solver. You can evaluate controller performance in MATLAB® and Simulink by running closed-loop simulations. For automated driving, you can also use the provided MISRA C®- and ISO 26262-compliant blocks and examples to quickly get started with lane keep assist, path planning, path following, and adaptive cruise control applications. Design implicit, gain-scheduled, and adaptive MPC controllers that solve a quadratic programming (QP) problem. Generate an explicit MPC controller from an implicit design. Use discrete control set MPC for mixed-integer QP problems.

RT-LAB is OPAL-RT’s real-time simulation software combining performance and enhanced user experience. Fully integrated with MATLAB/Simulink®, RT-LAB offers the most complex model-based design for interaction with real-world environments. It provides the flexibility and scalability to achieve the most complex real-time simulation applications in the automotive, aerospace, power electronics, and power systems industries. Since its first application nearly 20 years ago on the Canadian Space Agency’s Canada Arm, RT-LAB has revolutionized the world of systems engineering, whether in space, on the ground or at sea. RT-LAB enables engineers and scientists to accelerate the development of new prototypes and to meet the most rigorous testing required by new and innovative technologies. RT-LAB handles everything, including code generation, with an easy-to-use interface. With just a few clicks of the mouse, a Simulink® model becomes an interactive real-time simulation application.