RecurDyn CoLink enables you to model control systems which interact with your mechanical models. This plays an important role since design algorithms of a controller and the corresponding mechanical system should be evaluated simultaneously when simulating a computer-controlled system. The control system design environment is completely integrated within RecurDyn for easy operation.
RecurDyn CoLink is a powerful, flexible, and efficient controls design and simulation tool. Control systems are designed graphically using block modeling. RecurDyn Professional and all of its toolkits can be coupled with RecurDyn CoLink, using RecurDyn Professional as a plant model for the control system.
RecurDyn CoLink has a large library of electronic controller components. It has a very simple and intuitive user interface to enable very rapid development of sophisticated control systems.RecurDyn CoLink is highly extensible. Control blocks can be customized using the C programming language. RecurDyn CoLink uses Ch, a C-language scripting engine, to allow scripts written in ANSI-compatible. C can be used directly in control blocks to customize their behavior. An external compiler is not required.
Control systems modeled using RecurDyn CoLink execute extremely efficiently. RecurDyn CoLink is tightly coupled with RecurDyn Professional at the formulation level. It is not co-simulated. Therefore, it executes for more efficiently than co-simulated control systems modeling software coupled with a third-party multibody dynamics code.