{"id":1450,"date":"2025-04-14T12:11:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T16:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10003\/dsa-tools-module\/cdt-control-design-toolbox\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:48:00","slug":"cdt-control-design-toolbox","status":"publish","type":"dsa-tools-module","link":"https:\/\/powertechlabs.com\/dsa-tools-module\/cdt-control-design-toolbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Control Design Toolbox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powertechlabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SSAT-CDT-1.png\" alt=\"SSAT-CDT\" itemprop=\"image\" title=\"SSAT-CDT\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<h3>Control Design Toolbox<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Control Design Toolbox (CDT) is a software tool that offers a systematic way to tune power system stabilizers (including the addition and tuning of new stabilizers) by taking advantage of the comprehensive modeling and computation options available in DSAToolsTM.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Power system stabilizers (PSS) have been extensively used in power systems as a very effective meansto provide damping control for electro-mechanical oscillations. Successful application of powersystem stabilizers depends on the careful design of their functional structure and regular tuning oftheir parameters in order to accommodate the ever changing and evolving system characteristicsand conditions. Traditionally, the tuning of power system stabilizers has been a challenging taskinvolving the use of a variety of tools and techniques with extensive human expertise and interaction.<\/p>\n<p>The Control Design Toolbox provides a set of specially designed interfaces and options that guide the user through a complete PSS tuning process. Most of the computations required are performed by automatic calls to the appropriate programs in DSAToolsTM or MATLAB\u00ae.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powertechlabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/powertech-cdt-featured-image-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot\" itemprop=\"image\" title=\"Screenshot\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\tProduct Features\n\t\t\t\t<ul>\n<li>Easy-to-use GUI guides the user through complete power system stabilizer (PSS) tuning procedure<\/li>\n<li>Tuning can be done for individual generators or for specific inter-area modes<\/li>\n<li>Field-proven tuning method<\/li>\n<li>Support for common PSS models and input types<\/li>\n<li>Fully integrated with MATLAB\u00ae and Powertech&#8217;s DSAToolsTM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\tPSS Tuning Options\n\t\t\t\t<p>Two PSS tuning objectives are available to suit different applications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tuning for inter-area modes:<\/strong> This computes all inter-area modes in a specified frequency range and then identifies the generators that have best controllability to the critical modes. PSS will be tuned on these generators to achieve the best possible damping to the modes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tuning for individual generators:<\/strong> This focuses on tuning PSS for specified generators for damping improvement of all modes associated with the generators.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powertechlabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/powertech-cdt-pss-tuning-options-1-300x88.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"88\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PSS can be tuned with one of two methods:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manual method, which allows tuning individual stabilizers with customized parameters so as to achieve the desired results.<\/li>\n<li>Automatic method, which allows effectively tuning of a large number of PSS with a set of pre-specified parameters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powertechlabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/powertech-cdt-pss-tuning-options-2-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/powertechlabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/powertech-cdt-pss-tuning-options-3-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t\t\tMain Features\n\t\t\t\t<ul>\n<li>Field-proven PSS tuning method.<\/li>\n<li>Customizable PSS parameters and tuning constraints.<\/li>\n<li>Supports a variety of common PSS models and input types.<\/li>\n<li>Handles very large power system models (up to 100,000 buses and 15,000 generators).<\/li>\n<li>Compatible model and data requirements with DSAToolsTM and major third-party software.<\/li>\n<li>Creates automatically Word and text report with PSS tuning details and results.<\/li>\n<li>Wizard-type graphical user interface to guide through a complete PSS tuning procedure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\tSpecifications and Requirements\n\t\t\t\t<ul>\n<li>Runs on MS Windows 7\/10\/server 2012 R2\/server 2016<\/li>\n<li>Requires SSAT, MATLAB and its Optimization Toolbox.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1735,"template":"","application-type":[16],"audience":[18,29],"compliance-standard":[],"module-type":[24],"class_list":["post-1450","dsa-tools-module","type-dsa-tools-module","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","application-type-offline","audience-for-academia","audience-for-researchers","module-type-add-on"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertechlabs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dsa-tools-module\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertechlabs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dsa-tools-module"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertechlabs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dsa-tools-module"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertechlabs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertechlabs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"application-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertechlabs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/application-type?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertechlabs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"compliance-standard","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertechlabs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/compliance-standard?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"module-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertechlabs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module-type?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}