Patent ID: 7890198

Claim:
In an electronic device, a method of manipulating a control system representation having a plurality of distributed single input single output (SISO) compensators, the method comprising: providing a graphical user interface (GUI) associated with a simulation environment for simulating the control system representation, the GUI incorporating a plurality of configurable views related to the control system representation; receiving an input through the GUI to modify a parameter of a first SISO compensator of the plurality of distributed SISO compensators; modifying the parameter of the first SISO compensator with a first modification in accordance with the received input, the parameter having a value representative of a substantially constant characteristic of the control system representation; operating the first SISO compensator to generate a resulting output; automatically updating one or more parameters of a remainder of the plurality of SISO compensators with a second modification based on the first modification and the resulting output of the first SISO compensator, the updating occurring contemporaneous with and resulting from modifying the parameter and operating the first SISO compensator; operating the remainder of the plurality of the SISO compensators to generate one or more outputs, the remainder of the plurality of the SISO compensators including a second SISO compensator and a third SISO compensator; and simultaneously displaying the plurality of configurable views related to the control system representation with one or more updated parameters of the remainder of the plurality of SISO compensators, the plurality of configurable views related to the control system representation including a first plot of one or more outputs of the second SISO compensator and a second plot of one or more outputs of the third SISO compensator, the displaying occurring simultaneously with the modifying the parameter of the first SISO compensator.