Rapid control prototyping in hydraulic applications

Like many other fields of the technical world, hydraulic engineering and in particular its mobile applications is affected by a rapid rise in the number of controlled systems and increasing complexity of these control loops. The demands made on control quality and the variety of integrated functions are constantly increasing. Above all, industry expects that innovative ideas are transferred to the practical level without delay and that changes in the boundary conditions of a given problem are responded to with equal speed. In order to prepare for these requests, it is advisable to view and discuss modern total development environments and numeric methods, which have successfully been used for some time in other branches, e.g, the automotive industry.