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1.1.9. What toolboxes are currently available from The MathWorks?

* Control System Toolbox. This is a toolbox for control system design and analysis. It supports transfer function and state-space forms (continuous/discrete time, frequency domain), as well as functions for step, impulse, and arbitrary input responses. Functions for Bode, Nyquist, Nichols plots, design with root-locus, pole-placement, and LQR optimal control are also included.
* Image Processing Toolbox. The Image Processing Toolbox builds on MATLAB's numeric, signal processing, and visualization capabilities to provide a comprehensive system for image processing and algorithm development.
* Model Predictive Control Toolbox. The Model Predictive Control Toolbox is especially useful for applications involving constraints on the manipulated and/or controlled variables. For unconstrained problems, model predictive control is closely related to linear quadratic optimal control, but includes modeling and tuning options that simplify the design procedure.
* Mu-Analysis and Synthesis Toolbox. The Mu-Analysis and Synthesis Toolbox contains specialized tools for the analysis and design of robust, linear control systems, extending MATLAB to provide additional application-specific capabilities.
* Neural Network Toolbox. This is a toolbox for designing and simulating neural networks and supports implementation of the perceptron learning rule, the Widrow-Hoff rule, and several variations of the backpropagation rule. Transfer functions included are hard limit, linear, logistic, and hypertangent sigmoid.
* Optimization Toolbox. This is a toolbox for linear and nonlinear optimization. It supports unconstrained and constrained minimization, minimax, nonlinear least squares, multi-objective, semi-infinite optimization, linear programming, quadratic programming, and the solution of nonlinear equations.
* Robust Control Toolbox. This is a toolbox for robust control system design and supports LQG/loop transfer recovery, H2, H0, and mu- control synthesis, singular value frequency response, and model reduction.
* Signal Processing Toolbox. This is a toolbox for digital signal processing (time series analysis). It includes functions for the design and analysis of digital filters, like Butterworth, Elliptic, and Parks-McClellan, and for FFT analysis (power spectrum estimation). It also includes some two-dimensional signal processing capabilities.
* Spline Toolbox. This is a toolbox for working with splines and is typically used for curve fitting, solution of function equations, and functional approximation.
* Statistics Toolbox. The Statistics Toolbox builds on the computational and graphics capabilities of MATLAB to provide: 1) statistical data analysis, modeling, and Monte Carlo simulation 2) building blocks for creating your own special-purpose statistical tools, and 3) GUI tools for exploring fundamental concepts in statistics and probability.
* Symbolic Math Toolbox. The Symbolic Math Toolbox contains functions for symbolic algebra, exact linear algebra, variable precision arithmetic, equation solving, and special mathematical functions. Its underlying computational engine is the kernel of Maple. The Extended Symbolic Math Toolbox augments the functionality to include Maple programming features and specialized libraries.
* System Identification Toolbox. This is a toolbox for parametric modeling. Identified models are in transfer function form (either z transform or Laplace transform) and state-space form (e.g., ARMA models or Box-Jenkins models).
The others are: Extended Symbolic Math Toolbox, Partial Differential Equation Toolbox, Mapping Toolbox, Curve Fitting Toolbox, Data Acquisition Toolbox, Instrument Control Toolbox, Image Acquisition Toolbox, Database Toolbox, Communications Toolbox, Wavelet Toolbox, Filter Design Toolbox, MATLAB Link for Code Composer Toolbox, Fuzzy Logic Toolbox, LMI Control Toolbox, Model-Based Calibration Toolbox, Financial Toolbox, Fixed-Income Toolbox, Financial Time Series Toolbox, GARCH Toolbox, Datafeed Toolbox, and Financial Derivatives Toolbox.

Toolkits are also available from The Mathworks, Inc. Toolkits are collections of M-files associated with books. These are available from the publisher or from ftp.mathworks.com in /pub/books .