'SLASH' ALGOL SIMULATED HYBRID COMPUTER,
Abstract
The Algol language program SLASH (Seiler Laboratory Algol Simulated Hybrid) is a development from the FORTRAN MIDAS program. SLASH provides Burroughs B-5000 and B-5500 users an analog simulation capability, SADSAC (Seiler Algol Digitally Simulated Analog Computer), and it also goes a step further to provide a hybrid simulation, in which the analog simulation is coupled with an Algol control program that has been tailored for a specific problem. In essence the 'control program' allows mode control of the analog program as well as adjustment of parameters and initial conditions. This hybrid character is particularly suited to the iterative optimal control problems, but it also has general application to any system of ordinary differential equations. SLASH allows a significant reduction in programming time and effort over the normal digital and analog methods; therefore, its use is quite advantageous for problems which will be run only a limited number of times without changes or modifications. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 31, 1965
- Accession Number
- AD0465935
Entities
People
- James E. Funk
Organizations
- Air Force Research Laboratory