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We hope the book will be helpful to spread the awareness and use of Xcos for modeling dynamical systems. There are a few books available for teaching basic concepts of Xcos, which is the basic motivation to write this book. The Xcos models of all the examples included in this book are available at. Starting from the basic concepts, the book gradually builds advanced concepts, making it suitable for freshmen and professionals. Therefore, the book is written in simple language with many sample problems in mathematics, science, and engineering. The basic objective to write this book is to teach Xcos in a friendly, non-intimidating fashion, without any previous modeling experience. Further, many commercial developers are also using it to reduce their project cost and has reported many successful applications.
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Since Xcos is available free of cost to everyone across the globe and is continuously upgraded by a strong team of open source developers, it is suitable for all undergraduate students, researchers, professors and professionals in any field of Science and Engineering. For advanced users, Xcos provides facilities to create new blocks and to create their own libraries to further extend the capabilities of Xcos. These blocks can be dragged and dropped into the model editor to create a simulation model.
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Xcos contains a rich library of commonly used blocks, arranged in various palettes for the convenience of searching them, for elementary operations needed to construct models of many dynamical systems. Xcos provides a modular approach to model complex dynamical systems using a block diagram editor. Further, it provides facilities to seamlessly integrate continuous and discrete components in a single model, making it capable to handle hybrid dynamical systems. Xcos is useful for modeling continuous and discrete dynamical systems. Its capabilities are comparable to commercially available block-based modeling and simulation tools, including Simulink®, one of the most popular commercial tool. Xcos is a very powerful and open source block-based modeling and simulation system for dynamical systems.