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| rtint-gui: Desktop GUI for Real-Time Control | A desktop application to acquire signals, identify plant dynamics and design feedback control on a real-time target. |
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Active | 2026-09-01 | https://gitlab.esrf.fr/dehaeze/real-time-interface-gui | https://dehaeze.gitlab-pages.esrf.fr/real-time-interface-gui/ | https://pypi.org/project/rtint-gui/ |
Overview
rtint-gui is a desktop application for working with a real-time target that runs a Resyst server.
It is built on top of [rtint]({{< relref "real-time-interface" >}}), which handles the communication with the target, and follows the usual steps of a control task:
- Connect to a running server.
- Acquire signals from the target.
- Analyse the records as time traces and spectra (PSD / ASD).
- Identify the plant dynamics by measuring frequency responses.
- Design feedback control from the identified dynamics.
Each step is a page of the application.
Pages
- Signal Analysis: choose counters and model signals, set a duration, watch the acquisition live, then compute power spectra with configurable window, overlap and averaging.
- Dynamical Identification: excite the plant with a generator and estimate its frequency response (Bode plot, coherence, and an RGA plot for multi-input multi-output systems). Open-loop and closed-loop identification are supported.
- Transfer Function Analysis: overlay measured responses with the Bode plots of the filters running on the target, and with their products.
- Feedback Control Design: from an identified plant and the filters used as controller, compute characteristic loci, sensitivity and complementary sensitivity, the modulus margin and a Nyquist stability verdict.
- Filters, motors, EtherCAT, parameters and more: inspect and edit what the real-time model exposes.
Results are saved as MATLAB .mat files, so they can be reopened in MATLAB or Python.
The analysis pages also work offline on previously saved data, without a target.
Installation
pipx install rtint-gui # or: uv tool install rtint-gui
rtint-gui
Python 3.12 or 3.13 is required.
The interface uses PySide6 and pyqtgraph.
Running rtint-gui --offline starts it without a real-time target.
The documentation has a guide for each page and a description of the .mat file format.
Related
- [rtint]({{< relref "real-time-interface" >}}): the Python package this application is built on.