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Programming a PARROT Minidrone using Simulink
You know what I did this weekend? Yes, as the title of this post says, I deployed custom flight control software to my Parrot Rolling Spider Minidrone Simulink Support Package for PARROT Minidrones...
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Highlight To Source and Destination: A new way to navigate your model
In the United States, Thanksgiving weekend is probably the weekend where the roads are the busiest. For those of you who got stuck in traffic to visit family and friends this past weekend, I thought I...
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Simulating the World’s longest Ultra High Voltage Transmission Line with...
This week, I am happy to welcome guest blogger Hao Chen who will describe how Simscape Power Systems can be used to simulate the world's longest (3324 km) Ultra High Voltage DC (± 1100 kV) transmission...
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Simscape and Operating Point Management
In MATLAB R2017b, we added capabilities to manage operating points for Simscape models. In this post, I will show an example of how to use this feature, and describe the possibilities it introduces....
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Who’s Calling?
Did you know that it is possible to visualize the calling of Simulink Functions using the Sequence Viewer? Let's see how that works and in what type of situations it can be particularly useful. The...
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The Simulink Curling Simulator… Version 2018
For those reading this blog for a few years, you probably remember that during the 2014 Winter Olympics, we published a curling simulator implemented in Simulink. With the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic...
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Simulating the Olympic Ski Jump Competition
This week I am happy to welcome guest blogger Zack Peters to describe how he implemented the simulation of a ski jump, similar to the Men's large Hill Individual event of the PyeongChang Winter...
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What’s New in R2018a!
MATLAB R2018a is now available, let's go through a few of my favorite enhancements to Simulink in this release. Strings It has been a long time since we added a new section to the Simulink section of...
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MATLAB Online, MATLAB Mobile, MATLAB Drive… and Simulink
I have never written about these topics on this blog because this is not specific to Simulink, but... I am a big fan of MATLAB Online and MATLAB Drive. Today I will describe how I use these and...
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Communicating with an External Application for Co-Simulation
Today I am describing an example that I recently submitted to MATLAB Central and GitHub with the help of my colleague Haihua Feng: Example implementation of Co-simulation using Simulink. In case you...
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Simulation Data Inspector in R2018a
Over the past few releases, many enhancements have been added to the Simulation Data Inspector. Let's look at a few of those I particularly like. Browse Mode By default, in the Simulation Data...
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New Capabilities for Block Masking
Earlier this week, I had to debug an issue related to a block mask in MATLAB R2012b. This made me realize that I have not written about masking in a long time. So many capabilities have been added in...
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Visualizing Fixed-Point Algebraic Loops
A few days ago I had to debug a very large model generating an error similar to the following: In my case, the loop involved more than a hundred blocks and signals spread everywhere in the model and...
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Continuous Integration with Simulink Project and Simulink Test
A few days ago, my colleague Mariano published a blog post on the Developer Zone describing how to run a MATLAB Test suite on a Continuous Integration server every time changes are pushed to a Git...
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Optimizing Data Types with the Fixed-Point Tool
Have you ever had one of those days... ? The Explanation When I see things like that, my first reflex is usually to turn on most of the items in the Display menu. In this case, displaying the port data...
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What’s New in R2018b!
MATLAB R2018b is now available! In this first post about R2018b, I decided to highlight enhancements to the Simulink editor that will hopefully speed up model creation. Group Block Rotation and Flip I...
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Arduino Engineering Kit
Have you heard of the Arduino Engineering Kit? If you are interested in DIY projects and are looking for a fun way to apply some control and robotics principles to a real system, you probably want to...
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Help your friends and colleagues learn Simulink with Simulink Onramp
Have you heard of Simulink Onramp? If you visited matlabacademy.mathworks.com recently, you probably noticed that MATLAB Onramp has a new friend! If you are new to Simulink or you have friends or...
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Internal Combustion Engine Ignition Control Example – Part 1
This post introduces an example project I recently submitted to MATLAB Central: Four-Cylinder Engine Ignition Control Simulation This project was made in collaboration with Isaac Hisahiro Ito at Toyota...
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Internal Combustion Engine Ignition Controller Example – Part 2
In my previous post, I introduced an example I recently published on MATLAB Central: Four-Cylinder Engine Ignition Control Simulation. After describing how the plant model has been implemented, it is...
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