How can I use the Cycloidal Drive block from Simscape in a SimMechanics model?
8 views (last 30 days)
Show older comments
Morgan
on 18 Dec 2014
Answered: Sebastian Castro
on 30 Jan 2015
When I try to connect the Cycloidal Drive block to elements of my multi-body SimMechanics model, it won't connect. Does anyone have a working example model that I can play with?
Thanks,
Morgan
0 Comments
Accepted Answer
Sebastian Castro
on 30 Jan 2015
Hi Morgan,
The Cycloidal Drive block is a SimDriveline block, which means it connects directly to other Simscape mechanical blocks (but not to SimMechanics). The reason is that SimMechanics uses a separate 3-D mechanical domain, while Simscape/SimDriveline is all 1-D rotation OR 1-D translation.
The way you connect Simscape blocks to a SimMechanics block is to place them along a joint primitive. There's a submission on the File Exchange which shows how you can do this.
Using the blocks from the above submission, you can interface your Simscape rotational domain with a SimMechanics revolute primitive as shown below.
- Sebastian
0 Comments
More Answers (0)
See Also
Categories
Find more on Brakes and Detents in Help Center and File Exchange
Community Treasure Hunt
Find the treasures in MATLAB Central and discover how the community can help you!
Start Hunting!