Controlling output from Simulink

Hi all

My simulink is running at a fixed time step of 0.1 and i need my block to produce output at alternate time like 0,0.2,0.4,etc

Can GetTimeOfNextVarHit of lvl 1 S-function block fulfil this requirement?

If not how should i do it?

[Tan Edwin]

just tested GetTimeOfNextVarHit, it seems to only give me a transport delay?

Answer 1

[Kaustubha Govind]

Why not set the S-function sample time to 2*ssGetFixedStepSize(S) in mdlInitializeSampleTimes? You might also want to protect your code using ssIsVariableStepSolver to ensure that a variable-step solver isn't being used.

[Tan Edwin]

wat is the equivalence of ssGetFixedStepSize in m programming language? cos im not trained in C, C++ programming.

and it is a lvl 2 s-function right?

thanks

[Kaustubha Govind]

Try str2num(get_param(bdroot,'FixedStep'))

Answer 2

[Andreas Goser]

Check out the menu:

Simulation -> Configuration Parameters -> Data Import/Export

In your example, you could just enter a decimation of 2. But you have also other option, see the pull-down "Output options". You can e.g. produce additional output.

[Tan Edwin]

i actually have other blocks in my .mdl that need to run at the fixed time of 0.1 so wouldnt this method affect all the other blocks?

i just need the one block to run at alternate time and the rest at normal time.

Thanks for the suggestion and so sorry that i didn't make myself clear earlier.

Answer 3

[Paulo Silva]

Try with the matlab Fcn block

out=u(1) %or out=u

It will put the value in the block input to the variable out in the matlab workspace, that way you can share data with other models, do the same thing to get data from the workspace

out %the value of out will be the output of the Fcn block

And maybe putting 0.2 on the matlab Fcn sample time will only update or get the out value each 0.2 seconds.

[Tan Edwin]

what do you mean by "matlab workspace"? is it the main workspace where the mat files are saved?

[Paulo Silva]

the code that you put in your matlab fcn block are just like the ones you execute in the command line, same memory area.