"if" function ignoring condition
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Alexandru Bortea
on 17 Apr 2017
Commented: Andrew Newell
on 17 Apr 2017
I am trying to condition the RPM of an engine for a Launch control system. However with my function, the time t is completely ignored, the if loop going straight to the else part instead of holding constant RPM until t is bigger than I want. I also attached the variables so you can run the code yourself.
function rpm = rpm_fun(omega,gr,t)
global LCREV_MAX
if t < 1.5; % time during simulation, when clutch is engaged
rpm = LCREV_MAX;
else
rpm = omega.*60.*gr/(2*pi);
end
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Steven Lord
on 17 Apr 2017
Is t a vector? If so, take a look at the first paragraph of the Description section of the documentation for the if keyword.
"if expression, statements, end evaluates an expression, and executes a group of statements when the expression is true. An expression is true when its result is nonempty and contains only nonzero elements (logical or real numeric). Otherwise, the expression is false."
If t is a vector, as I suspect, the body of the if will only be executed if ALL the elements of t are less than 1.5. If even one element of t is not less than 1.5, the body of the else will execute.
If you want your function to return a vector of values the same size as t whose values contain one of the two values LCREV_MAX or omega.*60.*gr/(2*pi), use logical indexing.
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Andrew Newell
on 17 Apr 2017
Alexandru, you need to use the indexing on both sides. Here is a fix:
idx = t>LCREV_MAX;
rpm(idx) = omega(idx).*60.*gr(idx)./(2*pi)
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