How to create time varying inertia with Simscape Multibody?
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Taeho Oh
on 11 Jul 2017
Edited: Sebastian Castro
on 26 Oct 2017
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Hi.
I want to create an object whose inertia changes according to time or position, and to see how the angular acceleration changes as the object rotates. For example, Figure 1.
So I made it like the Figure 2 and 3. Using a Simscape Multibody.
However, when we measured angular velocity, it showed constant acceleration as shown in Figure 4.
Which part do I need to modify to work as I intended?
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Sebastian Castro
on 11 Jul 2017
Edited: Sebastian Castro
on 26 Oct 2017
EDIT: Variable solid blocks have been released in R2017b.
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That object has fixed moments of inertia, so it's expected that the angular acceleration stays the same.
More generally, variable-mass/inertia solids are not yet available in the latest version of Simscape Multibody. It is being considered for a future release. If you absolutely need it now, the First Generation block library will let you do this; however, those blocks are no longer maintained and there is functionality that isn't available in that library but is in the latest blocks.
- Sebastian
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