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Lecture 10: Simulink

Dr. Mohammed Hawa

Electrical Engineering Department
University of Jordan

EE201: Computer Applications. See Textbook Chapter 10.

What is Simulink?
• Simulink is a tool for modeling, simulating and
analyzing dynamic systems.
• Its primary interface is a graphical block
diagramming tool and a customizable set of block
libraries.
• It supports linear and nonlinear systems, modeled
in continuous time, discrete time, or a hybrid of
both.
• It easily integrates with the rest of the MATLAB
environment.
• Simulink is widely used in control theory and
digital signal processing for simulation and
model-based design.
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Starting Simulink
• To build a
Simulink model,
choose File | New
| Model.
• To see the
Simulink library
of blocks click on
the Simulink icon
in MATLAB.

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Library Browser & Model Window

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Drag & Drop

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• Sources | Sine Wave

• Continuous | Integrator
• Signal Routing| Mux
• Sinks | Scope
• To connect blocks,
move the cursor to the
output port
represented by ">"
sign. Once placed at a
port, the cursor will
turn into a cross "+"
enabling you to make
the connection between
blocks.
• Run the simulation of
the simple system
shown by clicking on
the play icon.
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Scope Results
• Double click on the
scope block to see the
results of the
simulation.
• To view/edit the
parameters of a block,
double click on the
block to see the Block
Parameters window.
• Try changing the initial
condition of the
Integrator from 0 to -1.

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Blocks & Model File

• MATLAB uses the default values of the block
parameters, except where you explicitly change
them.
• You can always click on Help within the Block
Parameters window to obtain more information.
• You can edit the label of a block by clicking on the
text and making the changes.
• You can search for Blocks in the Simulink search
window.
• You can save the Simulink model as .mdl file by
selecting File | Save menu item in Simulink.
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Exercise: Modulation
Blocks:
• Sources: Repeating
Sequence
• Sources: Since Wave
• Math Operation: Product
• Math Operation: Gain • Sine Wave:
• Sinks: Scope • Frequency: 50 rad/s
Edit the following properties: • Sample time: 0.01
• Repeating Sequence: • Gain: 2
– Time Values: [0 1 2 3 4 5 6] • Simulation Stop Time:
– Output Values: [0 1 1 0 -1 -1 0] • 12 seconds

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Results

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Exercise: Sending data to Workspace.

Notice the “Clock” and “To Workspace” blocks.

Set simulation time to 13 seconds.

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Double-click on the To Workspace block. You can specify any

variable name you want as the output; the default is
simout. Change its name to y.

The output variable y will have as many rows as there are

simulation time steps, and as many columns as there are
inputs to the block.

The second column in our simulation will be time, because

of the way we have connected the Clock to the second
input port of the Mux.

Specify the Save format as Array. Use the default values for
the other parameters (these should be inf, 1, and -1 for
Maximum number of rows, Decimation, and Sample time,
respectively). Click on OK.
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Simulink can be configured to put the time variable tout

into the MATLAB workspace automatically when you are
using the To Workspace block.

This is done with the Data I/O tab under Configuration

Parameters on the Simulation menu.

The alternative is to use the Clock block to put tout into

the workspace.

The Clock block has one parameter, Decimation. Set this

parameter to 1, which means the Clock block will output
the time every time step; if set to 10 for example, the block
will output every 10 time steps, and so on.

In MATLAB, try: plot(y(:,2), y(:,1))

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Result
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Simulation diagrams for x = dy/dt = 10 f (t )

= dy/dt

Simulation diagram for dy/dt = f (t) − 10y

dy/dt

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Exercise: Simulink model to solve the first-order ODE

dy/dt = −10y + 2sin(4t) ૙ ≤ ࢚ ≤ ૜

Homework: Use Simulink to solve the second-order ODE

d2x/dt2 = 5cos(2t) -3 dx/dt - 4x ૚≤࢚≤૜
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Result

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Homework
• Solve as many problems from Chapter 10
as you can
• Suggested problems:
• Solve: 10.1, 10.3, 10.4.

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