Introduction to Simulink®
Roland Priemer · Institution of Engineering and Technology eBooks · 2013
Simulink® is a facility for modeling and analyzing dynamic systems. With its graphical user interface (GUI), you can build a block diagram model of a dynamic system and then run the model. Simulink includes many libraries of ready to use blocks that represent both linear and nonlinear continuous and discrete time operations. There are libraries of blocks for synthesizing signals and for observing signals. You can also design your own blocks. A Simulink simulation can access MATLAB data files and functions, and output results to MATLAB for further analysis and visualization. While a simulation executes, you can view any part of model behavior as it changes with time. In this chapter, you will learn how to build a model of a dynamic system using Simulink blocks, design a block, simulate a system and observe its behavior and use MATLAB functions in a Simulink simulation.