![]() ![]() This further bridges the gap from simulation to practice. ![]() This on-line real-time monitoring and tuning utility is a great asset for rapid control prototyping. You can tune parameters on the fly with QUARC, and monitor signals with the aid of scopes and displays while your code is deployed and running. With QUARC, you can take this one step further, and deploy the Simulink model as a real-time application on numerous platforms including Windows and Linux based systems. This offers engineering students all over the world a bridge between theory and simulation. You can see the direct parallel between a theoretical model and its representation in Simulink below. Simulink for Controlsįor years, we primarily had support for MATLAB/Simulink with our real-time control software QUARC, Simulink offers some great advantages for designing and simulating controls applications. ![]() They are quite common in the engineering world, for both teaching and research. I am going to focus this blog on Simulink and Python. Having developed software for embedded real-time applications for controls, robotics and machine vision, here is my take on this matter. This blog is not an attempt to convert your allegiance, but rather share some thoughts I have collected from Quanser engineers over the years on MATLAB/Simulink and Python, embellished with my own experiences. This list will be even narrower if you are considering programming for robotics and controls. Industrial Applications & Process Controlĭid you know that there are over 8000 programming languages that have been developed and used so far? Most people can’t name them all, but as a scientist some names would pop into your mind including C++, Python, Java, C#, even MATLAB.In the next part, we’ll discuss a few more enhancements to this feature. In R2010b, comment wrapping abides by this simple rule: if there’s no whitespace, don’t break! This means that URLs, or any long strings, are preserved: That’s no good for reading and was particularly pernicious for publishing: This was true with automatic comment wrapping as well – if you were typing a long string and reached the right-hand margin, it would break. One frustrating behavior of comment wrapping prior to R2010b was that if your comments contained text that shouldn’t be broken, such as a URL in publishing hyperlink markup, comment wrapping would go ahead and break it: This allows independent “paragraphs” of comments to remain intact and prevents them from being strung together, even if you do a “Select All” > “Wrap Comments” to reformat your whole file. So a non-comment line, a blank line, or a comment indented differently each represents the end of a section. So what defines a section? Hopefully, exactly what you’d think: a series of contiguous, identically-indented comment lines. Note that the Editor wraps only the current “section” of comments. This allows you to tidy up what you’ve written without taking you out of the flow of typing. Your caret could in fact be anywhere on lines one through five. Now you can simply press Ctrl-J to reformat this section of comments, and your caret remains at the same location in the text that it had before. For example, suppose your caret were at the end of line 5 below: But much more conveniently, you can skip making a selection and just let the Editor infer the current section of comments for you. Previous to R2010b, if you wanted to reformat a section of comments as you edited, you first had to select the region that needed reformatting and then press Ctrl-J (or Shift-Fan-W on the Mac). In R2010b, we’ve made this feature easier and more powerful. The feature also includes automatic comment wrapping, which occurs as you type beyond the end of a line. In short, comment wrapping is a feature of the MATLAB Editor (accessible via the “Text” > “Wrap Comments” menu item) that allows you to go from ragged, messy comments: ![]() In the second part, we’ll cover more advanced maneuvers for the serious comment writer. In this first part, we’ll introduce comment wrapping and talk about how it’s now easier to use. In this two-part series, we’ll take a detailed dive into those improvements. In R2010b we made a series of improvements to the “comment wrapping” feature in the MATLAB Editor. ![]()
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