SimElectronics 1.1

Product Description

• Introduction and Key Features
• Modeling Electronic and Electromechanical Systems
• Modeling Sensors and Actuators
• Modeling Electronic Components
• Extending Model Capabilities
• Developing Algorithms with Simulink® and SimElectronics™

Modeling Sensors and Actuators

SimElectronics includes a number of sensors that let you incorporate the non-ideal behavior of sensor hardware in your model. Models of a shaft encoder and a proximity sensor let you capture the inaccuracies of sensing mechanical systems so that you can design that into your system. Similarly, models of a thermistor and a thermocouple let you incorporate both the dynamics and inaccuracies of sensing thermal quantities into your system design. Other sensors (strain gauge, photodiode) are included in the library to enable you to include other effects into your system as well.

A library of actuators is included in SimElectronics so that you can model actuation in your system. Different types of actuator models (such as DC motor, shunt motor, universal motor, and solenoid) let you experiment with different actuation solutions for your system. In addition to that, different drivers (for example, H-bridge or controlled PWM voltage) help you drive the actuation of the system in your model. The drivers allow both detailed simulation of PWM waveforms for actuator design and abstracted simulation behavior to support fast system-level simulation.

SimElectronics™ library of sensors for capturing non-ideal behavior of sensor hardware. Click on image to see enlarged view.