How can i use instrument control toolbox to read a potentiometer to control a simscape multibody model?

Hello everyone.

So basically i already have the model in simpscape working, but now i have to use a potetiometer via arduino to move the model in real time. I have already seen a lot of tutorials online but they use a old version of instrument control toolbox and they basically dont work anymore. Is there a oficial guide for this? thx

Answer 1

[Jacob Mathew]

Hey Martin,

You can take a look at the following example that uses Serial Blocks to send and recieve information from an Arduino®.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/instrument/communicate-with-arduino-server-using-serial-blocks.html

The documentation for these blocks are as follows:

• Serial Configuration - https://www.mathworks.com/help/instrument/serialconfiguration.html
• Serial Recieve - https://www.mathworks.com/help/instrument/serialreceive.html
• Serial Send - https://www.mathworks.com/help/instrument/serialsend.html

You also mentioned that a number of guides you used where non functioning as they were for older versions of MATLAB. You can refer the following examples which are starting points for various ways to connect using Instrument Control Toolbox:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/instrument/examples.html