Set From Workspace Block from Function

I am attempting to set simulink object values from a function to create Parallelizable code. My simple model is a "from Workspace" block to a scope:

I can easily set the simin block to send a rect with the following code:

sim_in = Simulink.SimulationInput('my_model');

simin.time = [0 1 2 3];
simin.signals.values = [0 0 1 0]';

out_data = sim(sim_in)

However I want to scale this up, to sending 100 different rect pulses, I am having trouble setting simin.time and simin.signals.values from within a function.

the goal of the code would look something like this:

mdl = 'my_model';
N = 100;
sim_in(1:N) = Simulink.SimulationInput(mdl);

for i = 1:N
    sim_in(i) = sim_in(i).setPreSimFcn(@(x) set_values(x, i));
end

out_data = sim(sim_in);

function set_values(sim_in, t)
    simin.time = [0 t t+1 t+2];
    simin.signals.values = [0 0 1 0]';
end

How do I set the simin block from within the set_values function? The end goal is to replace the sim(sim_in) with parsim(sim_in).

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Rahul Kumar]

Hi Alec,

You can use the setVariable method on the SimulationInput object to specify a new value for the variable

Here is your modified script (I have also reduced number of simulations to 10 so that you can pause in the set_values function and see the scope change)

mdl = 'my_model';
N = 10;
sim_in(1:N) = Simulink.SimulationInput(mdl);
for i = 1:N
    sim_in(i) = sim_in(i).setPreSimFcn(@(x) set_values(x, i));
end
out_data = sim(sim_in);

function sim_in = set_values(sim_in, t)
    simin.time = [0 t t+1 t+2];
    simin.signals.values = [0 0 1 0]';
    sim_in = sim_in.setVariable('simin', simin);
end

Please try it out and let me know if you have any more questions.

-- Rahul