App Designer interaction with MATLAB/SIMULINK/SIMSCAPE

The project I am going to start involves usage of MATLAB, SIMULINK and SIMSCAPE. At the end, I need to create a standalone app which has simple inputs and 3d plot as output where the prgram is done in those software. How can I incorporote those into app desginer and give a standalone app?

Answer 1

[Harsha Priya Daggubati]

Hi, 

You can write the values which you want to plot in a ‘mat file’ and load the mat file formed in the App Designer Code and proceed further by referring the “UIAxes” to generate a 3D plot on it.

For instance:

Try executing this code by adding “startupFcn” callback in App Designer, which gives a 3D plot on the “UIAxes” added in “UIFigure”.

In MATLAB:

[X,Y] = meshgrid(1:0.5:10,1:20); 
Z = sin(X) + cos(Y); 
save ( 'variables.mat' , 'X' , 'Y' , 'Z'); 

In App Designer startupFcn callback method:

load variables.mat; 
surf(app.UIAxes, X,Y,Z); 

[Prasanna Venkatesh]

@ Harsha Priya Daggubati

Basically my app need to take simple data from user and do complex program in MATLAB/Simulink/Simscape ang give a simple output. So the standalone app which will be used by Non-Matlab user, should run the programs that I have written in MATLAB/Simulink/Simscape. How to bridge all these? or How to transform the codes in those softwares to app deigner code?

[Harsha Priya Daggubati]

I suggest to take your inputs from App designer textfields(assuming your Inputs are simple),add a callback to your MATLAB code which does your required work and then plot your output.

[Prasanna Venkatesh]

Yeah. I have done that. But when I make into a standalone app will that MATLAB function (Callback) will be integrated into the the app design code? What about Simulink and Simscape codes?

Answer 2

[Harsha Priya Daggubati]

You can call your simulink/simscape models programmatically.

Refer to the following links:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/simulink/ug/using-the-sim-command.html#mw_13764672-77b5-469a-8b1e-d2c587c500f4

https://www.mathworks.com/help/simulink/ug/using-the-sim-command.html