Duty cycle Matlab funciton is Simulink. Error! -Undefined function or variable 'duty_cycle'. The first assignment to a local variable determines its class.

Hi,

I want to make a function which would vary the duty cycler of a converter to get 400V output.

UNfortunately I am getting the error: Undefined function or variable 'duty_cycle'. The first assignment to a local variable determines its class.

This is my code. can you tell me what I should do?

function duty_cycle = dutycycle(Voltage_grid,past_duty)

duty_cycle_=0

if Voltage_grid>400

duty_cycle=duty_cycle-0.1

end

if Voltage_grid<400

duty_cycle=duty_cycle+0.1

end

if Voltage_grid==400

duty_cycle=past_duty

end

end

Answer 1

[Fangjun Jiang]

Two comments.

1. Feed the "duty_cycle" to a "unit delay" block and then connect it to "past_duty".
2. The first line inside your MATLAB Function should be "duty_cycle=past_duty;"

This way, you'll be able to regulate the voltage.

[Mario Nikolov]

Thank you very much. I realized the error disappeared and the simulation now works. It is my first time working with simulink and I am still quite the noob. Do you happen to know how I can make now that my output keeps 400V because for some reason althogh the function tries to keep 400 it is kinda stuck on very low voltages...

[Fangjun Jiang]

Your feedback control logic seems right however there are many elements in the loop. You just need to debug along the loop to see if all the signals make sense. You might also need to increase the "Gain" for this simple PI controller.

[Mario Nikolov]

Okay senpai. Thank you. Do capacitors and inductors change the voltage outputs, besides duty cycle?