Model Browser User's Guide

Checking into MBC

Having created a Simulink model and the corresponding template file, save each somewhere on the path. One place to put these files is

• <MATLAB root>\toolbox\mbc\mbcsimulink\
  

To ensure that the transient model you have defined provides an interface that allows MBC to evaluate and fit it, we check in the model. If this procedure succeeds, the model is registered by MBC and is thereafter available for fitting at the local level whenever appropriate input data is being used.

Check In

At the command line, with both template file and Simulink models on the path, create a model and some input data, then call checkin. For fuelPuddle the procedure would be

1. Create appropriate input data. The data is not important; it is to check if the model can be evaluated.

• t = [0:0.1:4*pi]'; u = sin(t); %% creates a sine wave input factor
  X = [t,u];
  

2. Create a transient model using the template/Simulink model called fuelPuddle:

• m = xregtransient('name','fuelPuddle');
  

3. Call checkin with the transient model, its name, and the data.

• checkin(m, 'fuelpuddle', X);
  

This creates some command line output, and a figure appears with the model name and variable names displayed over graphs of input and model evaluation output. The final command line output (if checkin is called with a semicolon as above) is

• Model successfully registered for MBC
  

A figure is displayed for fuelPuddle.

Subfunctions

MBC Modeling