Simulink Tutorial Introduction Starting the Program

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Christopher Lum
Autonomous Flight Systems Laboratory
Updated: 11/01/06
Simulink Tutorial
Introduction
This document is designed to act as a tutorial for an individual who has had no prior
experience with Simulink. It is assumed that the reader has already read through the
Beginner and Intermediate Matlab Tutorials. For any questions or concerns, please
contact
Christopher Lum
lum@u.washington.edu
Starting the Program
1. Start Matlab.
2. Simulink is an extra toolbox that runs on top of Matlab. To start this, type
“simulink” in the Command Window or click on the Simulink icon.
Figure 1: Starting Simulink using icon or Command Window. Christopher W. Lum lum@u.washington.edu Page 2/13
3. The simulink interface should now appear as shown below in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Simulink interface
4. Start a new Simulink model using File > New > Model
5. Let’s use Simulink to simulate the response of the Mass/Spring/Damper system
described in Intermediate Matlab Tutorial document. Recall that the state space
representation of this system was given by
x& = Ax + Bu Equation 1
y = Cx + Du…