Khaled N. Virtual Reality and Animation for MatLAB and Simulink Users: Visualization of Dynamic Models and Control Simulations

Springer. 2012. - 181 p. ISBN: 9781447123293.
Book language: EnglishVirtual Reality and Animation for MatLAB and Simulink Users: Visualization of Dynamic Models and Control Simulations. Whether the reader wants to model the dynamics of a simple pendulum or design a controller for a robot arm, it is always useful to be able to animate the dynamic model. Animation of a dynamic model enables one to observe all the degrees of freedom of a system at once, rather than looking at 2D and 3D plots of simulated data. Such animations serve as a debugging tool for developing the dynamic model in hand. It can also help in preliminary assessment of the performance of the controller. In addition, animations can help students and less-technical udience to understand the end results of a dynamic model without going into lengthy mathematical derivations.