I'd like to use the Data Signal Processing toolbox in MATLAB, if I buy a MATLAB license and the toolbox, do I need to buy Simulink too?
What exactly does Simulink do? (In layman's terms.)
No you don't need to buy Simulink for that.
Layman terms... Simulink is kind of a graphical programming interface, where code is seen in terms of little boxes.
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I would like to create a project using a Matlab simulink environment model to find optimal parameters using reinforcement learning. Is it possible to export the environment data from matlab simulink and incorporate it into a python script or to create an interface to matlab simulink in order to train interactively with it? Or is there a better approach?
Unfortunately, this is rather vague, so I'm sorry, as I do not know what the matlab model will look like. It would also be helpful for me to see an example project or something along the lines of accessing Matlab Simulink data and reinforcement learning.
Thank you very much.
To create an interface with python script and the Simulink simulation, you can use MATLAB Engine for Python.
I could find a sample implementation in this blog. You can extend the simulate function in this example with an RL Agent to determine an action.
You can use simulink and generate coder from simulink. You must download simulink coder, matlab coder packages to generate code.
I am currently trying to use Simscape to design and simulate the electrical circuit and COMSOL Multiphysics to simulate the electromagnetic interaction between coils. What I'm not certain of is whether or not we can successfully link the two software packages nicely via MATLAB or not. They both have MATLAB support though.
I am also researching whether ANSYS suite. There may be some software we can use that would take the place of one or both of the previous software.
Several years ago I had to make a connection between COMSOL and Matlab as well. This is called a Matlab Comsol LiveLink.
However, I think (not sure), that the electrical circuit should be modeled in COMSOL. Using the LiveLink you can set parameters in COMSOL using Matlab and extract the updated calculation. To my knowledge you cannot input a model, do calculations, and then extract the results.
You can look in the users guide, maybe it says something about this
Some other links which may be useful:
LiveLink™ for MATLAB®
Integrate COMSOL Multiphysics® with
MATLAB® Scripting
Is there any way I could program the Matlab/Simulink to be able to automatically generate circuits on its own? I am using PLECS blockset (Piece-wise Linear Electrical Circuit Simulation ) embedded in Simulink.
For example, I need to have hundreds of identical block in a single .mdl file, instead of inserting one by one by myself by calling the block which I previously saved in Simulink library, is it possible that Simulink can be programmed to automatically generate hundreds of blocks by itself?
The only way I was told is by "using vectorization for most components. Most components are vectorized if they have a vectorized input signal or if one of their parameter is specified as a vector." However, I could not find any further information/details, appreciate if anyone of you could give opinion on this?
I just want to know if this is possible? Else, I would have to try another approach?
Thanks!
edited on 10 July 2013: Further to my question, I have confirmed with Plexim that there isn't such features ( add_block and add_line) in Plecs (Piece-wise Linear Electrical Circuit Simulation), does anyone know if there is any way I could automate the Plecs model? Appreciate any suggestion...Thanks
You can probably use functions like add_block and add_line to automate the creation of your Simulink model from a library.
I have a large simulink model with many source and sink blocks, many with only elementary arithmetic operations in between. I have been asked to document the equations behind the model. I am currently doing this manually and I am finding it rather slow and there is a relatively high chance of errors in the process.
Is there any way for Simulink to generate the equations (in MATLAB syntax for example) automatically?
There is no utility in MATLAB/Simulink that can do exactly what you are looking for (and I personally don't know of any third-party tools that can do this, either).
However, I think that your best bet might be to make use of Simulink Coder. This will allow you to convert your Simulink model to C code. From that code, you may be able to extract the equivalent equations more easily than you can by analyzing the Simulink model by hand.
The catch, though, is that Simulink Coder is an add-on package to base Simulink, so you may or may not have this tool available to you.
I tried with GPUmat, but the neural network toolbox from mathworks does´t support it. Otherwise I must change the nn-toolbox by myself. But it´s too hard for me. Any suggestion for me?
I don't know whether this will accelerate the Neural Network Toolbox in particular, but the Mathworks now offers CUDA GPU support via the Parallel Computing Toolbox:
http://www.mathworks.com/discovery/matlab-gpu.html?s_cid=HP_MI_tech_gpu
Matlab provides its own toolbox for training neural networks on GPU, see here.
As an author, I also advice to use my toolbox ConvNet, that uses kernels of Alex Krizhevsky's library cuda-convnet2. It also has pure CPU and Matlab versions, that work identically. There is also another toolbox for Matlab, called MatConvNet, but I have not checked it.