10.14. Summary

The chapter can be summarized in the following points:

• An introduction to Simulink environment and methods to start the Simulink are discussed.

• The different steps involved in creating a Simulink model i.e. collecting, modifying, labelling and connecting the blocks, are explained with illustrated figures.

• Solvers used for system simulation are described.

• Simulating a created model specifying the simulation parameters, viewing the response and using variables from MATLAB Workspace have been elaborated.

• Importing and exporting data from Workspace have been illustrated.

• Use of Simulink for obtaining response of non-linear systems having non-linearities such as saturation has been described.

• Obtaining state-space model from the Simulink model using linmod function is described.

• Creating sub-systems and masking of sub-systems using ‘Mask Editor’ are illustrated with an example.