Simulink example ideas

I am putting together a workshop on Simulink. I expect that most of the attendees will be sophomore undergrads or older. I expect that most of the attendees will be in a bachelor's program for electrical or mechanical engineering or computer science.

I need to think of good example problems to solve during the workshop. These are problems that I will present and solve in Simulink in front of the audience. I 开发者_开发技巧will also provide a .zip afterwards containing problem statements and solutions. What types of problems should I use? I have a few ideas already:

• PID controller for cruise control (appeal to EEs)
• Spring/damper system (appeal to MEs)
• Solar incidence calculator for rotating bodies in low-earth orbit, integrate into SolidWorks for thermal analysis (appeal to MEs)

Particularly, I don't know what I can show that will appeal to a CS major. Also, I would like to minimize the number of examples by starting with something simple and progressing rapidly into advanced territory (i.e. simple and advanced examples welcome).

Interesting CS major to Simulink will indeed be more difficult. Some ideas:

• State machine (Stateflow),
• Code generation,
• Integration of legacy C code into a S-function,

They can be include in one of your other example.

First of all, it sounds like a very interesting workshop, and good luck! I agree with Clement that a problem using Stateflow would probably appeal to CS majors. You could model something like a transmission using Stateflow.

Another approach for CS majors might be investigating how the various optimizations in Simulink affect the generated C code. Check out the documentation for the optimizations for some examples, you could use block reduction, signal storage reuse, loop threshold, etc.