getStateIndex

Get index of a state element of an operating point specification

Syntax

index = getStateIndex(op,name)

index = getStateIndex(op,name,element)

Description

The States property of an operating point specification is an array that contains trimming specifications for each model state. When defining a mapping function for customized trimming of Simulink^® models, you can use getStateIndex to obtain the index of a state specification based on the corresponding block path or state name.

When trimming Simulink models using optimization-based search, some applications require additional flexibility in defining the optimization search parameters. For such systems, you can specify custom constraints and a custom objective function. For complex models, you can define a mapping that selects a subset of the model states, inputs, and outputs to pass to the custom constraint and objective functions. For more information, see Compute Operating Points Using Custom Constraints and Objective Functions.

index = getStateIndex(op,name) returns the index of the state specification that corresponds to name in the States property of operating point specification op.

index = getStateIndex(op,name,element) returns the index of the specified element within a state specification for a block with multiple states.

Examples

Get State Index from Operating Point Specification

Open Simulink model.

mdl = 'scdindex1';
open_system(mdl)

Create an operating point specification for model.

opspec = operspec(mdl);

opspec contains an array of state specifications for the model.

opspec.States

ans = 

     x         Known    SteadyState     Min         Max        dxMin       dxMax   
___________ ___________ ___________ ___________ ___________ ___________ ___________
                                                                                   
(1.) scdindex1/system1
     0         false       true        -Inf         Inf        -Inf         Inf    
     0         false       true        -Inf         Inf        -Inf         Inf    
     0         false       true        -Inf         Inf        -Inf         Inf    
(2.) scdindex1/system2
     0         false       true        -Inf         Inf        -Inf         Inf    

Get the index of the state specification that corresponds to the system2 block.

index2 = getStateIndex(opspec,'scdindex1/system2')

index2 =

     2     1

index2(1) is the index of the state specification object for system2 in opspec.States. Since this block has a single state, index2 has a single row and index2(2) is 1.

If a block has multiple states, you can obtain the indices of all the states in the corresponding state specification.

index1 = getStateIndex(opspec,'scdindex1/system1')

index1 =

     1     1
     1     2
     1     3

Each row of index1 contains the index of one state in the system2 block. For each row, the first column contains the index of the state specification in opspec.States. The second column contains the index of each state element within the specification.

Get Index of Specified State Element of Operating Point Specification

Open Simulink model.

mdl = 'scdindex1';
open_system(mdl)

Create an operating point specification for the model.

opspec = operspec(mdl);

If a block has multiple states, you can obtain the index of a specific state within the corresponding state specification by specifying the element index. For example, get the index for the second state in the specification for the system1 block.

index1 = getStateIndex(opspec,'scdindex1/system1',2)

index1 =

     1     2

You can also obtain the indices of a subset of the block states by specifying the element index as a vector. For example, get the indices for the first and third states in the specification for the system1 block.

index2 = getStateIndex(opspec,'scdindex1/system1',[1 3])

index2 =

     1     1
     1     3

Get Index of Named State from Operating Point Specification

Open Simulink model.

mdl = 'scdindex2';
open_system(mdl)

The system1 block is a state-space system with three named states: position, velocity, and acceleration.

Create an operating point specification for the model.

opspec = operspec(mdl);

The States property of the operating point specification object contains one entry for each named state in system1.

opspec.States

ans = 

     x         Known    SteadyState     Min         Max        dxMin       dxMax   
___________ ___________ ___________ ___________ ___________ ___________ ___________
                                                                                   
(1.) position
     0         false       true        -Inf         Inf        -Inf         Inf    
(2.) velocity
     0         false       true        -Inf         Inf        -Inf         Inf    
(3.) acceleration
     0         false       true        -Inf         Inf        -Inf         Inf    

To obtain the index of a state specification that corresponds to a named state within a block, specify the state name.

index1 = getStateIndex(opspec,'velocity')

index1 =

     2     1

The first column of index1 contains the index of the corresponding state specification in the opspec.States property. The second column is 1 for a named state.

Get Index of Simscape State from Operating Point Specification

Open model.

mdl = 'scdTanks_simscape';
open_system(mdl)

Create an operating point specification for the model.

opspec = operspec(mdl);

The States property of the operating point specification object contains one state specification for each Simscape state in the model.

To obtain the index of a specification that corresponds to a Simscape state, specify the state name. For example, get the index of the pressure state of Tank3.

idx = getStateIndex(opspec,'scdTanks_simscape.Tank3.pressure')

idx =

    18     1

The first column of idx contains the index of the corresponding state specification in opspec.States. The second column is 1 for a Simscape state.

View the specification in opspec.States for this state.

opspec.States(idx(1))

ans = 

     x         Known    SteadyState     Min         Max        dxMin       dxMax   
___________ ___________ ___________ ___________ ___________ ___________ ___________
                                                                                   
(1.) scdTanks_simscape.Tank3.pressure
     0         false       true        -Inf         Inf        -Inf         Inf    

Input Arguments

op — Operating point specification or operating point

OperatingSpec object | OperatingPoint object | OperatingReport object

Operating point specification or operating point for a Simulink model, specified as an OperatingSpec, OperatingPoint, or OperatingReport object.

name — Block path or state name

character vector | string

Block path or state name that corresponds to a state specification in the States property of op, specified as a character vector or string that contains one of the following:

• Block path of a block in the Simulink model that contains unnamed states.

• Name of a named state in a Simulink or Simscape™ block.

To see all the states that have state specifications, view the States property of op.

op.States

element — State element index

positive integer | vector of positive integers

State element index, specified as a positive integer less than or equal to the number of state elements in the block or state specified by name, or a vector of such integers. By default, if you do not specify element, getStateIndex returns the indices of all elements in the selected state specification. For an example, see Get Index of Specified State Element of Operating Point Specification.

Output Arguments

index — State index

2-element row vector | 2-column array

State index, returned as a 2-element row vector when element is an integer, or a 2-column array when element is a vector. Each row of index contains the index for a single model state.

The first column of index contains the index of the corresponding state specification in the States property of op. The second column contains the element index within the state specification.

Using index, you can specify the state portion of a custom mapping for customized trimming of Simulink models. For more information, see the CustomMappingFcn property of operspec.

Version History

Introduced in R2017a