getInputIndex

Get index of an input element of an operating point specification or operating point

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Syntax

index = getInputIndex(op,block)
index = getInputIndex(op,block,element)

Description

The Inputs property of an operating point specification is an array that contains trimming specifications for each model input. When defining a mapping function for customized trimming of Simulink® models, getInputIndex lets you obtain the index of an input specification based on the corresponding block path.

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.

example

index = getInputIndex(op,block) returns the index of the input specification that corresponds to block in the Inputs property of operating point specification op.

example

index = getInputIndex(op,block,element) returns the index of the specified element within an input specification for an input port that has a port width greater than 1.

Examples

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Open Script

Open Simulink model.

mdl = 'scdtmpSetpoints';
open_system(mdl)

Create an operating point specification object for the model.

opspec = operspec(mdl);

opspec contains specifications for the root-level input ports of the model.

opspec.Inputs

(1.) scdtmpSetpoints/Feed rpm
	 initial guess: 0            
(2.) scdtmpSetpoints/Setpoints
	 initial guess: 0            
	 initial guess: 0            
	 initial guess: 0            
	 initial guess: 0

Obtain the index of the specification in opspec.Inputs that corresponds to the Feed rpm input block.

index1 = getInputIndex(opspec,'scdtmpSetpoints/Feed rpm')

index1 =

     1     1

index1(1) is the index of the input specification object for the Feed rpm block in the opspec.Inputs. Since this input port is a scalar signal, index1 has one row and index1(2) is 1.

If an input port is a vector signal, you can obtain the indices for all of the elements in the corresponding input specification.

index2 = getInputIndex(opspec,'scdtmpSetpoints/Setpoints')

index2 =

     2     1
     2     2
     2     3
     2     4

Each row of index2 is the index for one element of the Setpoints input vector.

Open Script

Open Simulink model.

mdl = 'scdtmpSetpoints';
open_system(mdl)

Create an operating point specification object for the model.

opspec = operspec(mdl);

opspec contains specifications for the root-level input ports of the model.

Obtain the index of the element that corresponds to the second signal in the Setpoints input vector.

index1 = getInputIndex(opspec,'scdtmpSetpoints/Setpoints',2)

index1 =

     2     2

You can also obtain the indices of multiple vector elements at the same time. For example, get the indices for the first and third elements of the Setpoints vector.

index2 = getInputIndex(opspec,'scdtmpSetpoints/Setpoints',[1 3])

index2 =

     2     1
     2     3

Input Arguments

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Operating point specification or operating point for a Simulink model, specified as an operspec object or operating point object.

Block path that corresponds to an input specification in the Inputs property of op, specified as a character vector or string that contains the path of a root-level input of a Simulink model.

To see all the blocks that have input specifications, view the Inputs property of op.

op.Inputs

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

Output Arguments

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Input 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 input element.

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

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

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