MBS Symbolic Toolbox Alternative

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Tiago Carvalho 2022-6-13

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评论： Steven Lord 2022-6-13

Good Afternoon,

I am currently developing my Master Thesis project, which consists of developing a general-porpused multi-body simulation program. Currently, I have a good basis for the program that is able to solve the simulations that I ask of it.

However, I have been using the symbolic Toolbox to allow the user to define input functions that define the position,velocity and acceleration of the driving links. The functions are usual polynomial or sinusoidal and are defined in an excel, that serves as a GUI, as the following: '@(t) 6,28*t^2 (for example), and this is costing me a lot of computation effort, when I introduce a driving input the simulations are taking hours and using the profile I have identified that the definition of the variable sym t for my input functions is the one that consumes me the most computation time.

Does anyone has an alternative for the symbolic toolbox that is more effienct? I have already maxed out the efficiency in terms of numerical methods algorithms and there isn't much more I can do on that department.

Thank you for your attention.

Tiago Carvalho

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What operations do you need to do on these functions? If all you need to do is define and evaluate them, just define them as anonymous functions.

s = '@(x) x.^2+2*x-1';
f = str2func(s);
x = 1:10;
y1 = f(1:10)
y1 = 1×10
     2     7    14    23    34    47    62    79    98   119
y2 = x.^2+2*x-1 % Check that the output of f matches the explicit computations
y2 = 1×10
     2     7    14    23    34    47    62    79    98   119

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Tiago Carvalho 2022-6-13

Hello,

If the inputs are only defined as acceleration I can use anonymous functions and I think that can help! However, for a specific set of problems I will have to differentiate them and then evaluate them, I will try to simplify the Excel GUI and to force the user to input the first and second derivative of each function before the program runs which will allow me to do what you suggested.

Thank you a lot for your help!

Tiago