Graphical Programming with MapleSim in Vector Mechanics to Structures 2D

At the present time before constructing or starting to develop a mechanical structures project it is necessary to model it using graphic programming; In this opportunity and used MapleSim as a computational tool belonging to the company Maplesoft. The modern approach to modeling and simulation makes the fabrication of complex designs easy to solve. We will cover some examples taken from the engineering being implemented in Maplesim with insertion of physical objects; To be seen in real time through video output; Then integrates with Maple to analyze the equations and data through the static and dynamic behavior of the fabricated. Solved methods of physical block components include functionality for many domains: rotational and translational mechanics, multi-body dynamics, logic, and structural blocks; With techniques like: Drag-and-Drop Physical Modeling Environment and Create Custom Components Directly From Their Equations, thus the systems that would take hours or days to build from equations; In principle they can be created in a fraction of time using MapleSim, so it can incorporate significantly more complex graphical algorithms. In MapleSim, I use the revolutionary multibody technology that perfectly combines advanced multi-domain modeling tools to provide all the functionality you need in one environment.

FAST_UNT_2017.pdf

Lenin Araujo Castillo

Ambassador Maple - Perú

Hi everyone,

I need to assign the output of the timer block to a variable which is then will be used in a trapeziod signal to add a time offset. Please see the visual below.

Thanks for your time,

Canberk

Hello guys..

I am a master student and I am interested in modelling of six dof industrial robots. in this study, ı firtsly import autocad model into Maplesim and add revolute jont between each  two link. I want to coriolisis matrix from the model with inertia matriix . I wait your helping and thanks for your interest   

What shall I do to install Maple 15 and MapleSym 5 in a Windos 10 environment.

I find the procedure in Maplesoft site up to Windows 8.

May I follow it for Windows 10.

Thank you for any help. Kind regards

Hi,

I get an error when I try to create a modelica block including a piecewise function with one of its expressions including csgn function.

similarly when I use the piecewise And for its conditions.

are these not supported in Modelica?

Hi everyone,

I need some help with the following error,

How can i solve this problem?

Thanks for your time

Best regards,

Canberk

Hi,

Ive been trying to use the global optimization toolbox to optimize a model I extract from the maplesim environment.
It works fine with the regular Optimization toolbox. but when I run the optimization on the Global toolbox I get this error:

Warning, Error at t=0.0000000000000000e+000: index-1 and derivative evaluation failure

to explain a little,
I use the getCompiledProc command to turn the maplesim model into a module to be used in maple.

pjf

I  encountered a non-integrable integral in the process of solving the following process, . How to achieve its numerical solution? Such as in a looping   code：

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pa[i] := pa[i-1]-(Int(subs(t = tau, Lpa[i-1]+Na1[i-1]-Na2[i-1]), tau = 0 .. t)); 

pw[i] := pw[i-1]-(Int(subs(t = tau, Lpw[i-1]+Nw1[i-1]-Nw2[i-1]), tau = 0 .. t)); u[i] := u[i-1]-(Int(subs(t = tau, Lu[i-1]+Nu1[i-1]+Nu2[i-1]), tau = 0 .. t))；

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Detailed code see annexBC2.mw

This MaplePrimes guest blog post is from Dr. James Smith, an Assistant Lecturer in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of York University’s Lassonde School of Engineering. His team has been working with Maplesim to improve the design of assistive devices.

As we go through our everyday lives, we rarely give much thought to the complex motions and movements our bodies go through on a regular basis. Motions and movements that seem so simple on the surface require more strength and coordination to execute than we realize. And these are made far more difficult as we age or when our health is in decline. So what can be done to assist us with these functions?

In recent years, my research team and I have been working on developing more practical and streamlined devices to assist humans with everyday movements, such as standing and sitting. Our objective was to determine if energy could be regenerated in prosthetic devices during these movements, similar to the way in which hybrid electric vehicles recover waste heat from braking and convert it into useable energy.

People use – and potentially generate – more energy than they realize in carrying out common, everyday movements. Our research for this project focused on the leg joints, and investigated which of the three joints (ankle, knee or hip) was able to regenerate the most energy throughout a sitting or standing motion. We were confident that determining this would lead to the development of more efficient locomotive devices for people suffering from diseases or disabilities affecting the muscles around these joints.

In order to identify the point at which regenerative power is at its peak, we determined that MapleSim was the best tool to help us gather the desired data. We took biomechanical data from actual human trials and applied them to a robotic model that mimics human movements when transitioning between sitting and standing positions. We created models to measure unique movements and energy consumption at each joint throughout the identified movements to determine where the greatest regeneration occurred.

To successfully carry out our research, it was essential that we were able to model the complex chemical reactions that occur within the battery needed to power the assistive device. It is a challenge finding this feature in many engineering software programs and MapleSim’s battery modeling library saved our team a great deal of time and effort during the process, as we were able to use an existing MapleSim model and simply make adjustments to fit our project.

Using MapleSim, we developed a simplified model of the human leg with a foot firmly planted on the ground, followed by a more complex model with a realistic human foot that could be raised off the ground. The first model was used to create a simplified model-based motion controller that was then applied to the second model. The human trials we conducted produced the necessary data for input into a multi-domain MapleSim model that was used to accurately simulate the necessary motions to properly analyze battery autonomy.

The findings that resulted from our research have useful and substantial applications for prostheses and orthoses designs. If one is able to determine the most efficient battery autonomy, operation of these assistive devices can be prolonged, and smaller, lighter batteries can be used to power them. Ultimately, our simulations and the resulting data create the possibility of more efficient devices that can reduce joint loads during standing to sitting processes, and vice versa.

Hello every one,

I'm using Maple to create a compiled program of my model Maplesim. I had a error with "getcompiledProc" command, which is :

Error, (in GetCompiledProc) non-numeric initial condition for `Main.RAB.value`(t): Float(undefined)

the "Main.RAB.value(t)" represent a probe used to visualize an output of my system.

Does anybody had a such error ?
Thank you for your responses.

Larbi ANIBA

Hi I was wondering if theres a way to smoothen a signal in maplesim.
I was trying to create a simple moving average but it doesnt seem to be able to create a feed back loop?
Much appreciate any help, or if there are other ways within maplesim to do it.

thanks
pjf

Hi, 

 I use Maple/MapleSim 2016. I have a question about how to save compiled modules as an one set. (Picture below describes my question.)

I use the Maple command "GetCompiledProc" to obtain the compiled module of MapleSim Model. And then, in some cases, I need to make a lot of compiled modules by using one MapleSim model.

(Usually, I make different compiled modules which contain different parameters to others)

For the convenience of using different compiled modules, I want to make these contained in one set whose name is "ModelSet". ("Case1 -> Case2" in the picture)

I tried this, but it did not work. Please see the attached (simple) model and the Maple worksheet in that model.

[TS]CompiledMoule_Practice.msim

For example, I want to use Model1(Compiled module 1) by loading that module from the ModelSet[1]. (Similarly, Model2 by loading ModelSet[2].)

However, when I load one of them, it is not the compiled module, but just a "symbol". It does not work as a compiled module any more.

Is there any way to make the "ModelSet" as I want? In fact, I tried to make the type of ModelSet as vector, list, and set, but all of them did not work. 

I appreciate any idea you may have.

Hi,

I was playing around with the example "Simple Inverse Kinematic Problem" and found somethings to be odd:

the angular motion seems to be calculated from between pi and negative pi and this has some effects when using position block to move a joint.

the original angular displacement is graph below

the angular displacement after ik calculations have been performed:

if you run the simulation it seems to copy and mirror the input pendulum, however if you disable one of the IK solutions you see that infact its motion isn't like the input.

this becomes more prevailant when you use a position block to force rotation on a joint instead of using the 'prescribed rotation' blocks that comes with the example.

My question then:
why does this happen?
how do I work around this?

the importance that the motion is follow precisely becomes more prevailent when we want to extract other values such as vel, accel, torque. they are incorrect and very jumpy. Also simply put the angular displacement is wrong, how do I fix it?

(side note: I'm thinking  it has to do with the way arctan is calculated in maple limits it to stay in range -pi to pi
"For real arguments x, y, the two-argument function arctan(y, x), computes the principal value of the argument of the complex number x+Iy, so −π < arctan(y,x) ≤ π." from https://www.maplesoft.com/support/help/Maple/view.aspx?path=invtrig)

pjf

Hi, after installing Maple 2015 I installed Maplesim 2015 but the following error comes up when trying to run Maplesim:

Java Virtual Machine Launcher

Could not find the main class:

com.maplesoft.application.Launcher. Program will exit

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Hi, so I am a newbie with simulation on maplesim. I've made a simulation of the lower part of a humanoid robot and I attempt to input angles to the joints from an excel file.

However, after adding my file .xls to the data set and linking it to a time lookup table, I get this error:

Havent installed any add-ins, I am working with excel 2007, Maplesim 6.4 and Maple 18.

Any insight on the problem would be of great help.

Thank you