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ParallelSimulationsUsingParfor:TestCaseSweep
ThisexampleshowshowyoucanrunmultipleSimulinksimulationscorrespondingtodifferenttestcasesinthe
SignalBuilderblock,inparallelbyusingtheParallelComputingToolbox.Thisinvolvesfivemainsteps:
1. StartMATLABworkersonyourmachine
2. Setupdatarequiredforthemultiplesimulations
3. Runmultiplesimulationsina parfor (parallel for )loop
4. Plotresultsofmultiplesimulations
5. CloseMATLABworkers
ModelOverview
Themodelsldemo_suspn_3dofshownbelowsimulatesthevehicledynamicsbasedontheroadsuspension
interactionfordifferentroadprofiles.Thevehicledynamicsarecapturedinthreedegreesoffreedom:vertical
displacement,roll,andpitch.TheroadprofiledatafortheleftandrighttiresisimportedintotheSignalBuilderblockas
differenttestcases.TheRoadSuspensionInteractionsubsystemcalculatesthesuspensionforcesonthevehicleat
thefourtirelocationsbasedontheroaddataandthecurrentvehiclestate.IntheBodyDynamicssubsystemthese
forcesandtheresultingpitchandrollmomentsareusedtodeterminethevehiclemotioninthreedegreesoffreedom:
verticaldisplacement,roll,andpitch.
Thesuspensionmodelissimulatedusingdifferentroadprofilestodetermineifthedesignmeetsdesiredperformance
goals.ParallelComputingToolboxisusedtospeedupthesemultiplesimulations,asillustratedbelow.

mdl='sldemo_suspn_3dof';
isModelOpen=bdIsLoaded(mdl);
open_system(mdl);

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Step1:StartMATLABWorkersonYourMachine
FirstconfigureandstartapoolofMATLABworkers.Usethe parpool commandtocheckifaparallelpoolisopen,
andthenopenalocalpoolonyourmulticoredesktop.ThisrequiresParallelComputingToolbox.

apool=gcp('nocreate');
ifisempty(apool)
apool=parpool;
end
Startingparallelpool(parpool)usingthe'local'profile...connectedto12
workers.
Step2:SetupDataRequiredfortheMultipleSimulations
DeterminethenumberofcasesintheSignalBuilderblockusingthesignalbuilderfunction.Thenumberofcasesis
usedtodeterminethenumberofiterationstoruninstep3.Thenumberofcasesisalsousedtopreallocateanarrayof
SimulationOutputobjectsintheSimulinkpackagethatwillbeusedtocollectthesimulationresultsinstep3.

[~,~,~,cases]=signalbuilder([mdl'/RoadProfiles']);
numCases=numel(cases);
simout(numCases)=Simulink.SimulationOutput;
Step3:RunMultipleSimulationsina parfor (Parallel for )Loop
RunmultiplesimulationscorrespondingtothedifferenttestcasesintheSignalBuilderblockwithina parfor loop.
The signalbuilder functionisusedagainherebutthistimetosettheactivesignalineachiteration.Thesim
commandreturnsallthesimulationdataasaSimulationOutputobjectoftheSimulinkpackage.Notethatthe
simulationresultsarecollectedinthesimoutvariable,whichwaspreallocatedinstep2.

parforidx=1:numCases
load_system(mdl);
signalbuilder([mdl'/RoadProfiles'],'activegroup',idx);
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simout(idx)=sim(mdl,'SimulationMode','normal');
end
Step4:PlotResultsofMultipleSimulations
Plottheverticalvehicledisplacementfromthedifferentsimulationstoseehowthevehicleperformedtothedifferent
roadprofiles.Usethe get methodoftheSimulationOutputobjecttoobtainthetimeseriescontainedineachelement
ofsimout.Thetimeandandsignaldataarecontainedwithinthetimeseriesobject.

legend_labels=cell(1,numCases);
fori=1:numCases
si=simout(i);
ts=si.get('logsout').get('vertical_disp').Values;
ts.plot;
legend_labels{i}=['Run'num2str(i)];
holdall
end
title('Responseofa3DoFSuspensionModel')
xlabel('Time(s)');
ylabel('Vehicleverticaldisplacement(m)');
legend(legend_labels,'Location','NorthEastOutside');

Step5:CloseMATLABWorkers
Last,closetheparallelpoolandthemodeliftheywerenotpreviouslyopened.
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if(~isModelOpen)
close_system(mdl,0);
end
delete(apool);
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