Pid control on Abaqus model

[Mohammed Nagy]

Hello all,

I've built an abaqus finite element model of a soft pneumatic actuator. Now I want to control it with a pid control from matlab? Does anyone know have any idea how the .m file will be written or any similar examples to look at?

 

[schopenhauer]

You may want to write the entire input file in Matlab, and control the variables from there (in fact, this can be done in any programming language).

The easiest way is to create a similar input file with Abaqus/CAE, and generate only the changing code in Matlab/Python.

Hope this helps.

 

[FEA way]

In Abaqus you could use UAMP (Standard) or VUAMP (Explicit) subroutine for that.

Check the article "Finite element-based software-in-the-loop for offline post-processing and real-time simulations" by A. Oveisi et al.