During this lesson, your platform is accessed. If you use other platforms than VEOS, you have to consider the following note that is relevant for dSPACE real-time hardware.
To avoid risk of injury and/or property damage, you must read and understand the safety precautions. Refer to General Warning.
This lesson describes how to perform the example task for implementing a test by specifying the related control flow. For more information, refer to Example Task for Implementing Tests.
The following preconditions must be met:
If you want to access dSPACE real-time hardware, it must be installed and connected to your host PC. For more information, refer to the hardware-specific Installation and Configuration Guide.
If you want to access VEOS, the VEOS kernel must be installed and running on your host PC or a connected PC. For more information, refer to the Introduction and Overview.
You must know how the connection to your real-time hardware or VEOS is parameterized. For example, for a TCP/IP connection, you must know the IP address and the port number.
The AutomationDesk demo projects must be available in your Documents folder. They are usually copied to the Documents folder the first time you start AutomationDesk. The copied demo projects include the simulation application used in this lesson.
You must know how to create and edit AutomationDesk projects and how to edit, parameterize and execute automation sequences and blocks (refer to the previous lessons in this tutorial).
In this lesson, you will learn how to access your simulation platform to read and write variables.
You will register your platform.
You will load the demo simulation application to a platform and start it.
You will write and read variable values of this running simulation application.
You will capture variable values for a specified duration.
You will add plots of the capture result to the report on the sequence execution.
All the steps are described in detail for VEOS, but generally you can follow this lesson for any dSPACE real-time hardware.
Working through this lesson will take you about 45 minutes.
To check the results, refer to Results of Lesson 7. This topic also provides information on executing the demo project without a connected platform.
This lesson is independent of the previous work.
At this point in the tutorial, you access a platform for the first time. Thus, consider the following general warning before you start with the first step.
You can start with the first step, refer to Step 1: How to Register Your Platform.