PLECS: XML-RPC Interface and Controller Design in Python

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The XML-RPC interface of PLECS Standalone allows you to send and receive data to and from PLECS Standalone using an external program. Many programming languages such as Python, Java, C++, or Ruby offer standard XML-RPC Libraries to set up an XML-RPC client. In this tutorial Python 3 is used to launch PLECS simulations and retrieve the simulation results to be post-processed. In this tutorial you will learn:

- how the XML-RPC interface is embedded into PLECS Standalone and the simulation workflow.
- how to design a simple current control scheme using the Python Control System Library.
- how to use the XML-RPC interface to interact with PLECS (starting a simulation and reading back data).

Please note that PLECS Blockset does not have a built-in XML-RPC interface.

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