Week 1:

I spent the first part of this week getting familiar with Simulink. I was given two systems (electrical and mechanical). My first tasks were to:

• create a mathematical model

• use Simulink to model the systems

The second part of this week I was given three tasks for the DC Generator project.

• Identify Matlab parameter values
  

• Find the relationship between Matlab parameters given by the flux equations to the Park's transform parameters
• Solve for physical machine parameters

So far I have finished the first two tasks given and will start on the last task this coming week.

Week 2:

I spent the beginning of this week finishing the DC generator tasks. I used one of the preset parameters in Simulink to find L_q and L_d and the rest of the Park's transformation parameters. I spent the rest of this week learning bond graphs and how to model systems with bond graphs. I modeled the electrical and mechanical systems from the first week with bond graphs and then from these bond graphs I derived the mathematical models for the state variables.

Week 3:

I spent this week working on my power point presentation and started to get familiar with GME and FACT. To do this I read the documentation on FACT and did the tutorials for GME. I also had a meeting at the beginning of the week which gave me an introduction to FACT.

Week 4:

This week I spent using the bond graph models I created for the mechanical and electrical systems and using the HBGtoSimulink interpreter in FACT to create a Simulink model of the systems. From this I verified that the output of the Simulink model generated from FACT is equivalent to the Simulink models generated from the mathematical models. I also spent some time finishing the paper and working on my presentation for Tuesday.