{"id":16710,"date":"2024-07-31T10:18:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T14:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/?p=16710"},"modified":"2024-08-01T12:47:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T16:47:15","slug":"shot-put-olympics-2024-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/2024\/07\/31\/shot-put-olympics-2024-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Shot Put – Olympics 2024 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the Paris Olympics going on, I decided to revisit <\/span>the simulation of the shot put event that we published in 2016<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/div>

Background<\/span><\/h2>
I recommend visiting <\/span>the 2016 blog post<\/span><\/a> for more background on how we put decided to simulate this Olympic event. In short, at the shot put event the athlete needs to throw a \"shot\", a round weight, a far as they can within a specific zone. This is typically done by first spinning to generate momentum and then unwind and push the weight.<\/span><\/div>
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To implement that in Simulink, we used a series of solids and joints from <\/span>Simscape Multibody<\/span><\/a>. Here is what it looks like in the <\/span>Mechanics Explorer<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/div>
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Let's see how I started with the <\/span>2016 model<\/span><\/a> and improved it using new features available in MATLAB R2024a.<\/span><\/div>

Upgrade Advisor<\/span><\/h2>
The first thing I did when opening the model from R2016 is to run the <\/span>Upgrade Advisor<\/span><\/a>. The Upgrade Advisor is a useful tool that can identify potential enhancements to a model to take advantage of new features. In this case, it flagged 3 items:<\/span><\/div>
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The Upgrade Advisor was able to automatically apply the following changes:<\/span><\/div>