{"id":7402,"date":"2018-04-19T12:55:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T17:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/?p=7402"},"modified":"2020-03-26T11:52:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T16:52:53","slug":"matlab-online-matlab-mobile-matlab-drive-and-simulink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/2018\/04\/19\/matlab-online-matlab-mobile-matlab-drive-and-simulink\/","title":{"rendered":"MATLAB Online, MATLAB Mobile, MATLAB Drive… and Simulink"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have never written about these topics on this blog because this is not specific to Simulink, but... I am a big fan of MATLAB Online<\/a> and MATLAB Drive<\/a>. Today I will describe how I use these and highlight what you can do with them.<\/p>\n

MATLAB Drive<\/strong><\/p>\n

In case you did not know: If you have a MathWorks account<\/a>, you have access to MATLAB Drive<\/a>!<\/p>\n

How do you access it? Let's begin with the method I use the most: MATLAB Drive Connector<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can install MATLAB Drive Connector from this link<\/a>. Once this is done, you will see a MATLAB Drive Connector icon in the taskbar, and clicking on it will allow you, for example, to see file activity and quickly navigate to your MATLAB Drive folder.<\/p>\n

Note: I am using on Windows, but this is also available for Mac and Linux.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"MATLAB<\/p>\n

Another option is to access MATLAB Drive through a web browser<\/a>, where you will be able to upload and download files:<\/p>\n

\"MATLAB<\/p>\n

I recommend looking at MATLAB Drive help<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n

MATLAB Online<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another feature that works in combination with MATLAB Drive is MATLAB Online<\/a>, which is also included with most license types<\/a>. With MATLAB Online, your \"working directory\" is MATLAB Drive.<\/p>\n

MATLAB Online offers limited support for Simulink. You cannot edit models, but you can simulate them as mentioned here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"MATLAB<\/p>\n

MATLAB Mobile<\/strong><\/p>\n

MATLAB Mobile<\/a> is another way to run MATLAB and simulate models. If you are not using it already, you can get it from Google Play<\/a> or Apple App Store<\/a> righ now.<\/p>\n

Here is a screenshot of my iPad simulating a model:<\/p>\n

\"MATLAB<\/p>\n

Advantages<\/strong><\/p>\n

One obvious advantage of simulating models using MATLAB Online or MATLAB Mobile is that the computation is done online. This keeps your computer CPU available to do something else.<\/p>\n

Another feature I really like is that your session is continuous. You can connect and disconnect interchangeably between MATLAB Online and MATLAB Mobile and the same session continues. This means I can start a simulation from MATLAB Online at work, disconnect and check on it later from MATLAB Mobile.<\/p>\n

The last thing I want to highlight is that you can publish a script as HTML or PDF and share the address with anybody, even if they do not have a MathWorks Account.<\/p>\n

\"Publishing<\/p>\n

You can see the results of my simulation above by visiting this link:<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is what it looks like:<\/p>\n

\"Published<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Now it's your turn<\/strong><\/p>\n

Are you using MATLAB Online, MATLAB Mobile or MATLAB Drive? Let us know how in the comment below.<\/p>\n

One final thought... If you enjoy running simulations online instead of on your computer, I also recommend looking into the options for Parallel Computing on the Cloud<\/a>. This will allow you to scale up and run tons of simulations in the cloud at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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I have never written about these topics on this blog because this is not specific to Simulink, but... I am a big fan of MATLAB Online and MATLAB Drive. Today I will describe how I use these and... read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[595,143,10,16],"tags":[532,528,530,526],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7402"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7442,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions\/7442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}