Simulink communication to Raspberry USB port

I would know if it exits a way to let communicate Simulink to a device connected to the USB port of Raspberry Pi?

Answer 1

[Mischa Kim]

Hello Salvatore, yes there is. Check out: http://www.mathworks.de/hardware-support/raspberry-pi.html. You need the Support Package which you can download directly from the web site, or, if you have a recent release, from within MATLAB.

[Salvatore Mazzarino]

I have already known that it exists hardware support for raspberry in simulink. I have asked you something of more specific. Does it exist a block that let communicate to the usb port of raspberry ?

[Mischa Kim]

Absolutely. For reference, check out the video on the web site I provided the link to (it gets interesting at around 6:25). The simple demo includes a web cam (USB) to capture video. Does that help?

[Bethmage Perera]

Hi Mischa,

I got a similar issue where I want to connect a sensor to the usb port of the pi. This is a serial device and I already got a different serial device connected to the pi via its TXD and RXD pins so I am using a serial to USB converter to plug the sensor to the usb port. Can you help?

Thanks Kalpa

Answer 2

[Murat Belge]

It depends on what you attach to the USB port. For example, if you attach a USB Webcam, the Raspberry Pi registers it as a V4L2 video capture device and you can use the V4L2 Video Capture block to acquire images from the device. Since the USB port is a host port, you can only communicate with slave devices attached to this port. You will not be, for example, able to connect a USB cable between your host computer and the Raspberry Pi and communicate with your host computer from the R-Pi.

If you provide more information on your use case, I can provide a more detailed answer.

[Bethmage Perera]

Hi Murat, I am facing this same problem but I want to connect a range finder sensor via the raspberry pi usb port. can you help me figure out a way I can get the signal from the sensor via the port?

Thanks Kalpa

[vcmorini]

I am also interested Bethmage Perera

[Beyda TASAR]

Hi, I have got the same problem. I want to connect an EMG sensor via the raspberry pi USB port. Did you solve this problem? Could you help me?