Simbody  3.5
SimTK::CompliantContactSubsystem Class Reference

This is a force subsystem that implements a compliant contact model to respond to Contact objects as detected by a ContactTrackerSubsystem. More...

+ Inheritance diagram for SimTK::CompliantContactSubsystem:

Public Member Functions

 CompliantContactSubsystem ()
 Default constructor creates an empty handle. More...
 
 CompliantContactSubsystem (MultibodySystem &, const ContactTrackerSubsystem &)
 Add a new CompliantContactSubsystem to the indicated MultibodySystem, specifying the ContactTrackerSubsystem that we will use to obtain the list of ActiveContacts from which we will generate compliant forces. More...
 
Real getTransitionVelocity () const
 Get the transition velocity (vt) of the friction model. More...
 
void setTransitionVelocity (Real vt)
 Set the transition velocity (vt) of the friction model. More...
 
Real getOOTransitionVelocity () const
 Get a precalculated 1/vt to avoid expensive runtime divisions. More...
 
void setTrackDissipatedEnergy (bool shouldTrack)
 Specify whether to track energy dissipated by contacts. More...
 
bool getTrackDissipatedEnergy () const
 Obtain the current setting of the "track dissipated energy" flag. More...
 
int getNumContactForces (const State &state) const
 Determine how many of the active Contacts are currently generating contact forces. More...
 
const ContactForcegetContactForce (const State &state, int n) const
 For each active Contact, get a reference to the most recently calculated force there; the ContactId that produced this force is available from the referenced ContactForce object. More...
 
const ContactForcegetContactForceById (const State &state, ContactId id) const
 Get a reference to the ContactForce currently being produced by a particular ContactId; if that Contact is not currently producing forces then a reference to an invalid ContactForce is returned (you can check with isValid()). More...
 
bool calcContactPatchDetailsById (const State &state, ContactId id, ContactPatch &patch) const
 Calculate detailed information about a particular active contact patch, including deformed geometric information, pressure and friction force distribution, and resultant forces and moments. More...
 
Real getDissipatedEnergy (const State &state) const
 Obtain the total amount of energy dissipated by all the contact responses that were generated by this subsystem since some arbitrary starting point. More...
 
void setDissipatedEnergy (State &state, Real energy) const
 Set the accumulated dissipated energy to an arbitrary value. More...
 
void adoptForceGenerator (ContactForceGenerator *generator)
 Attach a new generator to this subsystem as the responder to be used when we see the kind of Contact type for which this generator is defined, replacing the previous generator for this Contact type if there was one. More...
 
void adoptDefaultForceGenerator (ContactForceGenerator *generator)
 Attach a new generator to this subsystem as the responder to be used when we see a Contact type for which no suitable generator has been defined, replacing the previous default generator type if there was one. More...
 
bool hasForceGenerator (ContactTypeId contact) const
 Return true if this subsystem has a force generator registered that can respond to this kind of Contact. More...
 
bool hasDefaultForceGenerator () const
 Return true if this subsystem has a force generator registered that can be used for response to an unrecognized type of Contact (typically this will be a "do nothing" or "throw an error" generator. More...
 
const ContactForceGeneratorgetContactForceGenerator (ContactTypeId contact) const
 Return the force generator to be used for a Contact of the indicated type. More...
 
const ContactForceGeneratorgetDefaultForceGenerator () const
 Return the force generator to be used for a Contact type for which no suitable force generator has been registered. More...
 
const ContactTrackerSubsystemgetContactTrackerSubsystem () const
 Get a read-only reference to the ContactTrackerSubsystem associated with this CompliantContactSubsystem. More...
 
const MultibodySystemgetMultibodySystem () const
 Every Subsystem is owned by a System; a CompliantContactSubsystem expects to be owned by a MultibodySystem. More...
 
- Public Member Functions inherited from SimTK::ForceSubsystem
 ForceSubsystem ()
 
 SimTK_PIMPL_DOWNCAST (ForceSubsystem, Subsystem)
 
GutsupdRep ()
 
const GutsgetRep () const
 
- Public Member Functions inherited from SimTK::Subsystem
 Subsystem ()
 Default constructor creates and empty handle with a null Subsystem::Guts pointer. More...
 
 Subsystem (const Subsystem &)
 Copy constructor clones the Subsystem::Guts object if there is one and makes this the owner handle of the new clone. More...
 
Subsystemoperator= (const Subsystem &)
 Copy assignment deletes the Subsystem::Guts object if there is one and then behaves like the copy constructor. More...
 
 ~Subsystem ()
 Destructor deletes the referenced Subsystem::Guts object if this is the owner handle of that object, otherwise does nothing. More...
 
QIndex allocateQ (State &s, const Vector &qInit) const
 
UIndex allocateU (State &s, const Vector &uInit) const
 
ZIndex allocateZ (State &s, const Vector &zInit) const
 
DiscreteVariableIndex allocateDiscreteVariable (State &s, Stage g, AbstractValue *v) const
 
DiscreteVariableIndex allocateAutoUpdateDiscreteVariable (State &s, Stage invalidates, AbstractValue *v, Stage updateDependsOn) const
 
CacheEntryIndex allocateCacheEntry (const State &s, Stage dependsOn, Stage computedBy, AbstractValue *v) const
 
CacheEntryIndex allocateCacheEntry (const State &state, Stage g, AbstractValue *v) const
 
CacheEntryIndex allocateLazyCacheEntry (const State &state, Stage earliest, AbstractValue *v) const
 
QErrIndex allocateQErr (const State &s, int nqerr) const
 
UErrIndex allocateUErr (const State &s, int nuerr) const
 
UDotErrIndex allocateUDotErr (const State &s, int nudoterr) const
 
EventTriggerByStageIndex allocateEventTriggersByStage (const State &s, Stage g, int ntriggers) const
 
const VectorgetQ (const State &s) const
 
const VectorgetU (const State &s) const
 
const VectorgetZ (const State &s) const
 
const VectorgetUWeights (const State &s) const
 
const VectorgetZWeights (const State &s) const
 
VectorupdQ (State &s) const
 
VectorupdU (State &s) const
 
VectorupdZ (State &s) const
 
const VectorgetQDot (const State &s) const
 
const VectorgetUDot (const State &s) const
 
const VectorgetZDot (const State &s) const
 
const VectorgetQDotDot (const State &s) const
 
VectorupdQDot (const State &s) const
 
VectorupdUDot (const State &s) const
 
VectorupdZDot (const State &s) const
 
VectorupdQDotDot (const State &s) const
 
const VectorgetQErr (const State &s) const
 
const VectorgetUErr (const State &s) const
 
const VectorgetQErrWeights (const State &s) const
 
const VectorgetUErrWeights (const State &s) const
 
const VectorgetUDotErr (const State &s) const
 
const VectorgetMultipliers (const State &s) const
 
const VectorgetEventTriggersByStage (const State &s, Stage g) const
 
VectorupdQErr (const State &s) const
 
VectorupdUErr (const State &s) const
 
VectorupdUDotErr (const State &s) const
 
VectorupdMultipliers (const State &s) const
 
VectorupdEventTriggersByStage (const State &s, Stage g) const
 
SystemQIndex getQStart (const State &s) const
 
int getNQ (const State &s) const
 
SystemUIndex getUStart (const State &s) const
 
int getNU (const State &s) const
 
SystemZIndex getZStart (const State &s) const
 
int getNZ (const State &s) const
 
SystemQErrIndex getQErrStart (const State &s) const
 
int getNQErr (const State &s) const
 
SystemUErrIndex getUErrStart (const State &s) const
 
int getNUErr (const State &s) const
 
SystemUDotErrIndex getUDotErrStart (const State &s) const
 
int getNUDotErr (const State &s) const
 
SystemMultiplierIndex getMultipliersStart (const State &s) const
 
int getNMultipliers (const State &s) const
 
SystemEventTriggerByStageIndex getEventTriggerStartByStage (const State &s, Stage g) const
 
int getNEventTriggersByStage (const State &s, Stage g) const
 
void setQ (State &s, const Vector &q) const
 
void setU (State &s, const Vector &u) const
 
void setZ (State &s, const Vector &z) const
 
Stage getStage (const State &s) const
 
void advanceToStage (const State &s, Stage g) const
 
const AbstractValuegetDiscreteVariable (const State &s, DiscreteVariableIndex index) const
 
AbstractValueupdDiscreteVariable (State &s, DiscreteVariableIndex index) const
 
const AbstractValuegetCacheEntry (const State &s, CacheEntryIndex index) const
 
AbstractValueupdCacheEntry (const State &s, CacheEntryIndex index) const
 
Real getDiscreteVarLastUpdateTime (const State &s, DiscreteVariableIndex dx) const
 
CacheEntryIndex getDiscreteVarUpdateIndex (const State &s, DiscreteVariableIndex dx) const
 
const AbstractValuegetDiscreteVarUpdateValue (const State &s, DiscreteVariableIndex dx) const
 
AbstractValueupdDiscreteVarUpdateValue (const State &s, DiscreteVariableIndex dx) const
 
bool isDiscreteVarUpdateValueRealized (const State &s, DiscreteVariableIndex dx) const
 
void markDiscreteVarUpdateValueRealized (const State &s, DiscreteVariableIndex dx) const
 
bool isCacheValueRealized (const State &s, CacheEntryIndex cx) const
 
void markCacheValueRealized (const State &s, CacheEntryIndex cx) const
 
void markCacheValueNotRealized (const State &s, CacheEntryIndex cx) const
 
const StringgetName () const
 Obtain the Subsystem name if one was given on construction of the concrete Subsystem. More...
 
const StringgetVersion () const
 Obtain the Subsystem version string if one was given on construction. More...
 
bool isInSystem () const
 Return true if this Subsystem is contained in a System. More...
 
bool isInSameSystem (const Subsystem &otherSubsystem) const
 Return true if this Subsystem is contained in the same System as contains the given otherSubsystem. More...
 
const SystemgetSystem () const
 Return a const reference to the System that contains this Subsystem. More...
 
SystemupdSystem ()
 Return a writable reference to the System that contains this Subsystem. More...
 
void setSystem (System &system, SubsystemIndex subx)
 Inform this Subsystem of the System that contains it, as well as the SubsystemIndex which the System has assigned to it. More...
 
SubsystemIndex getMySubsystemIndex () const
 Return the SubsystemIndex within the containing System. More...
 
bool isEmptyHandle () const
 Return true if this handle has a null Subsystem::Guts pointer. More...
 
bool isSameSubsystem (const Subsystem &otherSubsystem) const
 Determine if this Subsystem handle refers to the same Subsystem::Guts object as handle otherSubsystem. More...
 
bool isOwnerHandle () const
 Is this Subsystem handle the owner of the Subsystem::Guts object it points to? This is true if the handle is empty or if its Guts object points back to this handle. More...
 
bool subsystemTopologyHasBeenRealized () const
 Returns true if this Subsystem's realizeTopology() method has been called since the last topological change or call to invalidateSubsystemTopologyCache(). More...
 
void invalidateSubsystemTopologyCache () const
 Always call this method when a topological change is made to this Subsystem to indicate that any Stage::Topology cache values may need recomputation. More...
 
MeasureIndex adoptMeasure (AbstractMeasure &)
 Obtain the Subsystem name if one was given on construction of the concrete Subsystem. More...
 
AbstractMeasure getMeasure (MeasureIndex) const
 Obtain the Subsystem name if one was given on construction of the concrete Subsystem. More...
 
template<class T >
Measure_< T > getMeasure_ (MeasureIndex mx) const
 Obtain the Subsystem name if one was given on construction of the concrete Subsystem. More...
 
const Subsystem::GutsgetSubsystemGuts () const
 Obtain the Subsystem name if one was given on construction of the concrete Subsystem. More...
 
Subsystem::GutsupdSubsystemGuts ()
 Obtain the Subsystem name if one was given on construction of the concrete Subsystem. More...
 
void adoptSubsystemGuts (Subsystem::Guts *g)
 Obtain the Subsystem name if one was given on construction of the concrete Subsystem. More...
 
 Subsystem (Subsystem::Guts *g)
 Obtain the Subsystem name if one was given on construction of the concrete Subsystem. More...
 
bool hasGuts () const
 Obtain the Subsystem name if one was given on construction of the concrete Subsystem. More...
 

Detailed Description

This is a force subsystem that implements a compliant contact model to respond to Contact objects as detected by a ContactTrackerSubsystem.

The subsystem contains an extendable collection of ContactForceGenerator objects, one per type of Contact. For example, a point contact would be handled by a different force generator than would a mesh contact.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

SimTK::CompliantContactSubsystem::CompliantContactSubsystem ( )
inline

Default constructor creates an empty handle.

SimTK::CompliantContactSubsystem::CompliantContactSubsystem ( MultibodySystem ,
const ContactTrackerSubsystem  
)

Add a new CompliantContactSubsystem to the indicated MultibodySystem, specifying the ContactTrackerSubsystem that we will use to obtain the list of ActiveContacts from which we will generate compliant forces.

The MultibodySystem takes over ownership of the new subsystem object, but the handle we construct here retains a reference to it.

Member Function Documentation

Real SimTK::CompliantContactSubsystem::getTransitionVelocity ( ) const

Get the transition velocity (vt) of the friction model.

void SimTK::CompliantContactSubsystem::setTransitionVelocity ( Real  vt)

Set the transition velocity (vt) of the friction model.

Real SimTK::CompliantContactSubsystem::getOOTransitionVelocity ( ) const

Get a precalculated 1/vt to avoid expensive runtime divisions.

void SimTK::CompliantContactSubsystem::setTrackDissipatedEnergy ( bool  shouldTrack)

Specify whether to track energy dissipated by contacts.

This permits conservation of energy tests to be performed in the presence of dissipative contact elements. If you enable this, a state variable (z) will be allocated to integrate instantaneous dissipated power. By default energy dissipation is not tracked and an exception is thrown if it is requested. This is a topological change, meaning you'll have to call realizeTopology() and get a new State if you change the setting.

See also
getDissipatedEnergy(),setDissipatedEnergy(),getTrackDissipatedEnergy()
bool SimTK::CompliantContactSubsystem::getTrackDissipatedEnergy ( ) const

Obtain the current setting of the "track dissipated energy" flag.

You must not call getDissipatedEnergy() or setDissipatedEnergy() if this flag has not been set.

See also
getDissipatedEnergy(),setDissipatedEnergy(),setTrackDissipatedEnergy()
int SimTK::CompliantContactSubsystem::getNumContactForces ( const State state) const

Determine how many of the active Contacts are currently generating contact forces.

You can call this at Velocity stage or later; the contact forces will be realized first if necessary before we report how many there are.

const ContactForce& SimTK::CompliantContactSubsystem::getContactForce ( const State state,
int  n 
) const

For each active Contact, get a reference to the most recently calculated force there; the ContactId that produced this force is available from the referenced ContactForce object.

The ContactForce object is measured and expressed in the Ground frame. You can request this response at Velocity stage or later; the contact forces will be realized first if necessary.

See also
getContactForceById()
const ContactForce& SimTK::CompliantContactSubsystem::getContactForceById ( const State state,
ContactId  id 
) const

Get a reference to the ContactForce currently being produced by a particular ContactId; if that Contact is not currently producing forces then a reference to an invalid ContactForce is returned (you can check with isValid()).

The ContactForce object is measured and expressed in the Ground frame. You can call this at Velocity stage or later; the contact forces (not just this one) will be realized first if necessary.

See also
getContactForce(), calcContactPatchDetailsById()
bool SimTK::CompliantContactSubsystem::calcContactPatchDetailsById ( const State state,
ContactId  id,
ContactPatch patch 
) const

Calculate detailed information about a particular active contact patch, including deformed geometric information, pressure and friction force distribution, and resultant forces and moments.

This detailed information is only calculated when requested because it may be expensive for some ContactForceGenerators; for simulation purposes only the resultants are needed. Resultant forces may be obtained cheaply by calling getContactForceById(); don't call this method unless you really need these details. The returned information will overwrite anything that is already in the supplied ContactPatch object; the contact point and vectors are expressed in Ground. You can call this operator at Velocity stage or higher. The result is calculated here and not saved internally.

Precondition
state realized to Stage::Velocity
Parameters
[in]stateThe state from whose active contacts we are selecting.
[in]idThe ContactId of the Contact whose patch details are to be returned. This refers to a Contact within the ContactTrackerSubsystem associated with this ContactForceSubsystem.
[out]patchThe object that will be overwritten with the result or set invalid if the given ContactId is not currently producing a patch. Results are returned in the Ground frame.
Returns
True if the indicated Contact is currently generating contact forces; false otherwise (in which case patch is also marked invalid).
See also
getContactForceById()
Real SimTK::CompliantContactSubsystem::getDissipatedEnergy ( const State state) const

Obtain the total amount of energy dissipated by all the contact responses that were generated by this subsystem since some arbitrary starting point.

This information is available only if you have requested tracking by calling setTrackDissipatedEnergy().

This is the time integral of all the power dissipated during any of the contacts by material dissipative and friction forces. For a system whose only non-conservative forces are contacts, the sum of potential, kinetic, and dissipated energies should be conserved with an exception noted below. This is particularly useful for debugging new ContactForceGenerators. This is a State variable so you can obtain its value any time after it is allocated.

Precondition
state realized to Stage::Model
Parameters
[in]stateThe State from which to obtain the current value of the dissipated energy.
Returns
The total dissipated energy (a nonnegative scalar).

An error message will be thrown if you call this method without having turned on energy tracking via setTrackDissipatedEnergy().

Note
The Hunt and Crossley dissipation model used by many contact force generators can occasionally detect that a body is being "yanked" out of a contact (this is more likely with very large dissipation coefficients). To track all the energy in that case we would have to allow the surfaces to stick together, which is unreasonable. Instead, some of the energy will be lost to unmodeled effects because the surface is unable to transfer energy back to the bodies and will instead vibrate or ring until the energy is dissipated.
See also
setTrackDissipatedEnergy(), setDissipatedEnergy()
void SimTK::CompliantContactSubsystem::setDissipatedEnergy ( State state,
Real  energy 
) const

Set the accumulated dissipated energy to an arbitrary value.

This is only permitted if you have requested tracking of dissipated energy by calling setTrackDissipatedEnergy().

Typically this method is used only to reset the dissipated energy to zero, but non-zero values can be useful if you are trying to match some existing data or continuing a simulation. This is a State variable so you can set its value any time after it is allocated.

Precondition
state realized to Stage::Model
Parameters
[in,out]stateThe State whose dissipated energy variable for this subsystem is to be modified.
[in]energyThe new value for the accumulated dissipated energy (must be a nonnegative scalar).

An error message will be thrown if you call this method without having turned on energy tracking via setTrackDissipatedEnergy().

See also
getDissipatedEnergy(), setTrackDissipatedEnergy()
void SimTK::CompliantContactSubsystem::adoptForceGenerator ( ContactForceGenerator generator)

Attach a new generator to this subsystem as the responder to be used when we see the kind of Contact type for which this generator is defined, replacing the previous generator for this Contact type if there was one.

The subsystem takes over ownership of the generator; don't delete it yourself.

void SimTK::CompliantContactSubsystem::adoptDefaultForceGenerator ( ContactForceGenerator generator)

Attach a new generator to this subsystem as the responder to be used when we see a Contact type for which no suitable generator has been defined, replacing the previous default generator type if there was one.

The subsystem takes over ownership of the generator; don't delete it yourself.

bool SimTK::CompliantContactSubsystem::hasForceGenerator ( ContactTypeId  contact) const

Return true if this subsystem has a force generator registered that can respond to this kind of Contact.

bool SimTK::CompliantContactSubsystem::hasDefaultForceGenerator ( ) const

Return true if this subsystem has a force generator registered that can be used for response to an unrecognized type of Contact (typically this will be a "do nothing" or "throw an error" generator.

const ContactForceGenerator& SimTK::CompliantContactSubsystem::getContactForceGenerator ( ContactTypeId  contact) const

Return the force generator to be used for a Contact of the indicated type.

If no generator was registered for this type of contact, this will be the default generator.

const ContactForceGenerator& SimTK::CompliantContactSubsystem::getDefaultForceGenerator ( ) const

Return the force generator to be used for a Contact type for which no suitable force generator has been registered.

const ContactTrackerSubsystem& SimTK::CompliantContactSubsystem::getContactTrackerSubsystem ( ) const

Get a read-only reference to the ContactTrackerSubsystem associated with this CompliantContactSubsystem.

This is the contact tracker that is maintaining the list of contacts for which this subsystem will be providing the response forces.

const MultibodySystem& SimTK::CompliantContactSubsystem::getMultibodySystem ( ) const

Every Subsystem is owned by a System; a CompliantContactSubsystem expects to be owned by a MultibodySystem.

This method returns a const reference to the containing MultibodySystem and will throw an exception if there is no containing System or it is not a MultibodySystem.


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