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TCP/IP Receive

Receive data over TCP/IP network from remote host

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Add-On Required: This feature requires the Simulink Support Package for Parrot Minidrones add-on.

  • TCP/IP Receive block

Libraries:
Simulink Support Package for Parrot Minidrones

Description

The TCP/IP Receive block receives data from a remote host over a Bluetooth® network. When you set Connection mode to Server, you must provide the Local IP port. The Local IP port acts as the listening port of the TCP/IP server. When you set Connection mode to Client, you must provide the Remote IP port of the server from which to receive the data.

The block has two output ports, Data and Status. At each sample time, the Data port outputs data as a vector of the size specified in the Data size (N) parameter. The Status port contains 0 or 1 to indicate whether the new data at the specified time step is received. The Status port value 1 indicates that the data from Data port is valid.

Parrot® minidrone is a little-endian device. The TCP/IP Receive block expects the byte order of the received TCP/IP data to be big-endian, and it converts the data to little-endian.

Note

In some cases, the antivirus or firewall software might block the TCP traffic. If so, configure the antivirus or firewall software to allow the traffic for a specific IP port number.

Examples

Communicating with a Parrot Minidrone Using TCP/IP and UDP

Communicating with a Parrot Minidrone Using TCP/IP and UDP

Use the TCP/IP and UDP communication blocks in the Simulink® Support Package for Parrot® Minidrones. The blocks are used to control the motor speed of the drone and visualize the accelerometer sensor data from the drone.

Ports

Output

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At each time step, the port outputs data as a vector of the size specified in the Data size (N) parameter.

Data Types: int8 | uint8 | int16 | uint16 | int32 | uint32 | single | double | Boolean

At each time step, when the length of data received is greater than or equal to the length specified in the Data size (N) parameter, the port outputs 1. Otherwise, it outputs 0, indicating that no new data is received.

Data Types: uint16

Parameters

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Main Tab

Set the block as TCP/IP server or client.

When you set this parameter to Server, you must provide a Local IP port. The local port acts as the listening port of the TCP/IP server.

When you set this parameter to Client, you must provide the Remote IP port of the TCP/IP server from which you want to receive the data.

This local port number acts as a listening port of the receiving host. Match the local port number with the remote port number of the sending host.

The IP address of the server from which the data is received. The Remote IP address is set at 192.168.3.2; do not change this IP address.

Dependencies

This parameter appears only when you set the Connection mode parameter to Client.

Specify port number of the server from which data is received.

Note

Do not use ports 24099 and 26061 for TCP/IP communication with Parrot minidrone as these ports are reserved.

Dependencies

This parameter appears only when you set the Connection mode parameter to Client.

Specify the type of data the block receives from the sending host. The size of each element depends on its data type.

The number of bytes to receive at each time step.

Enter the time interval at which to receive data.

When you set this parameter to -1, Simulink® determines the best sample time for the block based on the block context within the model.

Advanced Tab

Allow manual specification of local IP port at which to receive data. This parameter appears only when you set the Connection mode to Client.

Enter the local port of the client to receive data. This parameter appears only when you set the Connection mode to Client and select the check box Manually specify local IP port.

Receive TCP Data

This section explains the values at the output ports in non-blocking mode, with the following block parameters specified as:

Block ParameterValue
Data typeuint8
Data size (N)4

The values at the output ports vary depending on whether the length of data received is less than, greater than, or equal to the length of requested data.

  • Length of data received = Data size (N): The Data port outputs data as a vector of the size specified in the Data size (N) parameter. The Status port outputs 1, indicating that the requested data is received.

    Suppose that the length of the data received is 4. In this case, the Data port outputs a data vector of size 4 filled with the received data bytes. The Status port outputs 1.

  • Length of data received < Data size (N): In non-blocking mode, the block does not wait for the requested data to be available. The Data port outputs data as a vector of the size specified in the Data size (N) parameter filled with zeros. The Status port outputs 0, indicating that no new data is received.

  • Length of data received > Data size (N): The Data port outputs a data vector of the size specified in the Data size (N) parameter. The vector contains only the first N bytes from the data. The remaining bytes are emitted along with the data bytes in the next time step. The Status port outputs 1, indicating that the requested data is received.

    Suppose that the length of data received is 5 bytes. In this case, the Data port outputs a data vector of size 4. The vector contains only the first 4 bytes from the received data. The fifth byte is emitted along with the data bytes in the next time step. The Status port outputs 1.

Data LengthMode of Read OperationOutput Port
DataStatus
Length of data received = Data size (N)Non-blocking

1
Length of data received < Data size (N) Non-blocking

0
Length of data received > Data size (N)Non-blocking

1

Version History

Introduced in R2018a

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