Obtaining Sensor Information

Given the user-defined name for a sensor, utility routines can be used to obtain the sensor ID or the sensor value using a computationally efficient searching technique.

Utility routines IGETSENSORID and GETSENSORVALUE can be called only from Abaqus/Standard user subroutine UAMP. Utility routines IVGETSENSORID and VGETSENSORVALUE can be called only from Abaqus/Explicit user subroutine VUAMP.

This page discusses:

Utility Routine Interface
Variables to Be Provided to the Utility Routine
Variables Returned from the Utility Routine

Utility Routine Interface

     character*80 mySensorName
     ...

     iMySensorID =  IGETSENSORID(mySensorName, jSensorLookUpTable )
     iMySensorID = IVGETSENSORID(mySensorName, jSensorLookUpTable )
     dMySensorValue = sensorValues(iMySensorID)
     ...
     dMySensorValue =   GETSENSORVALUE(mySensorName, 
C                       jSensorLookUpTable, sensorValues )
     dMySensorValue =  VGETSENSORVALUE(mySensorName,  
C                      jSensorLookUpTable, sensorValues )
     ...

Variables to Be Provided to the Utility Routine

mySensorName: User-defined character string, uppercase, left justified.
jSensorLookUpTable: Pointer to an object containing a binary tree look up table for sensors. The calling user subroutine provides this variable.
sensorValues: Array containing the latest sensor values for all sensors in the model.

Variables Returned from the Utility Routine

iMySensorID: Index in the sensorValues array for this sensor name.
dMySensorValue: Sensor value for this sensor name.