For the top model, the Allowed unit systems configuration parameter determines the unit systems the model can use. For each of the plant and controller subsystems, a Unit System Configuration block determines the allowed unit systems.

In the plant subsystem, on the Signal Attributes tab of each Inport block dialog box, set the Unit parameter to a value appropriate for the connected physical signal.

To display units on ports and signals in the model, on the Debug tab, select Information Overlays > Port Units.

In the plant subsystem, you see units on the Inport blocks and connected signals.

Navigate back to the top model. To compile the model, press Ctrl+D, which also performs unit consistency checking.

The model displays a warning to indicate that there is a disallowed unit for the throttle angle signal. Clicking the warning icon displays a link to a Model Advisor report that gives you more detail.

The model also displays the warning at the bottom of the model editing window.

In the plant subsystem, you specified a unit of deg (degrees) for the throttle angle signal. However, the warning message indicates that degrees are not in the SI unit system. As determined by the Allowed unit systems configuration parameter, SI is the only unit system that the top model currently allows. To resolve this warning, you have two options:

In this case, a unit of deg for the throttle angle signal is appropriate. Instead, to resolve the warning, expand the set of allowed unit systems for the top model. Set the Allowed unit systems configuration parameter of the top model to all. To recompile the model, press Ctrl+D.

The top model no longer displays warnings.

Now that you have introduced units to the plant and successfully resolved unit inconsistency problems, you can add units to the controller. In the Fuel Rate Controller subsystem, set the Unit parameter of the fuel_rate Outport block to kg/s (kilograms per second).

Navigate back to the top model. To recompile it, press Ctrl+D.

The top model now shows a warning for mismatched units between the controller and plant. To resolve this error, you can:

Both options convert units in the same way. A situation in which you might disallow automatic conversions and insert conversion blocks instead is when you are integrating many components in a large system model. In that case, manually inserting conversion blocks can give you an added degree of control of unit conversions in the model. Also, with a conversion block, you can control the data type of the converted signal. This is useful, for instance, when you are modeling for fixed-point precision.

In this case, to enable Simulink^® to resolve the unit mismatch automatically, select Allow automatic unit conversions. To recompile the model, press Ctrl+D.

Simulink automatically converts units between the controller and the plant. An automatic conversion icon replaces the warning.

The top model includes a Simulink.Bus object named EngSensors that passes various sensor signals as a composite signal to the controller. To use the Type Editor to add units to individual elements of the bus object, on the Modeling tab, under Design, click Type Editor. Then, specify the units in the interactive table.

For the EngSensors bus object, set the Unit parameter of each element.

To recompile the model, press Ctrl+D.

The model shows units on the individual elements of the bus object.

You can also see the units in the interface view of your model. On the Modeling tab, under Design, click Model Interface.

The airflow_calc block of the controller subsystem displays units on the individual elements of the bus object, both at the component interface and within the component.

After you introduce units incrementally and resolve inconsistency and mismatch issues, you can simulate the model.

For the fuel signal that is connected to the scope, the plot window displays the associated units of kg/s as a y-axis label.