Get Started with Stateflow

Model and simulate decision logic using state machines and flow charts

Stateflow^® provides a graphical language that includes state transition diagrams, flow charts, state transition tables, and truth tables. You can use Stateflow to describe how MATLAB^® algorithms and Simulink^® models react to input signals, events, and time-based conditions.

Stateflow enables you to design and develop supervisory control, task scheduling, fault management, communication protocols, user interfaces, and hybrid systems.

With Stateflow, you model combinatorial and sequential decision logic that can be simulated as a block within a Simulink model or executed as an object in MATLAB. Graphical animation enables you to analyze and debug your logic while it is executing. Edit-time and run-time checks ensure design consistency and completeness before implementation.

Tutorials

Model Finite State Machines

Model dynamic systems as finite state machines in Stateflow.

STEP 1: Construct and Run a Stateflow Chart
STEP 2: Define Chart Behavior by Using State Actions and Transition Labels
STEP 3: Create a Hierarchy to Manage System Complexity
STEP 4: Model Synchronous Subsystems by Using Parallel Decomposition
STEP 5: Synchronize Parallel States by Broadcasting Events
STEP 6: Monitor Chart Activity by Using Active State Data
STEP 7: Schedule Chart Actions by Using Temporal Logic

Interactive Learning

Stateflow Onramp
Free, self-paced, interactive Stateflow course

Videos

Getting Started with Stateflow
Build and simulate a Stateflow chart in a Simulink model

What Is Stateflow?
Design and simulate state charts by using Stateflow

MATLAB Tech Talks: State Machines
Learn the fundamental concepts of state machines