Matlab

Adriana Hera, Ph.D.

ahera @wpi.edu

- 2013-

Reference: Matlab documentation

MATLAB Course

1. Getting started; Matlab Help;

2. Variables;
3. Operators; 4. Matlab functions; 5. Matrices; 6. Scripts; 7. Basic plotting. 8. User Defined Functions 9. Importing Data

10. Simulink
11. Flow Control Commands
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Matlab - Plotting plot Sintax: plot(y); plot(x,y); plot(x,y,s)

The plot function has different forms, depending on the input arguments.
If y is a vector, plot(y) produces a piecewise linear graph of the elements of y versus the index of the elements of y. If you specify two vectors as arguments, plot(x,y) produces a graph of y versus x.
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Matlab - Plotting plot(x,y, s);

s
b g r c m y k blue green red cyan magenta yellow black

allows to plot : colors, symbols, different lines

. o x + * s d .

point circle x-mark plus star square diamond

: -. --

solid dotted dashdot dashed

(none) no line

plot (x,y,'c+:')

plots a cyan dotted line with a plus at each data point;

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Matlab - Plotting
clear t=0:0.01:10; % time seconds signalSin=sin(2*pi*t); % signal1 - frequency =1 Hz signalCos=0.5*cos(2*pi*t); % signal2 - frequency =1 Hz figure plot(t,signalSin); hold on plot(t,signalCos, '-*r'); xlabel('time'); ylabel('signal'); legend('Sin', 'Cos'); title('Two Signals','FontSize',12)

plot2signals.m

Other commands:

xlabel figure ylabel legend, title

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Matlab - Plotting
Two Signals
1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 Sin Cos

signal

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5 time

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Visualization - Interactive editing

show plot tools

Visualization - subplot
>> subplot(3,1,1)
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>> subplot(1,3,1)
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>> subplot(3,2,4) 1
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subplot(m,n,q) * breaks the figure into a m x n matrix of windows.

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q = the current window

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plot3Windows.m
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Visualization - subplot
clear; % clear the workspace close; % close previous figures
SignalSin 1

% Generate the signals

signal

t=0:0.02:10; % time seconds

signalSin=sin(2*pi*t); % signal1 - frequency =1 Hz

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signalCos=0.5*cos(2*pi*t); % signal2 - frequency =1 Hz

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 time(s) SignalCos 7 8 9 10

signal3=signalSin.*signalCos;

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signal

% Plot the signals figure; subplot(3,1,1) plot(t,signalSin,'-ok', 'MarkerSize',2);

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title('SignalSin')
0 1 2 3 5 6 time(s) Product of two signals 4 7 8 9 10

xlabel('time(s)');

ylabel('signal');

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signal

subplot(3,1,2) plot(t,signalCos, '-*g');

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title('SignalCos') xlabel('time(s)'); ylabel('signal');

subplot(3,1,3) plot(t,signal3); grid title('Product of two signals') xlabel('time(s)'); ylabel('signal');

plot3Windows.m

axis([0 10 -0.3 0.3]); % sintax: axis([XMIN XMAX YMIN YMAX])

1.1 Importing and Exporting Data

1.1.2 Supported File Formats

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1. Importing and Exporting Data

using the Import Wizard

save , load

dlmread , dlmwrite
xlsread, xlswrite fopen, , fscanf, fprintf

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1.1 Importing and Exporting Data

1.1.1 Using the Import Wizard with Text Data File Import Data or >> uiimport

1.1.2 Supported File Formats

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1.1 Importing & exporting data: dlmread & dlmwrite

dlmread , dlmwrite Read/Write ASCII delimited file.

prepareData.m

fileName
data=dlmread(myFile);

matrix to be saved

add at the end of existing file

dlmwrite(fileName, data,'delimiter', '\t', '-append'); dlmwrite(fileName, data, '\t')

Delimiter = tab

data=dlmread('dataCSV.csv', ',',2,0);
dlmread reads from the ASCII-delimited numeric data file filename to output matrix M. The delimiter separating data elements is inferred from the formatting of the file.
Comma (,) is the default delimiter.
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1.1 Importing & exporting data: dlmread & dlmwrite

dlmread , dlmwrite Read/Write ASCII delimited file.

for i=1:4 fileName=['results', num2str(i), '.csv'] data(i,:,:)=dlmread(fileName, ',',2,0); end

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1.1 Importing & exporting data: xlswrite, xlsread

xlswrite, xlsread - Write/Read Excel file.

xlswrite('filename', data) xlsread('filename')

To import Excel data by wizard (uiimport) the file should have the extension .xls

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Fourier Transform
MATLAB provides a collection of functions for computing and working with Fourier transforms.

Y = fft(X)
returns the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of vector X, computed with a fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm.

Example: open the file myFFT.m

Other related commands: fft(X,N) is the N-point FFT ifft, abs, angle, unwrap HT hilbert transform myHT.m
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Fourier Transform

Example: open the file myFFT.m

Other related commands: fft(X,N) is the N-point FFT ifft, abs, angle, unwrap HT hilbert transform myHT.m
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>> wintool

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