Questions tagged [matlab]
MATLAB is a high-level language and interactive programming environment for numerical computation and visualization developed by MathWorks.
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Joint space trajectory script unclear
I have a script provided by The MathWorks Inc. that makes a robot end-effector follow both a task space and a joint space trajectory through several waypoints. These trajectories are then plotted in ...
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Is the translational vector (positon) in transformation matrices in cm or another unit (MATLAB)?
My transformation matrix gives me, for example, x = 0.06, y = 0.27 and z = -0.04
It does not make a lot of sense to me if this is in cm.
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Matlab smooth transition between stored configurations (rigid body tree robot )
I currently have a few joint configurations stored for a robot model in Matlab. When I play back and show the robot in different configurations, there is of course no smooth, but abrupt transition. Is ...
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How to connect to a kinova gen3 arm in gazebo through MATLAB and ROS?
I want to simulate a kinova gen3 arm in Gazebo through MATLAB and ROS. I am using a windows laptop which is running MATLAB natively, and I am running ROS and Gazebo via a virtual machine. I have ...
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How can I input joint angles to transformation matrix to get position in matlab?
I am trying to get the forward kinematics for a robot model in matlab (rigid body tree).
I created a 4 x4 transformation matrix from the base to the end-effector using the gettransform() function. I ...
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Data gathering and selling [closed]
a friend of mine is building various Robots with different structures, sensors, limbs executing different tasks. He gathers data from all sensors etc regarding technical and scientific range of ...
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Retrieving Denavit-Hartenberg-Parameters from homogenous transformation-matrix
i am trying to implement a matlab script where the user can enter quaternions and retrieve the corresponding denavit hartenberg parameters for this link. My approach is to create the homogenous ...
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i want to model the variable distance between two moving vehicles
please i need to model the variable distance between two vehicles, below the code that i'm trying to do ,
The code
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Inverse Kinematics for a 4-DoF Leg
I am beginner in the robotics space and I am trying to apply inverse kinematics to robot leg that has 4 degrees of freedom. I do not know how to think about solving these problems, so any guidance ...
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How do industrial robots solve the inverse kinematic problem?
I want to make a real-time end-effector position control simulation of a 6 DOF robotic arm. To do so, I should solve the inverse kinematic problem, but due to the complexity of calculations, it is ...
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Inertial frame's angular velocity expression
I'm following a robotics course on coursera which talks about aerial robotics and more specifically quadrotors.
I'm trying to understand the logic behind the relationship between the angular velocity ...
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How to simulate a system output with a sine wave input?
I wish to simulate the output of a certain gear system I have. How the gear system looks isn't particularly important to the problem, I managed to get the differential equation needed from the ...
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How to solve this differential equation using ode23?
Hello! :) What I have here is a gear system I need to simulate using
MATLAB and Simulink.
To do that, firstly I need to get the differential equation for this
rotation (gear) system. I think I ...
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How do I compute the feedforward terms in a control law using Matlab?
I have the following situation. I have computed the linear and angular velocity which are the controls for a mobile robot, which have the form:
$v_d=v_{fb}+v_{ff}$
$\omega_d=\omega_{fb}+\omega_{ff}$
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How can I define the saturation function in Matlab?
I would like to write a Matlab code for an angular velocity of this type:
$\omega=\omega_{fb}+sat(\omega_{ff})$
where $\omega_{fb}$ is a feedback angular velocity and $\omega_{ff}$ is a feedforward ...
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how to find Singularity and jacobian Inverseof 5 DOF Robotic arm?
I am working on calculating the Jacobian Determinant to find the singularity of my 5 DOF Robotic arm, I have calculated the jacobian matrix, and the matrix I got is a very large value
As it is non ...
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Questions about time derivative of jacobian matrix
I find that in some robotic toolboxs(e.g. FROST https://ayonga.github.io/frost-dev/index.html) they use
to calculate time derivative of jacobian matrix.
Here is my guess about the reason of using ...
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Matlab code to take time derivatives
I have a velocity command, which is:
$v=k_1\rho cos(\alpha)$
where each quantity $\rho$ and $\alpha$ depend by the time.
I would like now to take the time derivative of this, in order to use it as ...
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How do I apply a disturbance observer to a mobile robot?
I have to design a observer to estimate disturbances which are applied to a unicycle model. So, the unicycle model with disturbances is:
$\dot{x}=v cos\theta + d_x$
$\dot{y}=v sin\theta + d_y$
$\dot{\...
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Problem designing acceleration inputs controller
I am reading this paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224635390_The_motion_control_problem_for_the_CyberCarpet
in which is implemented a cartesian regulator to bring the position $(x,y)$ ...
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How I Calculate the correct Joint Torques of Robotic arm in Simmechanics?
I have imported my Solidwork Robotic arm into Simmechanics successfully, now I want to calculate torque required for each joints at different conditions, I cant find the Torque, I have tried Total ...
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How do I call Matlab code into Simulink for doing a simulation for doing plots?
I have built a simulink model for performing cartesian regulation on a unicycle:
and plot the results with a Matlab code
but, I am not very confident with Simulink and so I don't know how to call ...
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error with dimensions in Simulink
I am trying to simulate a cartesian regulator for a unicycle with Simulink and I am having some problems.
My simulink model is the following:
and when I run it I get the following error message:
so ...
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Simulation of Robotic arm
I want to simulate my 5 DOF robotic arm, in such a way that the calculated Torque and mass values of each joints (Servos) defined to be tested that are they capable of physically bear all the weight ...
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Finding the right PD values for a quadcopter simulator
I am working on this short assignment where I have to find the right PD values for a simulated quadcopter. I have to reach 0.9 meters under 1 second with an overshoot of less than 5%. This is my ...
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Plotting a Robot in App Designer
I've a robot created with Peter Corke toolbox and I must plot it inside an app (must be in App Designer - Matlab). The problem is that everytime I try to plot it, it makes an independent figure ...
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How can I modeling a simple haptic interface system to obtain results similar to the paper “Time-Domain Passivity Control of Haptic Interfaces”?
I am trying to simulate the experiments in the paper "Time-Domain Passivity Control of Haptic Interfaces", Hanaford and Ryu, 2002, IEEE transactions on robotics and automation vol .18, No1 about the ...
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How to take prediction step in particle filter?
I am working on particle filter. I have studied it thoroughly, but stucked at one point during implementation. I have to implement it using MatLab. The issue is this that I am unable to implement the ...
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What should be the prediction step in particle filter?
I am implementing a particle filter using MATLAB. I am implementing it first time. I have written the system model and measurement model. Given below:
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Solving for rotation matrix: Aligning vector a with vector b and then rotating around vector b
Currently working on a quadcopter simulation. I have a desired thrust vector,
t =sin(30)cos(45)a1+sin(30)sin(45)a2+cos(30)a3
and desired yaw angle,
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How to communicate vrep with ESP8266 via wifi to send and receive data
I'm looking for some guidance on a project that I've been doing for quite a long time; the project is about a 4WD robotic platform for obstacle avoidance with haptic feedback. If you know about the ...
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Converting from Modified to Standard Denavit Hartenberg
This is probably a noob question.
But as of right now I am having difficulty converting from the Modified DH to a Standard DH parameters for the Franka Emika Panda. I need standard because it allows ...
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What is the best way to simulate a robotic arm?
I have been working on a senior design project. In this project, we designed a 4-DOF robot arm. Now, I want to do a simulation for this system. I guess I have to design controllers for the servo ...
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why cumtrapz integrator always return zero?
I have been trying to use cumtrapz function to integrate velocity at a given time interval to get the position. However, it keeps giving me zero position at the beginning and end of the iteration, ...
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Compensator design
I got a plant $G(s)=\left(0.13s+1\right)/s^2$ to design a compensator which provides below demands:
Settling time : max 2s
Overshoot : max %35
Gain margin : min 10 dB
Phase margin : min 30 deg
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Regarding kalman filter implementation
I think I might have originally posted this in the wrong stack exchange forum, link. I think this might be the right place, I am not sure if posting again is considered "bad style", I apologize if ...
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Finding transfer function from bode plot
I try to estimate a system transfer function by hand calculation from a bode plot data but I could not succeed yet and I need someone help.
it will be appreciated if anyone explains or refer me to a ...
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Need Suggestions for real-time number or object detection with Arduino + MATLAB? [closed]
I'm working on a line follower robot. its a kind of waiter robot. and i am facing problems in detecting customer table. can you guys please suggest me some ideas to detect customer table. i want to ...
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Roy Featherstone toolbox robot model
I want to model these D-H parameters in spatial toolbox:
Link: alpha, a, theta, d
Link 1 : -90 0 theta1* d1
Link 2 : 0 a2 ...
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3-DOF Robot Dynamics error in Robotics Toolbox
I am trying to compute dynamics of 3 DOF robot using Robotics Toolbox by executing this code:
robot.accel(q, zeros(1,3), zeros(1,3))
But I am getting this error: ...
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How do you control the end effector of a rigid body system using keyboard keys?
So in my lab, I am to create a rigid body tree robot that has an end effector that can be teleoperated by keyboard commands. I found a function called waitforbuttonpress that allowed me to give the ...
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Inverse Jacobian to find joint angles
I am trying to implement a joint space control with the UR5 in MATLAB/Simulink and have programmed the forward kinematics of the same.
Now, I want to find out the joint angles of the manipulator using ...
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Matlab Code for Lynx Robot
In this section, you will need to write a function lynx_fk which returns the positions of 10 points along the robot arm as defined later, given the joint angles of the robot.
For this question, ...
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Rotation at SerialLink.teach Robotic Toolbox
Im using robotic toolbox to simulate my robot, but i always confused when i see the value of rpy. It always different if i compare with tr2rpy and tr2eul. What kind of rotation used in SerialLink....
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Yaw drift when implementing AHRS filter fusion
I am using the Matlab AHRS filter fusion algorithm with an InvenSense ICM-20948 to determine object orientation. I seem to be obtaining reasonable results however I am getting what appears to be ...
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Line following robot mathematic model
I'm trying to improve the speed my line following robot. I have made this chassis designs. This is the main prototype I'm working on. Look at the following image.
I'm driving the robot with PID, and ...
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How to add some more feature for this simulink model
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Robotic hand simulation in MatLab?
After some motivation, I have tried to go inside Matlab Simulink and was able to do this :-
https://drive.google.com/open?id=...
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Esc calibration
I want to make a calibration setup for BLDC ESC in the simulink model. I'm using arduino mega (3,9,10,11 pins) and quatro 30Ax4 esc. Normally I can set it to it's max, min, and incrementally increase/...
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Get a signal from position array data
I'm working with position data from a hand sensor, and need to apply an FFT to it to get the level of tremor based on the frequency of the signal. I get two arrays, one with +1000 frames of position ...
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Robotic hand simulation in MatLab?
We are doing graduation project and require simulation of the robotic hand to be submitted. And we want to control various parameter in for movement for fingers of robotic hand. We tried it in other ...