Major Toolboxes in MATLAB

Y.Tyagi

What are toolboxes

MATLAB has a family of add-on application
specific solutions called toolboxes. You can use these toolboxes to learn and apply specialized technology. Toolboxes are comprehensive collections of MATLAB functions (M-files) that extend the MATLAB environment to solve particular classes of problems.
Examples

toolboxes for signal processing, control systems,

neural networks, fuzzy logic, wavelets, simulation, and many other areas.

Facts about Toolboxes

All toolboxes are built using MATLAB.

Every toolbox builds on the robust numerics, rock-solid

accuracy, and years of experience in MATLAB. You get seamless and immediate integration with Simulink Since all toolboxes are written in MATLAB code, you can take advantage of MATLAB's open-system approach. You can inspect M-files, add to them, or use them for templates when creating your own functions. Every toolbox is available on any computer platform that runs MATLAB.

Before you Start: use ver command to see installed toolboxes on your system

Communications Toolbox in MATLAB

You can use this toolbox for creating algorithms for
commercial or defense systems, such as mobile handsets and base stations, wired and wireless local area networks. You can also use it in research and education for communication systems engineering. Functions for designing the physical layer of communications links,
including source coding, channel coding, interleaving, modulation, channel models, and equalization. communications signals

Plots such as eye diagrams and constellations for visualizing Graphical user interface (bertool)
5

Control System Toolbox

The Control System Toolbox has many functions designed for
control engineering. Complex arithmetic, eigenvalues, root-finding, matrix inversion, and fast Fourier transforms.

This toolbox has number of algorithms that implements

common control system design, analysis, and modeling techniques. Convenient graphical user interfaces (GUIs) simplify typical control engineering tasks.

Curve Fitting Toolbox

This toolbox provides Data preprocessing such as sectioning and smoothing Data Fitting Parametric and nonparametric, polynomials, exponentials, rationals, sums of Gaussians and custom equations For nonparametric fit using a smoothing spline or various interpolants. Standard linear least squares, nonlinear least squares, weighted least squares, constrained least squares, Fit statistics to assist you in determining the goodness of fit with analysis capabilities such as extrapolation, differentiation, and integration It has a graphical environment that allows you to explore and analyze data sets and fits visually and numerically. You can explore the Curve Fitting Tool by typing cftool
9

10

Data Acquisition Toolbox

With this toolbox you can bring live, measured data
into MATLAB using PC-compatible, plug-in data acquisition hardware analog input , analog output and digital I/O .

Support for many popular hardware vendors/devices:

like Advantech boards, Keithley boards, National Instruments boards. You can also use the Data Acquisition Toolbox Adaptor Kit to interface unsupported hardware devices to the toolbox. Event-driven acquisitions
11

12

Database Toolbox
The Database Toolbox move data MATLAB and popular relational databases. With the Database Toolbox, you can bring data from an existing database into MATLAB, use any of the MATLAB computational and analytic tools, and store the results back in the database or in another database. For example, a financial analyst working on a mutual fund could import a company's financial data into MATLAB, run selected analyses, and store the results for future tracking and then export result back in database.
13

Instrument Control Toolbox

Communicate with instruments that support the GPIB interface (IEEE488), the VISA standard. Support for networked instruments using the TCP/IP and UDP protocols.

It has functions for transferring data between MATLAB and instrument. Simulink blocks for sending and receiving live data binary (numerical)
or text between instruments and Simulink models. Graphical user interface for identifying, configuring, and communicating with instruments information to a text file

Event-based communication Functions for recording data and event

14

15

Symbolic Math Toolboxes You can do symbolic computation into the numeric environment of MATLAB. Calculus (Differentiation, integration, limits, summation). Linear Algebra Determinants, eigenvalues, singular value decomposition Differential equations Fourier, Laplace, z-transform, and corresponding inverse transforms

16

Image Acquisition Toolbox

Image acquisition from many types of image
acquisition devices like frame grabbers cards to USBbased Webcams.

Viewing a preview of the live video stream. Triggering acquisitions (includes external hardware
triggers) Configuring callback functions that execute when certain events occur.

You can get image data into the MATLAB

workspace.
17

The Image Processing Toolbox

The toolbox supports a wide range of
image processing operations, including Spatial image transformations Morphological operations Neighborhood and block operations Linear filtering and filter design Transforms Image analysis and enhancement Image registration Deblurring Region of interest operations
18

The Fuzzy Logic Toolbox.

GUI-based tools for designing, simulating,
and analyzing fuzzy inference systems. Fuzzy logic provides an easily understandable, yet powerful way to map an input space to an output space with arbitrary complexity, with rules and relationships specified in natural language. Systems can be simulated in MATLAB or incorporated into a Simulink block diagram, with the ability to generate code for stand-alone execution. 19

Neural Networks toolbox in Matlab

You can Design and simulate neural networks. The toolbox consists of a set of functions and structures that handle neural networks, so we do not need to write code for all activation functions, training algorithms, etc. that we want to use! Neural networks are invaluable for applications where formal analysis would be difficult or impossible, such as pattern recognition and nonlinear system identification and control.

20

Neural Networks toolbox in Matlab Cont.

Features in Toolbox Command line function as well as GUI for creating, training, and simulating neural networks. Quick start wizards for fitting, pattern recognition, and clustering. Support for the most commonly used supervised and

unsupervised network architectures.

Comprehensive set of training and learning functions. Simulink blocks for building neural networks and advanced

blocks for control systems applications.

21

Application of Neural Networks

Pattern Recognition Trend prediction

Character recognition
Clustering data (grouping data by similarity ) Image Processing ex. Recognizing face
Typical application of neural network are in area of image
evaluation, machine vision, robotics, etc And many more
processing,, speech compression, banking, credit application

22

23

Thank you
24