INTRODUCTION TO

MATLAB

MATrix LABoratory
1970s
DR. CLEVE MOLER
University of New Mexico

COMMERCIALIZATION
1980s
MathWorks

MATLAB
High performance numerical computation

Visualization

Interactive environment

Academics & Industry

MATLAB
Graphics
Computations
External Interface

MATLAB Toolboxes
Signal Processing
Statistics
Control Systems
Neural Networks
Communications
Image Processing
Optimization

MATLAB Powerful
Software
Symbolic Algebra
(x + y)^2 = x^2 + 2xy +y^2

MATLAB is a Computer Algebra System

MATLAB Windows
Main Window

Command Window

For writing
commands
Shows the simulation
results

Workspace

Stores Variables

Command History

Shows history of
commands used

Editor Window

M-File

Coding/Program

Model Window(Simulink)

Model file

Circuit

MATLAB

M-File Programming
Simulink

M-file programming
Basic Operations
1. X = 2^3/(4)
X= 2
2. X = 2^3/(4) ;
3. exp(3)
ans = 20.0855
4. log(2)
ans = 0.6931

Basic Operations
5. sin(pi/6)
ans = 0.5
6. sind(30)
ans = 0.5
7. x = (1+3i) / (1-3i)
x = -0.8 + 0.6i

Vectors and Matrices

1. A = [1 2 3]
A=123
2. B = [1 2 3
4 5 6]
B=123
456
3. C = [1 2 3;4 5 6]
C=123
456

Vectors and Matrices

4. A = 2 * B;
5.

x = [1 2 3 4 5];
y = [1 2 3 4 5];
z = x.*y
z = 1 4 9 16 25

6. x = [1 2 3 4 5];
x
ans = 1
2
3
4
5

Vectors and Matrices

7. x = [1 2 3 4 5];
y = [1 2 3 4 5];
z = x*y
z = 55
8. a = [0 30 45 60 90];
b = sind(a)
b = 0 0.5000 0.7071 0.8660 1.0000

Vectors and Matrices

9. x = 1:5
x=12345
10. x = 1:0.5:5
x = 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0
11.

x = linspace(1,10,10)
x = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

12. x = linspace(2,10,5)
x = 2 4 6 8 10

Vectors and Matrices

13. A = zeros(2)
A= 0 0
0 0
14. B = eye(2)
B= 1 0
0 1
15. C = ones(2)
C= 1 1
1 1

Graphs and Plots

M-File for drawing Circle with radius = 2 untis

theta = linspace(0,360,100);
X = 2*cosd(theta);
Y = 2*sind(theta);
plot(X,Y);
xlabel(x-axis);
ylabel(y-axis);
title(Circle);

Graph of Circle with radius = 2 units

Plot as a function of Stem

theta = linspace(0,360,50);
x = sind(theta);
stem(x);

x = linspace(1,10,5);
bar(x)

Plot as a function of Bar

Simulink
Simulink Library Browser

Toolboxes

Building Blocks

Using the Simulink

Using Simple blocks Blocks

Output of Constant block = 2

Output of Gain block = 10

Using Sum Block

Function generation

Frequency = 50 Hz
Frequency(rad/sec)=2*pi*f

Absolute Value Block

Sine Wave

Rectified Sine Wave

(Only Positive Value)

Derivative of a Function

Sine Wave

Cosine Wave
(Derivative of Sine Wave)

Detecting Positive and Negative Region

Sine Wave

Output = 1 for
Positive region

Output = -1 for
Negative region

Simple Electrical Circuit

Current measurement block

Voltage
measurement
block

AC Supply

Resistive Load

Simple Electrical Circuit

..(Contd.)

Supply Voltage
Waveform

Load Current
Waveform

Thank You