How can I communicate from Arduino to MATLAB

Question

I want to use sensors on an Arduino to control values in a MATLAB program. What are my options for communicating?

I've used Processing to receive data sent via the serial cable, and that strategy has worked pretty well. Is there something similar I can do using MATLAB? I'm somewhat new to MATLAB, so gentle guidance would be great.

I'm not really looking for something like the ArduinoIO package -- I want to have separate computation executing on the Arduino and occasionally informing my MATLAB program (which will occasionally poll the serial line, I suppose).

Answer 1

MATLAB Support Package for Arduino (aka ArduinoIO Package) allows you to do it fairly easily.

Sample usage:

%-- connect to the board

a = arduino('COM9')

%-- specify pin mode

a.pinMode(4,'input');

a.pinMode(13,'output');

%-- digital i/o

a.digitalRead(4) % read pin 4

a.digitalWrite(13,0) % write 0 to pin 13

%-- analog i/o

a.analogRead(5) % read analog pin 5

a.analogWrite(9, 155) % write 155 to analog pin 9

Answer 2

I don't know a whole lot about MATLAB, but I found some tutorials about reading and writing from the serial port:

s = serial('COM1');
fopen(s)
fprintf(s, 'Your serial data goes here')
out = fscanf(s)

out is now your received data, and you can do whatever you want with it.

To close:

fclose(s)
delete(s)
clear s

It is from Writing and Reading Data (MATLAB/ Data and File Management/ Serial Port Devices).

From your question I assume you know about the Arduino side of things (using Serial).

Answer 3

I've established a connection, sending numbers. By just changing Serial.write to Serial.print and fread to fscanf you can send/receive clear ASCII text instead of binary data.

Both matlab and arduino code can be found at this question:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24368670/matlab-plot-serial-data-continously

Answer 4

clc clear all global value global value1 global val5 global val6 global val7 global val8 global val9 a=arduino('COM4'); value = zeros(); value1 = zeros(); val5 = zeros(); val6 = zeros(); val7 = zeros(); val8 = zeros(); val9 = zeros(); for i=1:1000

val1(i)=analogRead(a,0)/2; %incomming

val2(i)=analogRead(a,1)/2; %heater

val3(i)=analogRead(a,2)/2; %heat sink

val4(i)=analogRead(a,5)/2; %atmsphr

val8(i)=analogRead(a,6)/2; %pressure

val9(i)=analogRead(a,7)/2; %pressure

val(i)=analogRead(a,0)/2;

value(i)= (val1(i)+val4(i)+val3(i))/3;

value1(i) =(val8(i)-val9(i)); %pressure

val5(i)=analogRead(a,0)/2 %incoming

val6(i)=analogRead(a,4)/2 %outgoing

val7(i) = value(i)-val6(i) plot(value, 'r'); title('heat sink temprature');

hold on

plot(val5, 'k');

title('incoming air temprature');
plot(val6, 'g');

title('outgoing air temprature');

 plot(val4, 'k');
 title('atmospheric temperature');

plot(val7,  'c');
title('change in temprature');

pause(6)

figure
plot(value1,  'r');
title('change in pressure'); 

pause(6)

end