Matlab Installation

Note

DQ Robotics Matlab is adequate if you want to test your ideas fast while having convenient visualization tools, provided you have access to the Mathworks software.

Note

DQ Robotics Matlab is distributed as a LGPLV3 licensed package. Matlab, however, is not free software and other third-party toolboxes may also not be free.

Note

Had any issues? Report them at the Matlab-Issue-Tracker.

Installation

Assuming that you already have Matlab installed on you computer, download the most recent Matlab toolbox of DQ Robotics here.

After downloading the file dqrobotics-YY-MM.mltbx, where YY-MM stands for the year and month of release, just open it and Matlab should copy the files to the folder Toolboxes/dqrobotics-YY-MM in your $HOME folder and appropriately set the Matlab path.

To test if the toolbox was installed correctly, just go to the prompt and type

>> DQ
ans =
  0

If you receive an error instead, it means that the toolbox was not properly installed and you should open an issue here.

Development branch

Those wanting the results of our latest developments can checkout the master branch of the Matlab repository. In order to use DQ Robotics on your MATLAB installation, and supposing you did the checkout at [PATH_TO_DQ_ROBOTICS_FOLDER], just add

[PATH_TO_DQ_ROBOTICS_FOLDER]/matlab/

and subfolders to your MATLAB path.

Note however, that the development branch is unstable and should not be used in production environments.

Type help DQ or doc DQ to see the embedded documentation and all available functions.