Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB: Difference between revisions

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This is [[free software]] but requires the proprietary [[MATLAB]] environment in order to execute. A subset of functions have been ported to [[GNU Octave]].

The Toolbox forms the basis of the exercises in the textbooks.

<ref>{{cite book|last=CraigCorke|first=JohnPeter|year=2017 |title=IntroductionRobotics, toVision Robotics& Control (3rd2nd edition)|yearpublisher=2004Springer|publisherisbn=Prentice978-Hall3-319-54412-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Corke|first=Peter|title=Robotics, Vision & Control|year=2011|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-642-20143-1|url=http://www.petercorke.com/rvc}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Craig|first=John|title=Introduction to Robotics (3rd edition)|year=2004|publisher=Prentice-Hall}}</ref>

The Toolbox provides functions for manipulating and converting between datatypes such as: vectors;[[Transformation matrix|homogeneous transformations]]; [[roll-pitch-yaw]] and [[Euler angle|Euler]] angles and [[Quaternion|unit-quaternions]] which are necessary to represent 3-dimensional position and orientation.