Chapter 1.

How to use MATLAB

Assistant. Min yeong Choi

Division of Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Dongguk University – Seoul Campus
1st semester, 2024

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Time
• Mon. 10:30 – 12:00

Classroom
• 원흥관 318 ( 공용컴퓨터실 )

Course Assistant
• Min yeong Choi (010.4066.2453, himy01@dgu.ac.kr, Room No. 8134 )

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References:
• “ 제대로 배우는 MATLAB,” ( 방성완 , 한빛아카데미 , 2014)
• “The MathWorks, Inc - MATLAB Control System Toolbox Reference
(2018, The MathWorks, Inc)”

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1. Make a new “MathWorks” account

http://kr.mathworks.com

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1. Make a new “MathWorks” account

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2. Activate the “MathWorks” account

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2. Activate the “MathWorks” account

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3. Type “ID” and Password”

Type student’s personal

dongguk university e-mail
address
(********@dongguk.edu)

Type pass-
word

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4. Download the MATLAB program

Click

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4. Download the MATLAB program

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4. Download the MATLAB program

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5. Type the University e-mail address

Type student’s personal dongguk

university e-mail address
(********@dongguk.edu)

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6. Select the License type (Individual)

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7. Select the program (MATLAB & Simulink)

 Check List
 MATLAB

 Simulink

Scroll down
 Simscape
and check
 Simulink Electrical

 Simulink Control Design

 Statistics and Machine

Leaning Tools

 Symbolic Math Toolbox

 Control System Toolbox

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MATLAB:
• This is a semi-word of the MATrix LABoratory, a computing tool that receives the matrix as ba-
sic input data and performs the process.

• Numerical analysis program optimized for matrix processing compared to C or FORTRAN.

(Commands [MATLAB] ↔ Functions in C, Subroutines FORTRAN)

• Recently, Various tool-boxes (SIMULINK, Control SystemToolbox, Optimization Toolbox, ETC.) have been widely used
to solve various engineering problems.

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Current Folder Workspace

Command Window
(CW)

Window role
Current Folder Matlab displays the folder on which m-files are refer-
enced.
Command Window A window that receives user input.
Workspace To display information about variables.

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How to set up a path
• [ Home - Set Path(Environment) ]

• [Add Folder] → [Save]

• It is important to set a path to

the working directory.

Because the path must be

configured to run the file.

• If the path is set incorrectly,

CW can’t run the file.

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Editor(filename.m
)

Upper side Left side Undocking

• Editor can move wherever you want to place by using drag and drop.

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Editor(filename.m
)• Making a editior

• 1. HOME • 2. New Editor

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Command Window(CW) vs Editor(M-file)
• CW • Editor

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Command Window(CW) vs Editor(M-file)
• Caution
Suppose that you are using the editor.
Then, if your m-file is in the directory but it is not running,
Please check that you have properly defined your Set Path.

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who, whos
• It is difficult to remember all the variables and their values currently
in use.

• One of the best features of MATLAB is that all defined variables are
always stored in a workspace.

• who : you can see the variables stored in the workspace.

• whos : to see the of the variables in more detail.

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who, whos

• Size=length(row)length(column)
• Class: Type of variables (Float,
Double, integer, etc.)

Whos Who

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Clear, Save, Load
• Clear: It can remove variables that you do not need to have mem-
ory capacity (clear variablename)

• Save: It can store variables in a file format.

(save filename variablename)

• Load: It can be used if you want to reuse data created by other

programs or stored in previous tasks. (load “saved filename”)

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Clear, Save, Load

• save bowling: Workspace can be saved as

the file “bowling.mat” in your current file
path.
• clear: All variables have been deleted.

• who: It can view a list of variables.

• load bowling: It can recall variables from

files that were previously saved.

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Format short, Format long, Format short e

Type Digits
Short 4
Short e 4 (Scientific Notation)
Long 15

{ P∙ e + x , : e + ( x )=10 x }

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Help, Lookfor
• Help: If you know the command but don't know how to operate it, you
can use the help command.

• Lookfor: This command can be used when you need general help rather
than help command.
Exam-
ple)

Help Instructor Lookfor instructor

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General symbol
Type Digits
>> Prompt

A Transposed matrix of A
‘text’ Text string
[1, 3; 2, 4] Matrix
[1 , 3] Row vector
[1 ; 3] Column vector
A(1,2) Row 1, Column 2 – element of A
%A is the matrix Comments
A is the matrix; End of the line
t = 0:0.1:1 Start value: 0,
Final value: 1,
Interval between elements: 0.1

A.*B Element-wise multiplication of A, B

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Relational Operator & Logical Operator
(Relational)

• A < B : A is smaller than

• A <= B: A is smaller than or equal to B
• A > B: A is larger than B
• A >= B: A is larger than or equal to B
• A == B: A is equal to B
• A ~= B: A is not equal to B

(Logical)

• A & B: A and B
• A | B: A or B
• ~A: not A

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Vectors
• Variablename = [ ]

Example)
1. a = ,

2. b =
= [1.4142, 0.2857, 2.0000] ( a(1,2) is the 1st row - 2nd column element of ‘a’. )

• Also, you can make a matrix which is mixed with row or column vec-
tors.

Example) c = [b; a] =

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Vectors
• ':' is a symbol that extracts some elements of a vector.

Example)
a=

b=

c = a(2:3)

d = b(1:2)

e = [a(2:3) ; b(1:2)]

f = [c ; d]

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Vectors
Q) Then, How do you make a vector whose elements are listed in a
given rule?

A) Vectorname = [Initial value : Growth rate : Final value]

𝛑 𝛑 𝛑 𝛑
𝟐 𝟐 𝟐 𝟐

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Vectors
• The other types of vector

1. linspace(Initial value, Final value, The number of elements)

Example) [0:0.1:1] = linspace(0,1,11)
[0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1]

2. logspace(Initial value, Final value, The number of elements)

Example) logspace(-1,1,5) = linspace(0.1,10,5)

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Vectors
• Calculation of vectors

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Vectors
• Example) How to draw a cosine function

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Vectors
• Example)

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Matrices
• How to make a matrix

‘ ; ’ means to go to the next row.

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Matrices
• How to extract a matrix composed of elements in a matrix

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Matrices
• Calculation of some matrices

1. Addition 2. Subtraction 3. Transposed

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Matrices
• Calculation of some matrices

4. Power of matrix 5. Multiplication

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Matrices
• Calculation of some matrices
6. Invertible matrix

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Matrices
Example) Matrix Computation

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Matrices
• Elementwise multiplication
Example) Calculate when

This computation method is called “Element-

wise multiplication”

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Matrices
• Special functions on matrices

Name Function Name Function

It can make a It can insert

ones(m,n) m n matrix with diag(v) a vector v into
all 1’s. diagonal elements.

It can make a
It can make a inverse matrix
zeros(m,n) m n matrix with inv(A)
of A.
all 0’s.

It can calculate
It can make a nn
eye(n) eig(A) an eigenvalue and an eigen-
identity matrix.
vector of a matrix A

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Matrices
Example)

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Matrices

Exercise) Use commands ‘zeros, eye, diag' to make a matrix H.

[ ]
0 .1 1 1
0 0 .1 1
0 0 0.1

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☞ Exercise)

1) If the values of the matrix A and B are given as shown in

'mat 1_1.m’, Write and run a program to calculate the fol-
lowing formula.

2) Save, name it ‘temp.m’ and run on CW.

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☞ Exercise)

1)

2) Just save, name it ‘temp.m’ and run on CW.

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For, While
• For, While loop is used to perform the calculations of a formula sen-
tence over and over again.
• Structure

for ( Variable = Start :

Final ) ,
statement ;
end

while( Condition ) ,
statement ;
end

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For loop
Example) Let’s make a 3 by 2 matrix.

Row loop

Column loop

* real(A): Real value of , imag(A): Imaginary value of when

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While loop
Example) Let’s calculate a sine function y =from 0 to .

t(k) : row vector (x-

axis)
y(k) = row vector
(y-axis)

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While loop
Exercise) Plot the cosine function y = ) A

Because of t(20) = 20!<20, So

‘While loop’ have been ended,
and length(y) is not 20 but 19.
plot(t,y,…. ) →
plot(y, ….)

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If loop
Exercise) Plot the unit step function at t = 2.

If ( Condition ) ,
Statement 1

else if (Condition)
Statement 2

else
Statement 3

end

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