How to multiply matrices with variables as elements
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Yau Ming Ng
on 13 Sep 2019
Answered: Naveen Venkata Krishnan
on 9 Oct 2019
% v is the velocity of the projectile [1:60]
% theta is the angle of at which it is launched [0:75]
% dx is the distance of x-coordinate of the object from the origin after t seconds
% dy is the distance of x-coordinate of the object from the origin after t seconds
% Matrix 1, M1 = [0, v*cosd(theta); -4.9, v*sind(theta)]
% Matrix 2, M2 = [t^2; t]
% Matrix 3, M3 = [dx; dy]
[0, v*cosd(theta); -4.9, v*sind(theta)]*[t^2; t] = [dx; dy]
The formula above is the equation for travel of a projectile in matrix form.
I was planning on searching for the shortest time possible for an object to travel dx and dy (which I set)
My plan was to multiply the equation by the inverse of M1. And then find the minimum value of t using a min function, then obtaining its v and theta that way.
[t^2; t]=1/(4.9*v*cos(theta))*[v.*sind(theta), -v.*cosd(theta); 4.9, 0]*[dx; dy]
In Matlab it would be closer to
[x; y]=1/(4.9*v*cos(theta))*[v.*sind(theta), -v.*cosd(theta); 4.9, 0]*[dx; dy]
and then finding the min for y.
However the variables caused the matrix to explode into a 2x(way too much) matrix.
> Error using vertcat
> Dimensions of arrays being concatenated are not consistent.
Is there another way of doing this?
Edit :
Disclaimer : If the variables look suspiciously familiar, my school requested that I pick v and theta by hand without caring for time taken
This was just a personal challenge using the work they gave me.
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Bob Thompson
on 13 Sep 2019
I am not well versed in these forms of matlab, but I know that symbolic values and function (f(x) math functions, not matlab script fuctions) do exist. I think you would have a better time looking down that route.
I believe you're receiving the error because v and theta are already defined arrays (they have sizes), but do not have the same size for their arrays, so it is difficult to multiply 60x1 elements of v with the 75x1 elements of theta.
Walter Roberson
on 13 Sep 2019
Caution:
[x; y]=1/(4.9*v*cos(theta))*[v.*sind(theta), -v.*cosd(theta); 4.9, 0]*[dx; dy]
your cos(theta) should be a cosd(theta)
And you would need to assign this to a single varible and extract the parts of the variable afterwards.
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Naveen Venkata Krishnan
on 9 Oct 2019
Hello,
Based on the problem description you are trying to minimize the time taken to reach a particular set point ( cost function ) where Velocity(v) and Theta(θ) are the optimization variables . Assuming the vectors [1:60] and [0:75] denotes the Range of optimization variables ( v and θ), in that case
v-lower bound : 1;
v-upper bound :60;
θ-lowerbound : 0;
θ-upper bound : 75;
cost function : ![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/241758/image.png)
![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/241758/image.png)
where here x,y are dx,dy in your case.
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