Plotting and selecting specific data to plot - matlab

I need to plot concentration from two instruments so I can compare the results. Ineed to plot concentration from instrument (A) on one axis and concentration from another instrument (B) on the other. The problem is instrument A has a time of 1 hour where as instrument B has 1 minute.
How would I select a specific time where the instrument A can be plotted.
figure
plot(averagetime,averageconcentration_A),'color','r');
hold on
plot(num,(B_concentration_in_mgperlitre);
datetick('x')
ylabel 'Average Concentration(mg/litre)';
xlabel 'Average Time';
This plots a line plot against time.

Perform linear interpolation to get data points for instrument A as if it also had a time of 1 minute.
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_interpolation

Perform interpolation on your data with bigger interval. There are interpolation functions in Malab. However, you need to be careful about the method. If your data moves linearly then you will be able to get a good result as your time stamped are consistent.
I think by looking at your data you would judge the linear propagation of the points. If you are not sure about the function that fits to your data use curve-fitting toolbox to find the best match. Then you need to interpolate according to that function within two points. Curvefitting can be applied reginoally. I mean you don't need to fit a curve for the whole data, finding the best match between t consecutive points will suit your purpose.
In case you want to use linear interpolation, use Matlab function interp1
And this lib lininterp1f

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How to use 3D surface data from cftool in Simulink lookup table?

I am designing a battery model with an internal resistance which is dependant on two variables: SoC and temperature.
I have interpolated the data I have (x,y and z basically - a total of 131 points each) with MATLAB's curve fitting toolbox and was able to generate the desired 3D map of that dependence (see the picture below):
My question is how can I use that map now for my Simulink model? As input parameters I will have SoC and temperature and the resistance in ohm should be the output. However, I have not been able to find a convenient way to export the data in a suitable lookup table (or similarly useful, my first guess was that I should use a 2-D lookup table in this case) in Simulink. However, I am quite new to this and I do not know how to generate the the table data for the Simulink LUT.
Simulink LUT:
Table data is your interpolated z-data from curve fitting. I guess it will have a value for every combination of breakpoints (i.e. it covers every grid intersection in your first diagram). So if Breakpoint 1 is 100 elements and Breakpoint 2 is 40 elements, Table data is 100x40.
If you can't get the data out from the GUI-based interactive curve fit, I guess you can extract the data from the command line. The following is an excerpt of Mathworks' curve fitting documentation. It would be good to verify this because I don't have the toolbox to test it though.
•Interpolation: fittedmodel = fit([Time,Temperature], Energy, 'cubicinterp');
•Evaluation: fittedmodel(80, 40)
Based on your LUT inputs u1 and u2, the table will interpolate or extrapolate the grid to get your output value.
Hope that helps.
I did find a solution after all, thanks Tom for your help, the fittedmodel() function was indeed the key of it. I then used two FOR loops to populate my matrix which was 49x51 (as seen by the grid in the image) after the cftool interpolation. After that it was all a matter of two for loops in one another to populate my matrix with the z values of my T and SoC parameters.
for x = 1:49
for y = 1:51
TableData(x,y)=fittedmodel(B_SoC(x),B_Temp(y));
end
end
Where TableData is the 49x51 matrix required for my LUT, B_SoC and B_Temp being [0:2.083:100] and [-10:1.1:45] respectively (determined as the desired start and end of my x and y axis with the spacing taken from the image with the data cursor).

Select and plot value above a threshold

I have a plot in which there are a few noise components. I am planning to select data from that plot preferably above a threshold in my case I am planning to keep it at 2.009 on the Y axis. And plot the lines going only above it. And if anything is below that i would want to plot it as 0.
as we can see in the figure
t1=t(1:length(t)/5);
t2=t(length(t)/5+1:2*length(t)/5);
t3=t(2*length(t)/5+1:3*length(t)/5);
t4=t(3*length(t)/5+1:4*length(t)/5);
t5=t(4*length(t)/5+1:end);
X=(length(prcdata(:,4))/5);
a = U(1 : X);
b = U(X+1: 2*X);
c = U(2*X+1 : 3*X);
d = U(3*X+1 : 4*X);
e = U(4*X+1 : 5*X);
figure;
subplot (3,2,2)
plot(t1,a);
subplot (3,2,3)
plot(t2,b);
subplot(3,2,4)
plot(t3,c);
subplot(3,2,5)
plot(t4,d);
subplot(3,2,6)
plot(t5,e);
subplot(3,2,1)
plot(t,prcdata(:,5));
figure;
A=a(a>2.009,:);
plot (t1,A);
This code splits the data (in the image into 5 every 2.8 seconds, I am planning to use the thresholding in first 2.8 seconds. Also I had another code but I am just not sure if it works as it took a long time to be analysed
figure;
A=a(a>2.009,:);
plot (t1,A);
for k=1:length(a)
if a(k)>2.009
plot(t1,a(k)), hold on
else
plot(t1,0), hold on
end
end
hold off
The problem is that you are trying to plot potentially several thousand times and adding thousands of points onto a plot which causes severe memory and graphical issues on your computer. One thing you can do is pre process all of the information and then plot it all at once which will take significantly less time.
figure
threshold = 2.009;
A=a>threshold; %Finds all locations where the vector is above your threshold
plot_vals = a.*A; %multiplies by logical vector, this sets invalid values to 0 and leaves valid values untouched
plot(t1,plot_vals)
Because MATLAB is a highly vectorized language, this format will not only be faster to compute due to a lack of for loops, it is also much less intensive on your computer as the graphics engine does not need to process thousands of points individually.
The way MATLAB handles plots is with handles to each line. When you plot a vector, MATLAB is able to simply store the vector in one address and call it once when plotting. However, when each point is called individually, MATLAB has to store each point in a separate location in memory and call all of them individually and graphically handle each point completely separately.
Per request here is the edit
plot(t1(A),plot_vals(A))

Simulink: Spline interpolation on Inports?

I have a Simulink simulation that takes a control input U on an Inport, and simulates the state of the system based on that input. I want the simulation to use a variable time-step ode solver, but U is going to be defined as discrete time points (that aren't evenly spaced) that certainly aren't going to align with the times that are generated by (say) ode15s.
I want Simulink to take the U vector and a time vector, and use cubic spline interpolation to determine the value of U for times that do not align with the given U vector--similar to the 'Interpolate Data' option in the Inport preferences, except again my data is neither evenly spaced, nor do I want linear interpolation. How can I do this?
A possible way to achieve this is the following. I am assuming the U vector is already known beforehand. This is implied from the fact the vector values are given at random sample moments which are not matching with the solver sample moments.
Take an '1-D interpolation table' block and connect a 'Clock' block as input. In the 1-D interpolation table you are able to specify 'Table data' in your case the values of the U vector. And you are able to specify the breakpoints that are in your case the time points. These can be variables from your workspace.
Then under the tabled 'Algorithm' you choose 'Cubic spline' for the interpolation method.
That should do the trick.

Matlab - creating psd with right scaling

I want to analyze an audiodata (.wav with pcm, 32k as sampling rate) and create the psd of it with the axes Sxx (watts/hertz not db) and f (hertz).
So I would start by reading out the audiodata with:
[x,fs]=audioread('test.wav');
After this I'm having some problems because I dont really know how to proceed and also Matlab always tells me that psd functions won't be supported in the future and that I should use pwelch.. (also tried to build the autocorr and afterwards use fourier to get to the Sxx but it didn't work out really well)
So could anybody tell me how I can get from my vector x to a vector with the psdvalues in watts/hertz and plot it afterwards?
very grateful for every kind of help! :)
Update1: Yes I did read the documentation of pwelch but I'm afraid my english is too bad to understand it completly.
So if I use the psd documentation:
nfft = 2^nextpow2(length(x));
Pxx = abs(fft(x,nfft)).^2/length(x)/fs;
Hpsd = dspdata.psd(Pxx(1:length(Pxx)/2),'fs',fs);
plot(Hpsd)
I'm able to get the plot in db with the peak at the right frequency. (I dont know how dspdata.psd work though)
I tried out:
[Pyy,f]=pwelch(x,fs)
plot(Pyy)
this gives me a non db-scale but the peak is at the wrong frequency
Update 2:
First of all, thanks a lot for your detailed answer! At the moment I'm working on my matlabskills as well as my english language but all the specific technical terms give me a hard time..
When using your example of pwelch on a wav-data with a clear frequency of 1khz, the plot shows me the peak at round about 0.14, could it maybe still be a special-scaled x-axis?
If I try it this way:
[y,fs]=audioread('test.wav');
N=length(y);
bin_vals=0:N-1;
fax_Hz= bin_vals*fs/N;
N_2=ceil(N/2);
Y=fft(y);
pyy=Y.*conj(Y);
plot(fax_Hz(1:N_2),pyy(1:N_2))
the result seems right (is this way correct?), but I still need some time to search for a proper way to display the y-axis in W/Hz, since I dont know how the audiosignal was created.
Update 3:
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=33803229773204653857
This wav file should have a dominant frequency at 1khz with a duration of 3 seconds and a sampling frequency of 44100Hz. (If I plot the data received from audioread the oscillation seems reasonable)
with
[y,fs]=audioread('1khz.wav');
[pyy,f]=pwelch(y,fs);
plot(f,pyy)
I get a peak at 0.14 on the x-axis.
if I use
[y,fs]=audioread('1khz.wav');
[pyy,f]=pwelch(y,[],[],[],fs);
plot(f,pyy)
instead, the peak is at the 1000. Is this way right? And how could I interpret the difference scaling on the y-axis? (pwelch vs. square of abs)
I also wanted to ask if it is possible to get a flat psd of awgn in matlab? (since you just have finite elements I don't know to get there)
Thanks again for your detailed support!
Update 4
#A.Donda
So I have a new Problem for which I think it is probably necessary to go a bit more into detail. So my plan is basically to do the following:
Read and Audiodata ([y,fs]) and generate white Noise with a certain SNR ([n,fs])
Generate a Filter H which shapes the PSD(y) similiar to the PSD(n)
Generate an inverse Filter G=H^(-1) which reverts the effect of H.
My problem is that with using pwelch, the resulting vectorlength of pyy is way smaller than the vectorlength of y. Since my Filter is determined by P=sqrt(pnn/pyy), I can't multiply fft(y)*H and therefore get no results.
Do you know any help for this Problem?
Or is there a way to go back from a PSD (Welch estimated) to a normal signal (like an inverse function for pwelch)?
In the example you have from the psd documentation, you compute a psd estimate yourself, then put it into a dspdata.psd container and plot it. What dspdata.psd data does here for you is basically compute the frequency axis and provide it to the plot command, nothing more. You get a plot of the spectral density estimate, but that's the one you compute yourself using fft, which is the simplest and worst psd estimate you can get, a so-called periodogram.
Your use of pwelch is almost correct, you just forgot to use the frequency axis information in your plot.
[Pyy,f]=pwelch(x,fs)
plot(f,Pyy)
should give you the peak at the correct frequency.
Your use of pwelch is almost correct, but you have to give the sampling frequency as the 5th argument, and then use the frequency axis information in your plot.
[Pyy,f]=pwelch(y,[],[],[],fs);
plot(f,Pyy)
should give you the peak at the correct frequency.
What pwelch gives you is the spectral density of the signal over Hz. Correct axis labels would therefore be
xlabel('frequency (Hz)')
ylabel('psd (1/Hz)')
The signal you give pwelch is a pure sequence of numbers without physical dimensions. By specifying the sampling rate, the time axis gets a physical unit, s, therefore the resulting frequency is in Hz and the density is in 1/Hz. But still your time series values have no physical dimension, and therefore the density cannot be related to something like W. Has your audiosignal been obtained by a calibrated A/D converter? If yes, you should be able to relate your data to a physical dimension and units, but that's a nontrivial step.
On a personal note, I'd really advise you to brush up on your English, because using software, especially programming interfaces, without properly understanding the documentation is a recipe for disaster.

Interpolating irregularly spaced 3D matrix in matlab

I have a time series of temperature profiles that I want to interpolate, I want to ask how to do this if my data is irregularly spaced.
Here are the specifics of the matrix:
The temperature is 30x365
The time is 1x365
Depth is 30x1
Both time and depth are irregularly spaced. I want to ask how I can interpolate them into a regular grid?
I have looked at interp2 and TriScatteredInterp in Matlab, however the problem are the following:
interp2 works only if data is in a regular grid.
TriscatteredInterp works only if the vectors are column vectors. Although time and depth are both column vectors, temperature is not.
Thanks.
Function Interp2 does not require for a regularly spaced measurement grid at all, it only requires a monotonic one. That is, sampling positions stored in vectors depths and times must increase (or decrease) and that's all.
Assuming this is indeed is the situation* and that you want to interpolate at regular positions** stored in vectors rdepths and rtimes, you can do:
[JT, JD] = meshgrid(times, depths); %% The irregular measurement grid
[RT, RD] = meshgrid(rtimes, rdepths); %% The regular interpolation grid
TemperaturesOnRegularGrid = interp2(JT, JD, TemperaturesOnIrregularGrid, RT, RD);
* : If not, you can sort on rows and columns to come back to a monotonic grid.
**: In fact Interp2 has no restriction for output grid (it can be irregular or even non-monotonic).
I would use your data to fit to a spline or polynomial and then re-sample at regular intervals. I would highly recommend the polyfitn function. Actually, anything by this John D'Errico guy is incredible. Aside from that, I have used this function in the past when I had data on a irregularly spaced 3D problem and it worked reasonably well. If your data set has good support, which I suspect it does, this will be a piece of cake. Enjoy! Hope this helps!
Try the GridFit tool on MATLAB central by John D'Errico. To use it, pass in your 2 independent data vectors (time & temperature), the dependent data matrix (depth) along with the regularly spaced X & Y data points to use. By default the tool also does smoothing for overlapping (or nearly) data points. If this is not desired, you can override this (and other options) through a wide range of configuration options. Example code:
%Establish regularly spaced points
num_points = 20;
time_pts = linspace(min(time),max(time),num_points);
depth_pts = linspace(min(depth),max(depth),num_points);
%Run interpolation (with smoothing)
Pest = gridfit(depth, time, temp, time_pts, depth_pts);