Add-Ons

MATLAB Add-Ons

• Add-ons extend the capabilities of MATLAB® by providing additional functionality for specific tasks and applications, such as:

  • connecting to hardware devices

  • additional algorithms

  • interactive apps

• Available from:

  • MathWorks®

  • the global MATLAB user community

• Encompass a wide variety of resources

  • products

  • apps

  • toolboxes

  • support packages

• More information

Learners should be able to

• navigate to toolboxes and Add-Ons

• view Add-Ons and toolboxes

• install and use Add-Ons

• Before going into installing Add-Ons let’s have a background to the MATLAB environments and ecosystem!

MATLAB Add-Ons manager

In the GUI, the Add-Ons manager can be selected from the menu at the top. The drop-down menu options allow users to:

• Browse a library of Add-Ons to download. Note that some Add-Ons require a separate license.

  

• Manage Add-Ons already downloaded.

• Package user-generated code as a Toolbox or App

• Get hardware-related support packages

Here we will only focus on the first two options.

Note

Note that very many packages are already included in the Academic installation and license

Some toolboxes

• Matlab products

  • Parallel Computing Toolbox

  • MATLAB Parallel Server

  • Deep Learning Toolbox

  • Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox

• Simulink

  • Stateflow

  • SimEvents

  • Simscape

Some toolboxes provides GUI for their tools Apps

• Matlab products

  • Deep Network Designer - Design and visualize deep learning networks Deep Network Designer

  • Curve Fitter - Fit curves and surfaces to data

  • Deep Learning Toolbox

  • Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox

• Simulink

  • Stateflow

  • SimEvents

  • Simscape

• We won’t cover the usage of the toolboxes here!

Install Add-Ons

• Search in add-ons explorer and install.

• Ends up in local folder and is in the part so it should be reached wherever you are in the file tree.

• ~/MATLAB Add-Ons

• It’s in the path so it should be possible to run directly if you don’t need to run a installation file.

• For more information about a specific support package install location, see the documentation for the package.

Warning

To be able to install you need to use the email for a personal mathworks account.

See also

You can install some Add-Ons manually using an installation file. This is useful in several situations:

• The add-on is not available for installation through the Add-On Explorer, for example, if you create a custom add-on yourself or receive one from someone else.

• You downloaded the add-on from the Add-On Explorer without installing it.

• You downloaded the add-on from the File Exchange at MATLAB Central™.

• MathWorkds page on getting Add-Ons

Demo

• Search for kalmanf

• Click “Learning the Kalman Filter”

• Look at the documentation

• Test if the command works today:

>> kalmanf
Unrecognized function or variable 'kalmanf'.

• OK, it is not there

• Click “Add”, and “Download and Add to path”

• Type email address connected to your MathWorks account

• Installation starts

• It will end up in:

$ tree MATLAB\ Add-Ons/
MATLAB\ Add-Ons/
└── Collections
|   └── Efficient\ GRIB1\ data\ reader
|       ├── core.28328
|       ├── license.txt
|       ├── readGRIB1.c
|       ├── readGRIB1.mexa64
|       └── resources
|           ├── addons_core.xml
|           ├── matlab_path_entries.xml
|           ├── metadata.xml
|           ├── previewImage.png
|           ├── readGRIB1.zip
|           └── screenshot.png
└── Functions
    └── Learning\ the\ Kalman\ Filter
        ├── kalmanf.m
        └── resources
            ├── addons_core.xml
            ├── kalmanf.zip
            ├── matlab_path_entries.xml
            ├── metadata.xml
            ├── previewImage.png
            └── screenshot.png

• Evidently it is a function. Note that I already have something classified as collections

• Now test:

>> kalmanf()
'kalmanf' requires Learning the Kalman Filter version 1.0.0.0 to be enabled.

• OK. It is installed but may need some other things. Just an example!!

Exercises

1. Find the kalmanf and install it and run a test command.

2. (Optional) Browse the add-ons and get inspired for your own work!

Keypoints

• Many Add-Ons, like toolboxes and packages are available at the Clusters

• You can view Add-Ons and toolboxes

  • It is all more or less graphical

• To install Add-Ons

  • Search in Add-Ons explorer and install.

  • Ends up in local folder and is in the path so it should be reached wherever you are in the file tree.