Matlab 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 from Mathworks

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.

Seealso

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!!

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.