MATLAB: How to import accelerometer and gyro data from serial port to MATLAB work space

Question

I am working with MPU 6050 sensor which has 3 axis accelerometer and gyro sensor in it. But i don't know how to import those data directly from serial monitor to MATLAB work space. Can anyone hep me to figure out this?

Any help is appreciated.

thanks.

Answer 1

Hi vrutang,

How are the acclerometer and gyro connected to the Arduino ?

If they are are not connected to serial you could stream the values over a serial port and then read it in MATLAB using the fopen and fread utilies with a serial object.

Hope this helps !!

Thanks,

Sreeram Mohan