Create a ROS custom message

I have a 3x1 cell array that I would like to publish to a ROS topic. Each cell changes size for each publishing (they are lists of points in a region that my robots occupy). How would I write a custom ROS message to accomplish this?

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Tohru Kikawada
Tohru Kikawada on 2 May 2019
Edited: Tohru Kikawada on 2 May 2019
You'll need to write the custom ROS messages in a manner before using MATLAB. http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/CreatingMsgAndSrv
Onece you write the custom ROS messages, you can import the messages using the following addon. https://jp.mathworks.com/help/robotics/ug/ros-custom-message-support.html

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on 30 Jun 2016

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on 2 May 2019

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