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Sebastian Castro

MathWorks

Active since 2012

Robotics and AI educator at MathWorks. Co-host of the MATLAB and Simulink Robotics Arena.

Professional Interests: Education, Robotics, Simulation, Controls, Algorithms, Physical Modeling, Model-Based Design, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Software Engineering

Non-professional Interests: Running, beer, wine, and heavy metal \m/

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How do I make an autonomous line following program and also have driver control
Have you seen this new video of ours? https://www.mathworks.com/videos/switching-between-driver-and-autonomous-control-of-vex-r...

4 years ago | 0

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Hor to make a URDF file?
URDF is a file format used externally to MATLAB. It just happens that MATLAB has a URDF importer. Here are the official tutoria...

4 years ago | 0

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Simulink 3D Animation vs. Mechanics Explorer
Simulink 3D Animation requires you to simulate the robot dynamics separately, and then whatever positions you get from your simu...

4 years ago | 1

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Robotsimulator is undefined function
That was from a demo, and not a shipping product feature. The closest thing I can think of in the latest version is the basic M...

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I have no 'Build Model' button on my Simulink model Toolbar.
Do you have MATLAB Coder and Simulink Coder in your license? If you type in >> ver in MATLAB, do those toolboxes show up? - ...

4 years ago | 0

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Error using RoboticsPlayground app while running a sample simulation
Do you have a Simscape Multibody license? If you type in >> ver in MATLAB, does that toolbox show up? - Sebastian

4 years ago | 0

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frames not appearing using robotics system toolbox
Maybe the frames have a default size that is much smaller than the robot. If you divide the distance values of the DH parameters...

4 years ago | 1

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Mobile Robotics Simulation Toolbox: Map Issues
The toolbox will accept any binaryOccupancyMap or occupancyMap variable as the map (or robotics.BinaryOccupancyGrid and robotics...

4 years ago | 0

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Issue: Create ROS master on Matlab
Two things. First, if all you want to do is create a ROS master on the localhost, all you need is the following rosinit Secon...

4 years ago | 0

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Is it possible to use PRM and sequentially findpath function in Simulink?
It's doable in the sense that you can put the code in a MATLAB Function block (or as a MATLAB Function in Stateflow). It has its...

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Simulation Map Generator issues
The error you linked is a common one that happens when you input a grayscale (M x N) image instead of a color (M x N x 3) image....

4 years ago | 1

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Trajectory plotting of manipulator path in Simscape
Hi Gautami, Simscape Multibody has a "Spline" block that lets you display a curve if you pass in the XYZ points. You have to di...

4 years ago | 1

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Empty thermal liquid tank
Have you looked into Simscape Fluids? They have a built in Thermal Liquid tank block you can parameterize based on specs like th...

4 years ago | 0

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Feeding knees angle to the walking robot
Thanks for tagging this post with roboticsarena so we got that notification! Much appreciated. In Simscape Multibody, you can c...

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ROS Publish Msg - DJI ROS OSDK
Instead of using a Bus Creator block, use a Blank Message block with the right message type (sensor_msgs/joy), and then use a Bu...

5 years ago | 0

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No visualisation shown in mechanics explorer
You might want to check that the folder containing the mesh files (the .STL or .STEP) files is on your MATLAB path. Else, the si...

5 years ago | 1

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In PRM algorithm how much the Minimum number of nodes needs to find the path
You don't! Probabilistic planning approaches have no guarantees, so you just have to pick something that succeeds most of the ti...

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What is the best desktop configuration/parts to run Matlab?
MathWorks has a system requirements page you can look at! https://www.mathworks.com/support/requirements/matlab-system-requirem...

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Perform Safe Trajectory Tracking Control on Baxter robot
I'd suggest starting by computing the inverse kinematics/dynamics for each arm independently and seeing if you can place both ma...

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Subscribing to a topic with our own defined message type in ROS through Simulink
There is an example in the documentation for setting up custom ROS messages: https://www.mathworks.com/help/robotics/ug/create-...

5 years ago | 0

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Path Following for a Differential Drive Robot
Do you mean the exact code that is shown in the documentation page? Because it's all there... https://www.mathworks.com/help/ro...

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Cannot connect to ROS device
Hi An, Have you installed openssh-server on your Ubuntu machine? This is needed for the tests to succeed, far as I recall. htt...

5 years ago | 2

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Mobile robotics training toolbox
This means you don't have a Robotics System Toolbox license. If you are able to get one, this issue should be resolved. - Seba...

5 years ago | 1

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Custom ROS msg type does not get added to rosmsg list even after MATLAB restart
Hi An, Pretty sure the ROS package requires your .msg file to be inside a subfolder called msg. So your folder structure shoul...

5 years ago | 2

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ROS create PointCloud2 from MATLAB pointCloud
Hello Connor, It's almost been a year since you asked, but I just learned about this question! I've written MATLAB and Simulin...

5 years ago | 1

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Difference between Simulink Coder and Embedded Coder
Both Simulink Coder generate C code from Simulink models, and both of them can put that C code in a C++ wrapper to be effectivel...

5 years ago | 3

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arduino uno simulink matlab Simulink does not permit you to modify the MATLAB installation area.
"Please change to a working folder that is not in the MATLAB installation area and re-try the previous command." So... as the e...

5 years ago | 0

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Variable resistor in Simscape Specialized Technology
You can build one fairly quickly using the approach discussed here: https://www.mathworks.com/help/physmod/sps/powersys/ug/buil...

5 years ago | 0

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is turtlebot 2i also opera table using matlab?
You can control a TurtleBot2 from MATLAB using ROS: https://www.mathworks.com/help/robotics/examples/get-started-with-a-real-tu...

5 years ago | 0

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Abc to dq0 transformation
In Simscape Electrical (previously Simscape Power Systems) https://www.mathworks.com/help/physmod/sps/powersys/ref/abctodq0dq0t...

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