Millions of engineers and scientists worldwide use MATLAB to analyze and design the systems and products transforming our world. Such huge usage leads to some very interesting prospects in designing. This list of 20 MATLAB projects ideas range over some of the solutions that use or can use MATLAB. After all, the list of applications of such a software is endless.
Logging Sensor Data in MS EXCEL through MATLAB GUI
This project presents a MATLAB graphical user interface (GUI)-based approach to save real-time process data obtained from a temperature sensor (LM35) in MS Excel. The GUI allows the user to graphically view the temperature variation at the end of sensor data acquisition.
This project is available at: Logging Sensor Data in MS EXCEL through MATLAB GUI
Light Animations Using Arduino and MATLAB
In this project, we present a MATLAB-based graphical user interface (GUI) approach to control the glowing pattern of a number of light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Use of GUI is advantageous since the user can control illumination patterns while performing other tasks in the PC.
Audio Compression using Wavelets in MATLAB
Audio frequencies range from 20Hz to 20kHz but these frequencies are not heard in the same way. Frequencies below 20Hz and above 20kHz are very difficult to hear, while those not much more than 20Hz, or not much less than 20kHz, cannot be heard by most people. We often need to process these audio signals for various applications. MATLAB is one of the best signal analysis and signal processing tools.
Audio compression is a very good example of speech and signal processing. We use the Internet for various purposes including entertainment. Audio is common in all entertainment applications. If an audio file size is large, it takes more space to store.
Audio/video compression frees up space substantially, which can then be utilised for other purposes. This article describes some important audio compression techniques.
Automatic Certificate Generation Using MATLAB
MATLAB is a versatile tool that can automate many tasks. Presented here is a MATLAB code to generate certificates for workshops, conferences, symposiums, etc. Conventionally, educational institutions and companies use specialised tools for report cards and certificates generation on a large scale. This MATLAB code can be extended to generate analysis reports for large data sets as well.
This project is available at: Automatic Certificate Generation Using MATLAB
Image processing using MATLAB
In this series of four articles, fundamentals, as well as advanced topics of image processing using MATLAB, are discussed. The articles cover basic to advanced functions of MATLAB’s image processing toolbox (IPT) and their effects on different images.
This project is available at: Image processing using MATLAB
Lossless Image Compression
Cameras are nowadays being provided with more and more megapixels to improve the quality of captured images. With improvement in image quality, size of the image file also increases. One of the applications of image compression with MATLAB using a graphical user interface is described in this project. This project proposes a technique to compress the captured image to reduce its size while maintaining its quality.
This project is available at: Lossless Image Compression
Huffman Encoding and Decoding
Encoding the information before transmission is necessary to ensure data security and efficient delivery of the information. Huffman algorithm is a popular encoding method used in electronics communication systems. It is widely used in all the mainstream compression formats that you might encounter. The MATLAB project presented here encodes and decodes the information and also outputs the values of entropy, efficiency and frequency probabilities of characters present in the data stream.
This project is available at: Huffman Encoding and Decoding
Artificial Neural Network Simulation
Artificial neural network, in essence, is an attempt to simulate the brain. When the user enters the inputs (say, p1, p2 and p3) and the expected corresponding outputs (say, t1, t2 and t3) in the program, the program trains the system and gives a final weight. The final weight is computed to get the final expected output. This program is an attempt to understand the basics of artificial neural network and how one can use it for further applications.
Circuit Design Calculator
While designing electronic circuits, component values are calculated using formulae from the circuit’s theory. These calculations waste a lot of time. This circuit design calculator software developed in MATLAB helps you solve, analyse and determine circuit design with capacitors, inductors, resistors, diodes, transistors and other components. The software can provide answers to many complex analogue and digital circuit design problems.
This project is available at: Circuit Design Calculator
Antenna Analysis and Design
Today, almost all applications are expected to be wireless, consume very little power and have high data retention capability. A good design of the antenna can result in a high degree of efficiency, better directivity and more beamwidth for long-distance transmission without much loss of information. This program written in MATLAB helps in designing antenna arrays.
This project is available at: Antenna Analysis and Design
Recognition of Vehicle Number Plate
This approach presents a method for detecting and identifying the vehicle number plate for the detection of authorized and unauthorized vehicles. This project implements two methods namely plate location extraction and plate characters segmentation. Video surveillance system is used for security purpose as well as monitoring systems. But detection of moving object is a challenging part of video surveillance. proposes a method for the detection and identification of vehicle number plate that will help in the detection of number plates of authorized and unauthorized vehicles.
Analogue Clock
NASA might get a fancy digital-count display, retire the analogue clock from Apollo era but the passion for the analogue clock does not end. An analogue clock has moving hands. The smaller (hours) hand and travels 30° in one hour whereas the longer (minutes) hand travels 360° in an hour. The seconds hand rotates with a step of 6°. Using this in MATLAB, you could design this for yourself. MATLAB has a good collection of graphics commands for plotting and analysing complex signals.
This project is available at: Analogue Clock
Real-Time Face Detection
Object detection and tracking are important in many computer vision applications, including activity recognition, automotive safety and surveillance. Presented here is an object detection system that can detect a human face, eyes and upper body. This program can be used to detect on pressing corresponding buttons.
This project is available at: Real-Time Face Detection
Face Counter
If you try to count a large number of people in a hall, you may take time to count them and probably also make a mistake. This next project helps count the number of people present in a meeting hall or classroom at a time. The program logic is also applicable in other applications including automatic temperature control which depends on the number of persons in a room. Video camera plays a very important role in this project.
This project is available at: Face Counter
Colour-Sensing Robot
MATLAB is a very powerful tool and plays an important role in image processing. Most image-processing techniques involve treating the image as a two-dimensional signal and applying standard signal-processing techniques to it. This MATLAB-based project processes images taken by the camera and extracts the position of a red-coloured object.
This project is available at: Colour-Sensing Robot
Gain and Noise Calculations of Cascaded Systems
Parameters like noise, signal-to-noise ratio and gain play an important role in the performance of communication systems. In this project, MATLAB software is used to design a calculator for the calculation of noise factors. Such type of calculators can be easily created by playing with the array and matrix properties of MATLAB, and can be used for any cascade system with any number of stages.
Plotting with MATLAB
This project deals with 2D and 3D graphics plotting in MATLAB. It also explains the audio signal manipulations using plotting in MATLAB. To use the ‘plot’ function in MATLAB, you should first make sure that the matrices/vectors you are trying to use are of equal dimensions. Familiarisation with basic MATLAB objects like vectors and matrices will help in understanding the subject better before delving into details.
This project is available at: Plotting with MATLAB
Implementation of Fast Fourier Transform
FFTs are of great importance to a wide variety of applications including digital signal processing (such as linear filtering, correlation analysis and spectrum analysis) and solving partial differential equations to algorithms for quick multiplication of large integers. This project shows an example to explain what it means to look at a signal in two domains.
Digital FIR Filters
This utility program can be a handy tool for anyone working in the field of signal processing with interest in the implementation of the project through C++ programming. In order to understand the depth of designing an FIR filter using window functions, coding in C++ is a must. Described here is a C++ implementation of the finite impulse response (FIR) filters using Blackman window method.
This project is available at: Digital FIR Filters
Hearing Aids System
Approximately 10% of the world’s population suffers from some type of hearing loss, yet only a small percentage of this statistic use a hearing aid. Traditional analogue hearing aids are similar to a simple radio. This project presents a simulation of simple digital hearing aid developed using MATLAB programming language. This digital hearing aid system is designed to adapt for mild and moderate hearing loss patient. It allows different gains to be set to map different levels of hearing loss.
This project is available at: Hearing Aids System
Laser-Guided Vehicle
The idea with this next project is to use two synchronized lasers on top of each other and increase the robustness of road detection, compared to only one laser. This algorithm developed in MATLAB uses a sequence of scans recorded on a snowy road with snow piles on the sides. The road detection uses the Hough transform for each scan. The relative position of the robot is estimated from the road edge detections.
This project is available at: Laser Guided Vehicle
Armature Controlled D.C Motor
Using MATLAB, this project employs armature control method for DC motors. The voltage applied to the armature circuit of the motor is changed by keeping the voltage supplied to the field circuit of the motor constant. However, there are many other methods that can be used to control the speed of the DC motor. The voltage control method changes the voltage to control the speed of the motor, whereas the flux control method makes changes in the flux. Another method is rheostatic control in which the rheostat variations control the speed.
Simulation and Fault analysis of HVDC
This Simulation and Fault analysis of HVDC on MATLAB project demonstrates the methodology for modeling steady state operation of HVDC transmission system rectifier using universally available software Matlab/Simulink. Functioning of complex HVDC transmission system converter can be obtained by analytical modeling. Further easy to comprehend analytical model in universally available software like Matlab/Simulink can help in fast spread of complex HVDC system.
7 TAP FIR Filter Using HDL
Design Of 7 TAP FIR filter using hardware description language (HDL) and analysis using MATLAB project explains about a new design of FIR filter to determine control circuits in DSP architectures. This project is useful in DSP architecture. The different operations use time multiplexed algorithms multiplexed into single functional unit. In order to reduce space in the circuit we need to use multiplexing in algorithms so here in order to reduce space we are running total functional units in a single execution.
Analysis of CDMA Modem
Spread spectrum is a type of modulation that spreads data transmission across available frequency band, in excess of minimum bandwidth available. CDMA systems employ spread spectrum to assign a unique code to every user. Our project aims to simulate the CDMA modem using Direct Sequence Spread spectrum. The paper includes real time processing of signal, BPSK modulation, and multiplication with a pseudo random code to generate Spread Spectrum
This project is available at: Analysis of CDMA Modem
Let us know how many of these you enjoyed. We also welcome MATLAB projects ideas in the comment section below.
This article was first published on 5 October 2017 and was recently updated on 11 December 2018.
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