Developed by Sanworks
ArCOM is a set of classes to simplify 2 types of data transaction:
Arduino <--USB--> MATLAB/GNU Octave
Arduino <--UART-->Arduino.
It provides single-line commands on both ends to transmit and receive scalars or arrays of different data types.
ArCOM is a contraction of Arduino Communication.
Currently, ArCOM transmits scalar integers and arrays of integers:
8-bit types
uint8, int8, char
16-bit types
uint16, int16
32-bit types
uint32, int32
On the MATLAB side, ArCOM wraps three serial interfaces so your code can be used with any of:
Matlab's built-in Java-based serial interface
The PsychToolbox IOPort serial interface (significantly faster and lower latency!)
ArCOM configures serial port communication settings for you on both sides automatically (byte order, RTS/request to send, etc, to match the default configurations for MATLAB and Arduino).
Here's how you'd use ArCOM to send an unsigned 16-bit integer array from Arduino to MATLAB:
Arduino code:
#include "ArCOM.h" // Import the ArCOM library
ArCOM myUSB(SerialUSB); // Create an ArCOM wrapper for the SerialUSB interface
unsigned short myDataArray[10] = {0}; // Create a 1x10 uint16 array
void setup() {
SerialUSB.begin(115200); // Initialize the USB serial port
myUSB.writeUint16Array(myDataArray,10); // Send the array to MATLAB's buffer
}
void loop() {}
MATLAB code (with ArCOM.m in the MATLAB path):
SerialPort1 = ArCOM('open', 'COM3', 115200); % Create and open the serial port
MyData = ArCOM('read', SerialPort1, 10, 'uint16'); % Read the array from the buffer
Another example, sending an array of 100 signed 32-bit ints from MATLAB to Arduino,
MATLAB code:
MyData = -151340:-151241;
ArCOM('write', SerialPort1, MyData, 'int16');
Arduino code:
long myDataArray[100] = {0}; // Create a 1x100 int16 array
...
myUSB.readint16Array(myDataArray,10);
ArCOM is under development, and may contain bugs. Please submit any bugs you encounter to:
Thank you!