How to calculate total distance traveled from position vs time experimental data
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I have some experimental data like this (position against time), how do i find the scalar value of distance moved?
This should be 10+16+16+14=56m.* fixed dumb error
Not interested in direction just magnitude of movement.
Thanks!
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Alex Mcaulley
on 7 Jun 2019
Following your image, you have a position array like:
position = [10,10,0,0,-16,-16,0,14];
Then to calculate the total distance:
distance = sum(abs(diff(position)))
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