Ground Truth Trajectories

Create trajectories from position, motion, and rotation

Create trajectories from geodetic coordinates, translational and rotational motion, and position, orientation, and velocity.

Functions

`geoTrajectory`	Waypoint trajectory in geodetic coordinates
`kinematicTrajectory`	Rate-driven trajectory generator
`waypointTrajectory`	Waypoint trajectory generator
`polynomialTrajectory`	Piecewise-polynomial trajectory generator (Since R2023a)

`quaternion`	Create quaternion array
`rotmat`	Convert quaternion to rotation matrix
`euler`	Convert quaternion to Euler angles (radians)
`eulerd`	Convert quaternion to Euler angles (degrees)
`interp1`	Quaternion interpolation (table lookup) (Since R2025a)
`randrot`	Uniformly distributed random rotations
`rotvec`	Convert quaternion to rotation vector (radians)
`rotvecd`	Convert quaternion to rotation vector (degrees)
`compact`	Convert quaternion array to N-by-4 matrix
`parts`	Extract quaternion parts
`rotateframe`	Quaternion frame rotation
`rotatepoint`	Quaternion point rotation
`norm`	Quaternion norm
`normalize`	Quaternion normalization
`dist`	Angular distance in radians
`slerp`	Spherical linear interpolation
`meanrot`	Quaternion mean rotation

Model Platform Motion Using Trajectory Objects
This topic introduces how to use three different trajectory objects to model platform trajectories, and how to choose between them.

Generate and visualize trajectories of multiple aircraft using radarScenario and waypointTrajectory.