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Problems with mathlab FFS

Problems with mathlab FFS

Problems with mathlab FFS

(OP)
Hello,

Im making research on humans gait and I found some troubles with matlab. I need given data in file pass through Fast fourier transformation. In given file taken column as X axe are samples of acceleration (which varies depending on movement). Frequence of device is 120Hz. In figure1 X axe is Time(s), Y axe is Acceleration(m/s^2) The main matter is how to make Spectrum of this Acceleration wave that in X axe would be Frequence and in Y axe would be Acceleration.



I inlcuded data text file named MTbeapsisukimo2:

http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/434206/MTbea...

Theres the code where I was trying to make X axe - as a frequence and Y axe as a Power:



accX=MTbeapsisukimo2(:,9); %X Acceleration

accX=single(accX); % One Array


Fs=120; % Sampling frequency

t=0:1/Fs:22.945; % Time vector of 22.945 seconds

x=accX;

nfft=2754; % Length of FFT

% Take fft, padding with zeros so that length(X)is equal to nfft

X=fft(x,nfft);

% Take the magnitude of fft of x

mx=abs(X);

% Frequency vector

f=(0:nfft-1)*Fs/nfft;

% Generate the plot, title and labels.

figure(1)

plot(t,x)

title('Acceleration Wave Signal');

xlabel('Time (s)');

ylabel('Acceleration');

figure(2)

plot(f,mx)

title('Power Spectrum of a Acceleration Wave');

xlabel('Frequency (Hz)');

ylabel('Power');



I would be very thankfull for any consultation :)

RE: Problems with mathlab FFS

Well that seems to work reasonably well, what is the issue?

You haven't calculated power by the way, that's linear units. power would be abs(X).*abs(X)

If you are puzzled by the calibration of the y axis read the help on fft, I'll admit I can't immediately tell you why it is exactly what it is. It is to do with the frequency resolution, and because half the energy in a double ended spectrum is above the Nyquist frequency

You seem to have worked out the frequency scaling correctly.

Cheers

Greg Locock


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RE: Problems with mathlab FFS

Here's the correctly scaled fft

X=fft(x,nfft)/nfft*2;

nfft compensates for the way the energy is spread between bins, and the 2 is because of the Nyquist mirroring.

If you are going to do much of this I strongly recommend you read up on signal processing theory.

Cheers

Greg Locock


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RE: Problems with mathlab FFS

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Thank You very much ;)

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