In this lab we introduce the fundamentals of Matlab. Matlab is a programming environment that you will find helpful for many of the exercises in this text.

Manipulating sinusoid functions using complex exponentials turns trigonometric problems into simple arithmetic and algebra. In this lab, we first review the complex exponential signal and the phasor addition property needed for adding cosine waves. Then we will use Matlab to make plots of phasor diagrams that show the vector addition needed when combining sinusoids.

Manipulating sinusoid functions using complex exponentials turns trigonometric problems into simple arithmetic and algebra. In this lab, we first review the complex exponential signal and the phasor addition property needed for adding cosine waves. Then we will use Matlab to make plots of phasor diagrams that show the vector addition needed when combining sinusoids. [Files]

The objective of this lab is to learn how the outputs from two spatially separated sensors that receive signals from the same source can be used to estimate the direction to the source of the signal. The key to this processing is phase difference or time difference of arrival (TDOA) at the two receivers. [Files]