Calculating arc length of a curve

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Hari krishnan
Hari krishnan 2018-11-19
评论： Hari krishnan 2018-11-19
I have the trajectory for an object moving on a plane as shown in the figure. Can any one give me an idea to calculate the arc length of this curve? Sample data along with the trajectory plot is attached.

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Torsten
Torsten 2018-11-19
Use Pythagoras' theorem:
n = numel(x);
length = 0.0;
for i = 1:n-1
length = length + sqrt( (x(i+1)-x(i))^2 + (y(i+1)-y(i))^2 );
end
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Torsten
Torsten 2018-11-19
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curvature
Hari krishnan
Hari krishnan 2018-11-19
@ Torsten, I have seen this before. This is to calculate how curvous the trajectory or line is. But what i want to see is how tortous the trajectory is, which can be calculated as the arc length divided by the eucledian distance between the initial and final set of points.

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