Algorithm (Workflow)

This algorithm is a MATLAB function named cellsize that calculates the size of each element within a cell array. It is part of the SolidGeometry library and was introduced in version 4.3.

Input Parameters

• C: A cell array whose elements' sizes are to be determined.

Output Results

• cs: An array containing the size of each element in the input cell array C.

Algorithm Explanation

The function begins by initializing an array cs with zeros, having the same size as the input cell array C. This is done using the zeros function, which creates an array of zeros with dimensions matching C.

The function then enters a for loop that iterates over each element of the cell array C. The loop runs from 1 to the total number of elements in C, which is determined using the numel function.

Within the loop, the function calculates the number of elements in each cell of C using numel(C{i}) and assigns this value to the corresponding position in the cs array. This effectively stores the size of each cell element in cs.

After the loop completes, the function returns the cs array, which contains the sizes of all elements in the input cell array C.

Example Usage

The function can be used as follows:

• Load a MATLAB file: loadweb JACO_robot.mat;
• Calculate the size of a cell array: FS=FSofSG(JCF), size(FS)
• Determine the size of each element in the cell array: cellsize(FS)
• Transpose the cell array and determine sizes: cellsize(FS')
• Calculate sizes for a custom cell array: cellsize({[1 ],[3 2] [2 3 1] [2]})