ctraj.m

%CTRAJ Cartesian trajectory between two poses
%
% TC = CTRAJ(T0, T1, N) is a Cartesian trajectory (4x4xN) from pose T0 to T1
% with N points that follow a trapezoidal velocity profile along the path.
% The Cartesian trajectory is a homogeneous transform sequence and the last 
% subscript being the point index, that is, T(:,:,i) is the i'th point along
% the path.
%
% TC = CTRAJ(T0, T1, S) as above but the elements of S (Nx1) specify the 
% fractional distance  along the path, and these values are in the range [0 1].
% The i'th point corresponds to a distance S(i) along the path.
%
% Notes::
% - If T0 or T1 is equal to [] it is taken to be the identity matrix.
% - In the second case S could be generated by a scalar trajectory generator
%   such as TPOLY or LSPB (default).
% - Orientation interpolation is performed using quaternion interpolation.
%
% Reference::
% Robotics, Vision & Control, Sec 3.1.5,
% Peter Corke, Springer 2011
%
% See also LSPB, MSTRAJ, TRINTERP, UnitQuaternion.interp, SE3.ctraj.




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function traj = ctraj(T0, T1, t)

%     T0 = SE3.check(T0);
%     T1 = SE3.check(T1);
    
    % distance along path is a smooth function of time
    if isscalar(t)
        s = lspb(0, 1, t);
    else
        s = t(:);
    end


    for i=1:length(s)    
        traj(:,:,i) = trinterp(T0, T1, s(i));
    end
end