Is it possible to visualize things happening on a target computer in (close to) real time on the Host?

I'm using xPC Target to control a robot arm with a joystick. I'd like to plot its location in a 2-D plane (so things that are too complex to plot using xPC target's minimalistic displays) along with some other plots (expected location and things like that) in real-time on a computer other than the target (ideally on the host). I've done something similar before by using UDP to send the data from the target to a C++ program that receives and visualizes the data, but I'd like to be able to use the MATLAB plotting tools and interface. Is there a good way to do this?

Answer 1

[Rajiv Ghosh-Roy]

If you are looking at instantaneous values, check out the getsignal method of the xpc object. In other words,

tg = xpctarget.xpc
id = tg.getsignalid('My Signal)
val = tg.getsignal(id)

You can then use the value in your plot.