Calculating the angle between two vectors

Is my code correct? I need to calculate the angle between these vectors, I would check if the command is correct!

clear all
  Files=dir('*.txt');
  [z,n]=size(Files);
  for x=1:z
     arq=load(Files(x).name);
     [v,b]=size(arq);
  for m=1:v;
      pre_maleolo=atan2(norm(cross(arq(m,1:3)-arq(m,4:6),arq(m,7:9)-arq(m,4:6))),dot(arq(m,1:3)-arq(m,4:6),arq(m,7:9)-arq(m,4:6)));
      pre_joelho=atan2(norm(cross(arq(m,4:6)-arq(m,7:9),arq(m,10:12)-arq(m,7:9))),dot(arq(m,4:6)-arq(m,7:9),arq(m,10:12)-arq(m,7:9)));
      pre_quadril=atan2(norm(cross(arq(m,7:9)-arq(m,10:12),arq(m,13:15)-arq(m,10:12))),dot(arq(m,7:9)-arq(m,10:12),arq(m,13:15)-arq(m,10:12)));
      pre_tronco=atan2(norm(cross(arq(m,10:12)-arq(m,13:15),arq(m,16:18)-arq(m,13:15))),dot(arq(m,10:12)-arq(m,13:15),arq(m,16:18)-arq(m,13:15)));
      maleolo(m)=pre_maleolo*180/pi;
      joelho(m)=pre_joelho*180/pi;
      quadril(m)=pre_quadril*180/pi;
      tronco(m)=pre_tronco*180/pi;

       end
        savefile=['angulos','.',Files(x).name];
        save(fullfile('C:','TCC',savefile),'maleolo','joelho','quadril','tronco','-ASCII');
    end

Answer 1

[Jan]

Usually after arq=load(Files(x).name) the variable arq is a struct. I think, you want to use a specific field of it. If you have a different situation, please explain this explicitly.

There is no chance that we can guess if parts like "arq(m,7:9)-arq(m,4:6)" are correct or not. There is neither a documentation nor descriptive names of variables.

You forgot what you think about the correctness of your code. Do you error messages or do the results differ from your expectations? Did you create test data with known output and compared it with the results?

[Marcelo Costa]

the error is that the graphical representation of the data is reverse of which is actually.

About the first part arq=load(Files(x).name) is working.

example of which is composed as a txt file.

metatarsl(x) metatarsl(y) metatarsl(z) malleolus(x) malleolus(y) malleolus(z) epicondyle(x) epicondyle(y) epicondyle(z) trochanter(x) trochanter(y) trochanter(z) iliac(x) iliac(y) iliac(z) acromion(x) acromion(y) acromion(z)

[Jan]

@Marcelo: There is no graphical output in your code. And what exactly is "reverse" here? Does the example of the text file help to understand the problem? It is surprising that the text file does not contain any numbers.

I suggest to update the question substantially: Take into account, that we do not have the faintest idea about what you are doing. Omit all code, which is not related to the problem. Consider, that is is even for the author very hard to debug lines like this:

atan2(norm(cross(arq(m,10:12)-arq(m,13:15),arq(m,16:18)-arq(m,13:15))),dot(arq(m,10:12)-arq(m,13:15),arq(m,16:18)-arq(m,13:15)))

Without knowing what this line should compute, a debugging is impossible.

[Marcelo Costa]

This a example file. https://www.dropbox.com/s/rposu6mprscafha/suj1_chute1_pos.txt

The header of file is metatarsl(x) metatarsl(y) metatarsl(z) malleolus(x) malleolus(y) malleolus(z) epicondyle(x) epicondyle(y) epicondyle(z) trochanter(x) trochanter(y) trochanter(z) iliac(x) iliac(y) iliac(z) acromion(x) acromion(y) acromion(z)

In another code i draw the vector and the two vector: A(metatrsl(x,y,z),malleolus(x,y,z)) and B(epycondyle(x.y.z),malleolus(x,y,z)) are reverse. Vector A is a foot and vector B is shank, but the shank is in place of the foot, and the foot is in place of the shank. I need to calc the angle between this two vectors.

My question is really this part of the calculation is correct to calculate the angle of these two vectors.

atan2(norm(cross(arq(m,1:3)-arq(m,4:6),arq(m,7:9)-arq(m,4:6))),dot(arq(m,1:3)-arq(m,13:15),arq(m,7:9)-arq(m,4:6)))

Sorry for my confusion, it´s the first time i use this support. Thank you too for trying to understand the misunderstanding of my question