plotting X and Y coordinates over time

Hi, I have a data containing X and Y coordinates which I'd like to plot them over fixed time intervals. I tried to use linear interpolation but it doesn't work. Can anyone help me with this please.

Xp = [1:0.25:50693];
yp =interp1(X,Y,Xp,'linear');
figure
plot(X,Y,'o');
hold on
plot(Xp,yp,'r-');
xlabel('X');
ylabel('Y');
title('X and Y positions')
grid on

[Dyuman Joshi]

What exactly is not working? Do you not get the intended result or are you getting an error?

[sahar daraei]

I get an error. Also It says the sample must be unique

[Dyuman Joshi]

Are there any repeating values in your data? That causes the error

X=[1 1 2 3 4 5 5]; %repeating values
Y=[2 3 4 5 6 7 8];
%you can check with repeating values in Y as well, it will give the same error
Xp=1:0.25:2.5;
Yp =interp1(X,Y,Xp,'linear')

Error using matlab.internal.math.interp1
Sample points must be unique.

Error in interp1 (line 188)
VqLite = matlab.internal.math.interp1(X,V,method,method,Xqcol);

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

The data were not supplied, however it quite probably works correctly. You are asking it to do a linear interpolation, probably to a finer ‘x’ resolution, and it does exactly that.

The plots would appear to be the same because the method chosen is 'linear'. If you chose a different interpolation method, the plots might appear to be different.

EDIT — (31 Jul 2022 at 17:30)

To make the sample points unique:

X = sort(randi(50,100,1))

X = 100×1

1 1 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 5

Y = randi(90, 100, 1)

Y = 100×1

81 84 32 46 61 9 42 78 32 81

[Ux,i1] = unique(X)

Ux = 43×1

1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

i1 = 43×1

1 3 5 9 12 14 15 16 18 19

X = Ux;
Y = Y(i1);

Xp = [1:0.25:50693];
yp =interp1(X,Y,Xp,'linear');
figure
plot(X,Y,'o');
hold on
plot(Xp,yp,'r-');
xlabel('X');
ylabel('Y');
title('X and Y positions')
grid on

It would help to have the actual data, however this illustrates the concept.

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