MOTOM toolbox: MOtion Tracking via Optotrak and Matlab

Zoltan Derzsi; Robert Volcic

doi:10.1016/j.jneumeth.2018.07.007

MOTOM toolbox: MOtion Tracking via Optotrak and Matlab

Zoltan Derzsi, Robert Volcic

Psychology

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Abstract

We present a Matlab toolbox that allows the user to control and collect data using Northern Digital's Optotrak system. The Optotrak is a modular motion capture system, which tracks the positions of infrared markers. It also supports grouping markers together as a single body. The body's position, orientation as well as all the marker position data can be obtained simultaneously. The installation, set-up and alignment procedures are highly automated, and thus require minimal human interaction. We provide additional scripts, functions, documentation and examples to help experimenters integrate the Optotrak system into experiments using recent 64-bit computers and existing Matlab toolboxes.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	129-134
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Neuroscience Methods
Volume	308
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2018.07.007
State	Published - Oct 1 2018

Keywords

Matlab
NDI
Northern digital
Optotrak 3020
Optotrak Certus
Toolbox
Virtual reality
Visuomotor

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Neuroscience

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