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Tracking data importer
Give it a CSV or Excel file of tracks or detections. Get data ready for MATLAB tracking tools.
Tracking data importer is a free AI skill for the job "Build and ship software". Give the instructions to an AI assistant that supports the required files and tools, then review its output.
Free · No account · BSD 2 Clause licence · Made by MathWorks · Level: advanced
Made by MathWorks. See the original on GitHub; we copied it as it is, with its licence.
What it does
Raw track logs from GPS, flight recorders, radar or cameras rarely load straight into MATLAB's tracking tools. This skill turns your CSV, Excel or text file into the exact format those tools expect, so you can replay trajectories, tune filters or feed a tracker. It first asks one thing: is this ground truth or sensor detections? Then it reads your real file, shows a summary of columns, units, object count and time span, and proposes a column mapping for you to confirm. It handles coordinate frames for geographic data, remaps IDs, sorts by time, writes plain MATLAB code, runs it and plots the result. You need MATLAB with the Sensor Fusion and Tracking Toolbox.
You give it
- A CSV, Excel or text file of tracks or detections
- What the data is: truth paths or sensor measurements
- Sensor type and units, if the file does not make them clear (optional)
- The coordinate frame you want out (optional)
You get
- A confirmed column mapping table
- MATLAB code that loads and converts your file
- Data in the right tracking format
- A plot to check the result
Use it when
- You have a GPS or flight log and want to replay it in a tracking tool.
- You have radar, lidar or camera detections in a spreadsheet and need to feed them to a tracker.
- Your trajectory data uses latitude and longitude and you need a local coordinate frame.
- You are not sure which MATLAB data format fits your recorded measurements.
How to use it
- Add it to your AI once: download it and add the folder to Claude, ChatGPT or Codex as a skill.
- Ask for the job in your own words. Your AI opens the skill when it fits.
- It works best when your AI can run MATLAB with Sensor Fusion and Tracking Toolbox.