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getElementPosition

System object: phased.PartitionedArray
Package: phased

Positions of array elements

Syntax

POS = getElementPosition(H)

Description

POS = getElementPosition(H) returns the element positions in the array H.

Input Arguments

H

Partitioned array object.

Output Arguments

POS

Element positions in array. POS is a 3-by-N matrix, where N is the number of elements in H. Each column of POS defines the position of an element in the local coordinate system, in meters, using the form [x; y; z].

Examples

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Obtain the positions of the six elements in a partitioned array.

array = phased.PartitionedArray('Array',phased.URA('Size',[2 3]),...
    'SubarraySelection',[1 0 1 0 1 0; 0 1 0 1 0 1]);
pos = getElementPosition(array)
pos = 3×6

         0         0         0         0         0         0
   -0.5000   -0.5000         0         0    0.5000    0.5000
    0.2500   -0.2500    0.2500   -0.2500    0.2500   -0.2500