Low Pass Filter Accelerometer Data

Hi All,

attached it my code for gathering xyz accelerometer data from a serial stream. The code works well, plotting x,y,z data along with the vector sum of all three plots. However, I would like to add a simple low pass filter to smooth the data out a bit, which is causing me some difficulties,

cut_off=1e-3/delay/2;
order=16;
h=fir1(order,cut_off);

% start time tic;

loop = 0; while ishandle(graph1)

   xyz = fscanf(s, '%f %f %f')'; 

   if (loop < 10)
       loop = loop + 1;
       continue;
   elseif (loop == 10)
       loop = 0;
   end

   if(~isempty(xyz))
       index = index + 1;
       time(index) = toc;

       if (numel(xyz) < 3)
          continue;
       else
           x(index) = ((xyz(1, 1))+23)/258;
           y(index) = ((xyz(1, 2))+8)/260;
           z(index) = ((xyz(1, 3))+26)/253;
           vs(index) = sqrt((((xyz(1, 1))+26)/253)^2+(((xyz(1, 2))+26)/253)^2+(((xyz(1, 3))+26)/253)^2);
           %vsf(index)=conv(vs(index),h);
       end
   end
end

fclose(s); end

I'm getting the following message 'In an assignment A(:) = B, the number of elements in A and B must be the same'

How do I go about implementing the LPF correctly ?

Thanks,

[Jose Marques]

Can you fix the code layout? There is some setence that is not in code format