Overview

This tutorial will guide you to install Matlab with the appropriate support toolboxes

MathWorks installer (Windows or macOS)

1. Download/Execute the R2025a installer.
2. Sign in.
3. Choose the Robocup license provided.

Toolbox Selection

MATLAB depends on a number of toolboxes for additional functionality. If you wanted to run say a function from one of these and it did not work, it would indicate you have not successfully installed the toolbox. These will be our main toolboxes:

• Robotics System Toolbox: path planning, mapping, kinematics, dynamics, localization; Gazebo co-sim hooks.
• ROS Toolbox: ROS/ROS 2 pub/sub/services/actions from MATLAB/Simulink; analyze bags; generate standalone C++ (and CUDA) ROS nodes.
• Computer Vision Toolbox: detection/segmentation pipelines; YOLOv2/v3/v4 APIs and pretrained models.
• Deep Learning Toolbox: layers/training/inference; required by the YOLO APIs.
• Parallel Computing Toolbox: multi-core and GPU acceleration (Windows/Linux with NVIDIA).
• Coder products (MATLAB/Simulink/Embedded, GPU Coder): deploy C++/CUDA ROS nodes and embedded code.