Francisco asked . 2021-01-11

Use Filter Constants to Hard Code Filter

      I am trying to implement a real-time filter so am using MATLAB's butter() function to generate the needed [b,a] vectors
    [b,a] = butter(4,4/35,'low');

      Just to be clear I have used these generated vectors with the filter(a,b,data) function to successfully filter my data and it looks quite desirable. But as I am in the end trying to create a real time filter, I am trying to code this into a for-loop (for testing purposes). My code is as follows:

    for n=5:1:length(x)
        y(n) = b(1)*x(n)+b(2)*x(n-1)+b(3)*x(n-2)+b(4)*x(n-3)+b(5)*x(n-4)-a(2)*y(n-1)-a(3)*y(n-2)+a(4)*y(n-3)+a(5)*y(n-4);
    end

Can anyone tell me how I am incorrectly modeling the filter() command? I have also switched the a, b, column vectors (in case that was an issue). The above method just goes to infinity, and with a<->b the data just seems to be amplified.

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