Relationship to the old Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB

The Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB, Machine Vision Toolbox for MATLAB and the Spatial Math Toolbox for MATLAB were written by Peter Corke and started as part of his PhD research 1990-93 and maintained and extend over subsequent decades! This old code base will always be available on GitHib but is no longer being supported.

For this edition of the Robotics, Vision and Control book we chose to use functionality from a number of MathWorks Toolboxes and ship a much smaller Toolbox that contains only functions and classes that were not part of The MathWorks functionality. Many of these functions are based on Peter's older toolboxes but functions have been renamed to be consistent with MathWorks conventions, and updated to conform with modern MATLAB coding practice.

For the reader, the advantages are that:

• more of the required code base is supported by MathWorks, you can contact them for support
• the book-specific toolbox included in this repo (we call it the "RVC3 Toolbox") is smaller than the old Peter toolboxes, less to support, and it is supported now by Remo, Witek and Peter. Less code and more maintainers is a good thing!