Help dog chasing a man in matlab

[center15]

I need help? can anybody help me? I have to use Matlab. I am giving details of problem.

-a man starts in some initial location (xm,ym) and moves with a constant speed along the straight line of the predefined angle.
-a dog starts in another initial location (xd,yd) and moves towards a man with a constant speed in such a way that in each step it moves directly along the line connecting the current positions of a dog and a man
-the algorithm should terminate after the man’s move, if the distance between the man and the dog allows the dog to catch the man in its next step
-extra marks will be given if your implementation allows setting not only the initial velocity, but also the accelerations of both man and a dog.
-the algorithm must output the number of steps in which the dog catches the man.


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[Crosson]

Try to indicate what you need help with.

You will use a for loop to go through time steps, and each step you will update the position of the dog and the man according to their velocities.

 

[robphy]

Sounds like a discretized version of the Pursuit Curve
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PursuitCurve.html

 

[center15]

I know that but how can I write kods in matlab?