Earlier last month I had the opportunity to interview Paul Barnard, application engineering manager for MathWorks. I wanted to learn more about the software behind these Autonomous Air Mobility vehicles that are becoming more and more influential every year. Specifically, I wanted to know about the software behind them, and the challenges engineers are facing…
Mind over Machine: Paul Barnard of MathWorks on how to make your career take flight
Welcome to another edition of Mind over Machine, the video series where Design World gets smart answers from smart people on how to take your engineering career to the next level. In this video, DW managing editor Mike Santora speaks with MathWorks’ Application Engineering Manager Paul Barnard. Barnard has over 30 years of experience in…
Video: How to make an AAM vehicle fly
Design World recently spoke with MathWorks’ application engineering manager Paul Barnard about some of the key challenges for engineers designing software for Advanced Air Mobility Vehicles. Perhaps the greatest barrier to commercialization is creating systems that are flexible enough to evolve with shifting vehicle architectures while still being rigorous enough to acquire airworthiness certification. In…
Mind over Machine: Graham Dudgeon on the allure of AI and the need for real people
In this first edition of our new video segment, Mind over Machine, DW managing editor Mike Santora speaks with MathWorks’ Product Manager for Electrical Technology, Dr. Graham Dudgeon. Dr. Dudgeon gives us some valuable advice from his career. Advice that you will not find from an AI search. Watch the video below for the full story.…
DW interviews Dr. Graham Dudgeon of MathWorks about EVs, the electrical grid, and more
In this video, Design World managing editor Mike Santora interviews MathWorks’Consultant Product Manager for Electrical Technology, Dr. Graham Dudgeon. Dudgeon covers the EV grid challenge with bi-directional charging, the trends driving demand for vehicle-to-grid charging, and how this helps utilities better manage grid complexity.
The top ten free engineering math software packages
Numerous open-source software packages now provide engineering math capabilities and go easy on the pocketbook. Leland Teschler • Executive Editor The Mars Climate Orbiter made headlines back in 1999 when it approached Mars on a trajectory bringing it too close to the planet and wound up either destroyed in the Mars atmosphere or orbiting the…
MathWorks adds support for NVIDIA GPU Cloud, DGX systems
MathWorks today announced the availability of its new GPU-accelerated container from the NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC) container registry for DGX Systems and other supported NGC platforms. Researchers and developers can now use the deep learning workflow in MATLAB and leverage multiple GPUs in NVIDIA DGX Systems, or on supported cloud service providers, and select NVIDIA…
MathWorks Introduces WLAN System Toolbox for MATLAB
MathWorks introduced WLAN System Toolbox, providing standard-compliant functions for the design, simulation, analysis, and testing of wireless LAN communications systems. WLAN System Toolbox expands capabilities of MATLAB for wireless development by providing configurable physical layer waveforms for IEEE 802.11ac and 802.11b/a/g/n standards. The system toolbox provides reference designs to enable exploration of baseband specifications, and…
MathWorks Announces Release 2015b of the MATLAB and Simulink Product Families
MathWorks introduced Release 2015b (R2015b) with a range of new capabilities in MATLAB and Simulink. In addition to new features in MATLAB and Simulink, R2015b includes updates and bug fixes to 83 other products. MATLAB Product Family MATLAB updates include: New execution engine that runs MATLAB code faster Graph and directed graph functions for creating,…
MathWorks introduces major new release of MATLAB
MathWorks announced a major new release of MATLAB as part of its Release 2014b that includes a new graphics system, big data capabilities and improved collaboration features for packaging and sharing code, and for source control integration. With these new capabilities, engineers and scientists in all major industries can more easily analyze and visualize their…
MathWorks introduces Simulink Real-Time, offering complete, integrated Real-Time simulation and testing
MathWorks has announced the introduction of Simulink Real-Time into the Simulink product family. Available with the company’s Release 2014a (R2014a), Simulink Real-Time enables engineers to build, test, and run real-time applications from Simulink models on dedicated target computer hardware connected to their physical systems, providing a complete end-to-end real-time simulation and testing solution. Combining the…
Software Improves Printing Perfection
Generally, Agfa’s Dotrix Modular inkjet printer did a good job delivering full-color images quickly. However, when the company decided that it wanted a machine with higher color repeatability and better precision,it turned to the Centre for Concepts in Mechatronics (CCM) to design a custom controller that would achieve the goal, while keeping development time and…
Software Simplifies PID Control Design and Tuning
By Murad Abu-Khalaf, Rong Chen & Arkadiy Turevskiy, The Mathworks, Inc., Natick, Mass. Tuning a PID (proportional-integral-derivative) controller appears easy, requiring you to set just three gain values; a proportional, integral, and derivative gain. In fact, safely and systematically finding the perfect set of gain values for a control system can be a complex task.…