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Meet MATLAB and Simulink Robotics Arena team members, Sebastian Castro and Connell D’Souza, as they discuss designing a robotic system and the support provided to robotics student competition teams.

MATLAB and Simulink Robotics Arena: Introduction to Robotic Systems

Meet MATLAB and Simulink Robotics Arena team members, Sebastian Castro and Connell D’Souza, as they discuss designing a robotic system and the support provided to robotics student competition teams.

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Learn how to design interactive MATLAB apps to communicate with ROS enabled robots and simulators.

MATLAB and Simulink Robotics Arena: MATLAB Apps with ROS

Learn how to work with the Mobile Robotics Simulation Toolbox on the MATLAB Central File Exchange.

MATLAB and Simulink Robotics Arena: Getting Started with the Mobile Robotics Simulation Toolbox

Learn how MATLAB, Simulink, and Robotics System Toolbox can help you design joint torque controllers for robotic manipulation and grasping tasks.

MATLAB and Simulink Robotics Arena: Controlling Robot Manipulator Joints

Create a model for a piece of hardware from input and output data using the System Identification app. Connell D'Souza and Kris Fedorenko explain the workflow from data gathering to model evaluation.

MATLAB and Simulink Robotics Arena: From Data to Model

Join Mark Schwab and Connell D'Souza as they demonstrate the use of the Filter Designer app and interactively design filters for digital signal processing that can be implemented in MATLAB or Simulink.

MATLAB and Simulink Robotics Arena: Introduction to Filter Design

Accelerate the design of robot manipulator algorithms by using the Robotics Systems Toolbox functionality and integrating robot models with simulation tools to program and test manipulation tasks.

MATLAB and Simulink Robotics Arena: Designing Robot Manipulator Algorithms

Join Sebastian Castro and Connell D’Souza as they discuss techniques in Simulink to design and deploy multirate and multiplatform robotics algorithms with the Robot Operating System (ROS).

MATLAB and Simulink Robotics Arena: Designing Distributed Systems with ROS

Build apps with MATLAB to automate repetitive interactive code. Sebastian Castro and Connell D'Souza from the Robotics Arena demonstrate building interactive apps using App Designer.

MATLAB and Simulink Robotics Arena: Building Apps with MATLAB and App Designer

Follow Joshua Williams from Cornell University Unmanned Air Systems (CUAir) as he demonstrates the use of a genetic algorithm to optimize airframe sizing for model airplanes.

MATLAB and Simulink Robotics Arena: Optimizing Airframe Sizing

Simulation is a great way to test and tune control algorithms for quadcopters. Julien Cassette talks about using Simulink, Robotics Operating System (ROS), and Gazebo to simulate quadcopter missions from student competitions.

MATLAB and Simulink Robotics Arena: Simulating Quadcopter Missions

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