How to Build Autonomous Anything

158 Pages·2017·11.61 MB·English

by  Gareth Thomas

How to Build Autonomous Anything
Gareth Thomas
© 2017 The MathWorks, In1c.
Focal Points
Everyone has access to MATLAB and Simulink
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Follow your passion
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There is more to MATLAB than you know
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Motivation
Everyone has access to MATLAB and Simulink
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– Install, explore and benefit from this for the rest of your life
Follow your passion
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– I made a career just because I loved MATLAB
There is more to MATLAB than you know
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– I wish my professors had told me this when I was at University
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Introduction to the Speaker
8 Years
later
Gareth Thomas
Masters in Electronic Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
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Control Theory and Signal Processing
Consultant at Altran CIS in Portugal
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Innovation Officer at Nokia Siemens Networks in Portugal
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Software Engineer at Oceanscan in Scotland
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Senior Application Engineer at MathWorks Benelux
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WW Academic Marketing Manager at MathWorks
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Business Development Manager at MathWorks
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I love quad copters… (& MATLAB)
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Electrical Engineering
What Chip is
under the hood?
How can I control
the flight
dynamics of this?
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Computer Science
Can I create an
App to control
the quad copter?
What Software
Architecture was
used to program
this?
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Mechanical Engineering
Is this the optimal
Mechanical
Design?
How Robust is
this?
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Civil Engineering
Can I survey
cities with this?
Would this help
monitor weak
spots in a
bridge?
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Telecommunication Engineering
How is this
connected to the
phone?
Should this not
be wifi?
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