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Politecnico di MilanoDipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB)
HAMSproject
Chiara Gattichiara1.gatti@mail.poimi.it
Guido Lanfranchiguido2.lanfranchi@mail.polimi.it
5. MARKETABILITYMay 10th, 2016
NECST Lab, Politecnico di Milano
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MATLAB
➢ Acronym of Matrix Laboratory
→ base element = matrices
➢ def: “MATLAB is a high-level language and interactive
environment for numerical computation, visualization, and
programming”
➢ A bit of history○ born in late ‘70s in University of New Mexico
○ founders: J.H. Wilkinson, G. Forsythe, J. Todd
http://www.mathworks.com/
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The MathWorks Inc
➢ the company is privately held
➢ more than 3500 employees(30% out of USA)
➢ Headquarter: Natick, Massachusetts, USA
➢ widespread all over the world!
➢ (Australia, China, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan,
South Korea, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United
Kingdom, United States)
http://it.mathworks.com/company/factsheet.pdf
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MathWorks market
➢ company turnover in 2015: USD $800 million
(more than 60% from out of USA)
➢ always profitable since foundation (in 1984)
➢ more than 500 third-party solution built on MATLAB and
Simulink
➢ more than 1700 MATLAB based books
(in 28 languages)
http://it.mathworks.com/company/factsheet.pdf
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MathWorks market
➢ worldwide users: more than 1 million
(more than 5.000 universities for teaching/research)
➢ MATLAB forum
○ 225.000 contributors
○ 120 answers per day
○ 25.000 downloads per day
○ 730 solvers per day
➢ collection of user stories
→ providing examples
http://it.mathworks.com/company/factsheet.pdf
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Partners / customers
Among the others...
http://it.mathworks.com/company/factsheet.pdf
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MathWorks market
➢ many different applicative domains:
○ Aerospace and Defense
○ Automotive
○ Biotech & Pharmaceutical
○ Communications
○ Electronics
○ Energy
○ Financial Services
○ Automation
○ Medical Devices
○ Software & Internet
○ Academia
http://it.mathworks.com/company/factsheet.pdf
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Customer’s
Requirements
Some examples
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«Mission on Mars»
Robot Challengefrom MATLAB
ROVER ON MARS
Project requirements:
- Good performances
explore quickly the environment
- Low power requirements
saving batteries
http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/home/http://www.mathworks.com/academia/student-challenge/mission-on-mars
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Project requirements:
- Good performances
explore quickly the environment
- Low power requirements
saving batteries
ROVER ON MARS
«Mission on Mars»
Robot Challengefrom MATLAB
http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/home/
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“Having a single, widely used
package in our industry that has
many capabilities for solving ordinary
differential equations as well as
optimization and statistical
capabilities is quite valuable. That is
why we use MathWorks tools.”
Anna Georgieva, Novartis
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“Having a single, widely used
package in our industry that has
many capabilities for solving ordinary
differential equations as well as
optimization and statistical
capabilities is quite valuable. That is
why we use MathWorks tools.”
Anna Georgieva, Novartis
And what about using this tools with
- higher performances
- lower power consumption
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QUESTIONS?
Contact us!
HAMSproject
hams.necst@gmail.com
chiara1.gatti@mail.polimi.it
guido2.lanfranchi@mail.polimi.it
www.facebook.com/hams.project
https://twitter.com/HAMS_project
http://www.slideshare.net/HAMSproject
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaovqRpUc7D_Uf2WJHL0rvA