Competition and Hackathon Winners
Aspiring engineers and scientists worldwide are winning competitions using MATLAB and Simulink—building technical skills and gaining valuable experience. Take a look at recent champions and their projects and be inspired to enter, compete, and possibly even take home a top prize.
Robotics
Ritsumeikan University
1st place: RoboCup Soccer Small Size League Division B - 2024
The Ri-one team utilized a Kalman filter in the SSL league to eliminate noise from the raw data, thereby improving the accuracy of their simulations. As a result, the team resolved issues such as the sudden loss of coordinate data received by the robots and unstable behavior during stops, significantly contributing to the team's victory.
Signal Processing
The University of Texas at Dallas
1st place: IEEE International Future Energy Challenge - 2024
The undergraduate team at UT Dallas used MATLAB and Simulink to develop a control loop for their Audio Amplifier capable of achieving minimal distortion and noise. They also used Simulink’s Frequency Response Estimator to ensure the system's stability.
Automotive
Rochester Institute of Technology
1st place: FSAE Michigan EV 2024
RIT Racing came in 1st place at the 2024 EV FSAE competition in Michigan. MATLAB's data processing capabilities enabled the team to analyze results from lap time simulations to set key vehicle targets for optimal performance. Furthermore, a custom data-driven powertrain model in MATLAB allowed us to confidently size our accumulator to last for a full endurance.
Automotive
University of California, Berkeley
3rd Place Overall, 2nd Place in AutoCross, 2nd Place in Endurance: Formula SAE Michigan Combustion 2024
The team used MATLAB to develop their in-house LapSim script which determined the optimum final drive ratio. MATLAB was also used to validate shifting tank size based on pressure applied and number of shifts required, model the torsional stiffness and vehicle dynamics relationship, and further analyze and interpret the physical test results. Other applications of MATLAB to improve their car engineering included center of pressure calculations, load calculations, and vector analysis.
Aerospace
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
1st place: Airbus Sloshing Rocket Workshop 2023
The AIRSLOTHS team from Naples used MATLAB to design the aircraft model and simulate its flight. The code managed both inertial and aerodynamical properties, giving the team the flexibility to adjust the parameters to maximize the range and altitude reached by the model.
Robotics
National University of Singapore
1st place: RoboSub 2023
Bumblebee Autonomous Systems, from NUS Singapore won the Maritime Robosub Challenge 2023. They used MATLAB for the simulation of controls and acoustics for the Autonomous Underwater vehicle 4.1. This allowed the team to fine tune the movement controls and acoustics model needed for the vehicle to complete tasks for the competition.
Mexico 2024
- April 25, 2024
ITAM, Mexico
- Winner: Team Nokstella, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
- First runner-up: Team LadyBug, CETYS University, Mexico
- Second runner-up: Team Aeroitam, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
ICAR 2023
- December 5, 2023
Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi
- Winner: Team AutoDR1, Abu Dhabi University
- First runner-up: Team Eyeliner, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Second runner-up: Team Breeze, Khalifa University
EMEA 2023
- October 27, 2023
Virtual
- Winner: Team QKH, ENSMA
- First runner-up: Team Mambonauts, TXT Group
- Second runner-up: Team Orville, Oxford University
2023 Sustainability and Renewable Energy Challenge
- 1st place: Selim Mustafa Karaoglu, TH Köln, Germany
- 2nd place: Jaidev Khalane, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India
- 3rd place: Mohamed Khaled, Karim El-lethy, Hazem Hossam, Nourhan Abd Elzaher, Salma Abdelbaset, Mayar Sayed, and Aya Hesham, Ain Shams University, Egypt
2023 Simulink Student Challenge
- 1st place: Dynamic Simulation of a Pendulum-Driven Spherical Rover
- 2nd place: Real-Time Prediction and Feedback of Grasp Types of a Prosthetic Using LSTM
- 3rd place: EKF-Bike-Multibody-Sensor-Fusion
2022 Simulink Student Challenge
- 1st place: Design and Development of a Hub Motor Hybrid Vehicle Using Simulink
- 2nd place: Vehicle Dynamics Multibody Model Using Simulink
- 3rd place: Look, Ma, No Electronics! Clockwork Venus Rover
MATHack Western Cape 2022
- 1st place: Bianca Harber, Gabrielle Liebenberg, and Rosanne Maritz, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Project name: Overstock No More!
Selfie Hacks II 2022
- Best Use of MATLAB Award: Nathan Fong and Stuart Fong, Queens University, Canada
- Project name: Hacking a YouTube Creator Assistant with MATLAB
HackMerced VII
- Best Use of MATLAB Award: Harshita Sharma, Birla Institute of Technology, India
- Project name: Sign Me Up! Sign Language Interpretation in MATLAB
