During graduate studies there, I taught Model-Based Design in a Mechatronics course. Each team of students had to characterize a robot, model it in Simulink, design and tune a controller in simulation, generate HDL code and implement their controller on a FPGA, all using The MathWorks tools.

Thanks to this formation, I have been selected for internships at the Canadian Space Agency. They have been using Model-Based Design for a long time. Using Simulink, Stateflow and Real-Time Workshop I have been able to implement everything needed to control a robot with 2 arms, 7 degrees of freedom each, similar to Dexter (The hand of the Canadarm2 now in action on the Internal Space Station). An experienced engineering told me after this internship that without The MathWorks tools the work I did would have required many engineers and cost a lot more.

This is how I learned Model-Based Design!