# The Martian – Part 3 – Optimizing the Trajectory

Posted by Guy Rouleau,

After finding the launch date of the mission and putting together a simulation of the spacecraft trajectory, it's time to see how we can optimize this trajectory.... read more >>

# The Martian – Part 2 – Simulating the Spacecraft Trajectory2

Posted by Guy Rouleau,

In last week's post, I demonstrated how we can use MATLAB to find the launch date of the Ares 3 crew from the book The Martian, by Andy Weir.... read more >>

# The Martian: Can you save Mark Watney? (Part 1)4

Posted by Guy Rouleau,

About a year ago, I read the book The Martian, by Andy Weir. I really enjoyed the story, with all the technical details of how Mark Watney solves one problem after another to survive alone on Mars.... read more >>

# Teacher’s Pet Students’ Robotics Challenge – Enter today for a chance to win 3-D printer1

Posted by Guy Rouleau,

Today my colleague Madhu Govindarajan is here to talk about the Teacher’s Pet Students’ Robotics Challenge... read more >>

# A MATLAB vs. Simulink battle? I’m in!7

Posted by Guy Rouleau,

When I saw the latest post by Matt Tearle on Steve's blog, I had to do something.... read more >>

# Hyperloop: Not so fast!29

Posted by Guy Rouleau,

This week Matt Brauer is back to describe work he did to analyze the trajectory of the Hyperloop proposal. This is a key input to the Hyperloop Simulink models we are building.... read more >>

# Hyperloop Model Architecture: We want your feedback!5

Posted by Guy Rouleau,

We had some fun in our last post about the Hyperloop open source transportation system, but we didn't get much into the specifics. This week we begin to move things forward.... read more >>

# Don’t Engineer The Hyperloop in a Vacuum2

Posted by Guy Rouleau,

Since it was released in August, the Hyperloop proposal by Elon Musk generated a lot of interest. Reactions were both positive and negative. As you can imagine, it also triggered a lot of discussions at Mathworks.... read more >>