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August 7th, 2012

Curiosity Lands

 All the geeks know that Curiosity has landed on Mars. I am not sure of the extent of the use of MATLAB/Simulink on this particular project, but I know that JPL is a “major user” of MATLAB. I got to see the rover testing lab before the last two made their successful trip. I like to think that some engineer at JPL watched this blog and used something they learned to get the rover to Mars. If you are that engineer, please e-mail me, I have a MATLAB t-shirt for you!

If you haven’t seen it yet, I encourage you to check out this great video from the folks at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory talking about the engineering challenges they faced:

The incredibly successful landing of Curiosity reminded me of this ad we ran to celebrate the role of MATLAB and Simulink in landing the last pair of Mars Rovers:

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By Doug Hull

Doug first used MATLAB in 1994, could not figure it out until he got some help in 1995. He is now dedicated to making sure that no one else wastes a year of their life not knowing MATLAB like he did.

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3 Responses to “Curiosity Lands”

  1. Tox replied on August 14th, 2012 at 15:12 UTC :

    Matlab? maybe
    but I thought they’re mostly involved in C/C++ and Python.

  2. doug replied on August 15th, 2012 at 08:04 UTC :

    Certainly, MATLAB is not the only tool, but it is on the workbench for sure.

  3. Sean de Wolski replied on August 16th, 2012 at 15:05 UTC :

    Day 5 Mars Mission update and go to 28:20.

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/08/10/sci-mars-day5-briefing.html?cmp=rss

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