Various toolboxes including MATLAB and Simulink are provided free of charge.

MathWorks (kr.mathworks.com) announced today that it participated as an official sponsor of the '2016 Intelligent Model Car Competition' hosted by Hanyang University's Department of Future Automotive Engineering at Hanyang University's Olympic Gymnasium.

The Intelligent Model Car Competition has been held annually since 2003 to stimulate students' interest in the field of embedded control system design, a core technology of smart cars, and to cultivate talent in related fields. 100 teams from universities across the country compete with futuristic model cars that they have designed and built themselves over several months. MathWorks provided various toolboxes, including MATLAB and Simulink, which are optimal embedded control system solutions that can be utilized in the model car production process, free of charge for this competition.

The model cars, which the participating students created themselves, used sensors to detect the surroundings, analyzed the information collected by the built-in computer, and drove themselves along a given path, recognizing the driving line and maintaining a stable path with 'Lane Keeping Control', and 'Autonomous Emergency Braking', which recognized an obstacle that suddenly appeared in front and safely stopped the car, showed off key smart car technologies.

A total of 100 teams advanced to the finals in this competition, and through judging, one Infineon Grand Prize team (Hanyang University's 'A-Team'), one Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation Gold Prize team (Kyunghee University's 'Tracer'), and one MathWorks Silver Prize team (Kyunggi University's 'Just Did') were awarded. In addition, among the teams that submitted reports by creating model cars using software provided by MathWorks, two teams (Konkuk University's 'Dolbat' and Hanyang University's 'Woosungkkungkkotto') were selected for the MathWorks Special Award, receiving a cash prize of 1 million won and student versions of MATLAB and Simulink.

The students from Kyunghee University who won the MathWorks Silver Prize said in their acceptance speech, “This competition was a great opportunity to directly implement an embedded control system,” and “We were able to achieve good results by simulating theoretical content using MathWorks tools that utilize model-based design and reflecting the results in the model car design and manufacturing process.”

Jongmin Lee, CEO of MathWorks Korea, stated, “MathWorks provided software, training, and mentoring tailored to each competition so that students could learn and solve technical issues facing professional engineers through their participation in this student competition. We are helping the participating students experience a free design environment where they can apply the theories they learned in class to the competition problems using MathWorks products, which are used as industry-standard tools. We hope that this support will contribute to the development of SW experts and enhance competitiveness in the development of advanced technologies in the relevant fields.”