I'm back from iREX with a review and slideshow you may find of interest

Hi, In my quest to track the business of robotics, I went to Tokyo for the International Robot Exposition (iREX) 2009 show last week. It was held at Tokyo Big Sight in Tokyo Bay - a monstrous convention center with multiple trade shows going on at the same time. Thousands of ernest, black suited young people attended. I missed Thanksgiving but it was a fun experience for me nevertheless. Learning to use the Metro; finding my way to the Apple Store; getting a haircut; repairing broken eye-glasses, slurping my ramen... all part of the adventure. I wrote a blog entry detailing the experience on Everything Robotic. To me, the key message that I carried back with me came from Rainer Bischoff (of EUROP and KUKA) who said, "Technology, economics and customer demand are re-shaping the future of robotics into one of service and human interaction." And I made a slideshow of my photos which I think you may like (although I'm not that great of a photographer). Here's the link to the video: http://www.therobotreport.com If you can think of a friend or two that might be interested in the state of robotics today, please forward this message and links to them. I'd appreciate it. Cordially, Frank Tobe THE ROBOT REPORT Tracking the business of robotics

MATLAB Digest – MATLAB to C; PID Control Design Made Easy

Training
Matlab Fundamentals -December 15-16, New Delhi
Simulink for System and Algorithm modeling - December 17-18, New Delhi

Technical Articles
PID Control Design Made Easy
Best Practices for a MATLAB to C Workflow

Books
Applied speech and audio processing: with MATLAB examples
Fluid Power engineering

MATLAB Virtual Conference Now available on demand Webinars:
Parallel Computing with MATLAB - December 2
Top Ten Features for Simulink and Stateflow in 2009 - December 8
MATLAB for C/C++ Programmers - December 9
Applied Data Analysis Using MATLAB - December 10

Complimentary Webinar: Embedded Code Generation and Verification for the Aerospace Industry

MathWorks India invites you to a free webinar;

Embedded Code Generation and Verification for the Aerospace Industry

10 Dec 2009
10:30 AM IST

This webinar starts with a review of how Real-Time Workshop® Embedded Coder™ generates high quality and efficient C/C++ code from Simulink® models, Stateflow® charts, and Embedded MATLAB™ functions for deployment on embedded applications, including flight certified systems. It then introduces how Embedded IDE Link™ MU (for Green Hills® MULTI®) can be used for building, optimizing and verifying the generated code.

The webinar then demonstrates important new technologies for code generation and verification involving aerospace and defense applications, including:
• Bidirectional model and code traceability
• Encapsulated C++ code generation to ease software integration
• Target optimized code for software deployment
• Processor-in-the-loop (PIL) testing for software verification
• Checking models and code for DO-178B certification

This webinar is primarily focused on people new to Model-Based Design and automatic code generation, but will also be of interest to those currently using Model-Based Design in previous releases.

A Q&A session will follow the presentation and demos.Register for this webinar.

We look forward to seeing you online on the 10th of December, 2009.