TECHNICAL COMPUTING CAMP 2021

The eighth annual meeting of supporters of technical calculations and simulations Technical Computing Camp was again held this year in the Rakovec hotel on the Brno dam.

Most of the presented materials and examples can be found on other bookmarks of this archive page.

Unfortunately, the programme and the course of the meeting were also partially affected by the current situation in relation to measures against the spread of the coronavirus. Again, we had to do without the physical participation of our colleagues from MathWorks and also the number of participants from Slovakia was smaller than in previous years. Overall, however, the participation was at the level of last year's – almost 140 people attended the event!

Colleagues Jaroslav Jirkovský and Michal Blaho introduced us to the news that the year 2021 brought in the MATLAB / Simulink system. In terms of application areas, this year we got into physical modelling, development of autonomous systems, wireless communication systems and the use of artificial intelligence in signal processing. Lubor Zháňal introduced us to a completely new tool for displaying dynamic systems in virtual reality environment using the game engine – 3D Foundation.

Martina Mudrová introduced us to the news that MATLAB offers in the field of education. 16 Czech and Slovak universities already benefit from university-wide licenses. MathWorks is constantly expanding the range of teaching materials and online courses that are available free of charge for students and teachers of these universities. All school multi-licenses, including the PASS secondary school licenses, can also be used on private computers and from home, allowing schools to effectively distance learning.

The possibilities of the COMSOL Multiphysics program Martin Kožíšek demonstrated this time on a surprising example of solving a way through a maze.

The block of lectures of my colleagues ended with Tomáš Fridrich's con­tribution on the use of dSPACE tools in the development of systems for autonomous driving of vehicles.

At this year's meeting, the following users shared their experience using our tools:

• Messrs. Ivo Vodička and Ondřej Harvan from Digiteq Automotive introduced a workplace for automated testing of automotive control units built on the dSpace Scalexio platform.
• Mr. Milan Kertész from Schaeffler Kysuce informed about how systematic use of the Model-Based Design method can help suppliers in the automotive industry to cope with the demands for rapid mechatronization of all manufactured components and systems.
• Mr Petr Semotam from Siemens introduced an application for the rapid detection of defective engine block castings using neural networks.
• Mr. Patrik Kováčik from the University of Žilina introduced us to the teaching platform ReEducate and the educational channel „Materials pre strojárov“, where MATLAB is used as a basic means for calculations and simulations.
• Mr. Robert Grepl from Mechsoft introduced the application TRAMotion, which solves the kinematic analysis of the movement of the rolling stock with a focus on the calculation of the movement envelope.
• Messrs. Jiří Minarik and Petr Liškář from Eaton company shared with the participants their experience with working on a virtual model of electric vehicle dynamics.
• Their lecture was followed by Mr. Daniel Youssef from Garrett Motion, who introduced a framework for non-linear predictive driving for car control units.

The official part of Thursday's program was closed in a lighter tone by an online transmission from the Italian studio of our colleagues Alex Tarchini and Marco Rossi from MathWorks, who prepared for us a program in the style of the Czechoslovak film weekly on the topic of the use of the MATLAB program in science, culture and sport.

We spent Thursday evening discussing good food and drink on the terrace of the hotel.

On Friday morning, after a warm-up quiz, we included a lecture by my colleague Matouš Lorence, who presented us with several possibilities of integration of the multiphysical FEM model into MATLAB and Simulink environments. The possibility of linking the COMSOL Multiphysics and MATLAB / Simulink tools is a strong and unique, albeit still little used feature of these programs.

Four contestants participated in the competition for the best user project this year. The biggest favor of the audience went to Messrs. Ondřej Mikulenko and Ondřej Richter from Brno University of Technology, who demonstrated the Solar Tracker mechatronic platform for monitoring the light source. The list of projects, their description and the complete results of the competition can be found here >>>

Simultaneously with the competition, the application engineers of Humusoft prepared a non-competitive show of their own projects, their description can be found here >>>

We would like to invite you who work with our tools to participate in next year's contest! The contest is open to all users of MATLAB, COMSOL Multiphysics or dSPACE systems, whether they use them in the corporate sphere, in the studio or at home.

Before the announcement of the competition, Miss Anna Pavelková was given space, who introduced the Summer School of Mechatronics, organized by the Mechatronic Laboratory of the Institute of Mechanics of Bodies, Mechatronics and Biomechanics of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of BUT.

At the end of the camp, after lunch, we again included the Creative Workshop, where you could sit down at the computers and try out solutions for several prepared tasks. There was also time for further discussions and consultations with our colleagues.

We thank the speakers, contestants and all other participants for their contribution to the success of the event. We were honored to also be able to commemorate the 30th anniversary of our company in your company. We look forward to meeting you again!

Please enter the date of next year's Technical Computing Camp in your calendars: September 8–9, 2022!