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Welcome to the MathWorks-Excellence-in-Innovation wiki!

The MathWorks Excellence in Innovation program provides a list of challenging projects with industry relevance centered around technology trends. Motivation for educators and students might be:

• Compelling projects based on industry needs
• Gaining skills and experience on industry relevant problems
• MathWorks endorsements and gadgets

Although the program has been created to target educators and students, in particular to provide a list of projects that can be used as capstone projects for senior design classes or as master or PhD theses, anyone, including industry professionals, can work on these projects if they wish.

How to participate

Select a project you want to work on and fill out this form using the project number that is at the top and at the bottom of the project description page (if you want to select more projects at the same time, please fill out one form for each project). You will then receive a confirmation email with more information and a summary of the data you entered in the form. You will be given a deadline (four months from the signup date) but this is not a strict deadline, just let us know if you need more time. We use the deadline to check if there is still interest in pursuing the project after the four month time has passed, in case we have not heard from you earlier. If you work in a team, please have only one person, the point of contact, signing up for the project. The name of the other team members will be provided by the point of contact when filling out the submission form so that everyone will receive the rewards.

Instructions for project solution submission

If you have already registered your intent to complete one of the projects (via this link), follow the steps below for completing your project and become eligible for the rewards:

1. Create a GitHub repository and select the open source BSD 2-Clause or MIT license to share your solution publicly.
2. Upload your MATLAB and/or Simulink solution into your repository. We suggest to complete these first steps as you start working on your project to ease collaboration with your team mates and for code version control.
3. Let us know here that your solution is ready for evaluation by including a link to the repository. Make sure you use the same email address when you first registered.

If you submit your solution following these steps, we will review it and if the project requirements are satisfied you will receive the rewards as outlined below and when you registered.

Rewards

Below is the list of rewards we currently provide for accepted solutions:

• Official MathWorks certificate of completion
• Endorsement for positions at MathWorks (internship, full time, student ambassador)
• LinkedIn recommendation
• MathWorks T-shirts

Discussion Board

To provide help as you work on the project, we have created the discussion forum to allow you to ask any questions and/or share any ideas or doubts. MathWorks engineers will do their best to respond promptly. You can also use the discussion board to seek for collaborators. Each project has a dedicated discussion forum that can be accessed from the project description page directly. Please do not hesitate to use the forum to ask any questions!

Current project submissions

Here you can find the list of the projects that have received at least one submission and corresponsing link.

Portable Charging System for Electric Vehicles	Current submissions
Path Planning for Autonomous Race Cars	Current submissions
Behavioral Modelling of Phase-Locked Loop using Deep Learning Techniques	Current submissions
Speech Background Noise Suppression with Deep Learning	Current submissions
Deep Learning for UAV Infrastructure Inspection	Current submissions
Signal Coverage Maps Using Measurements and Machine Learning	Current submissions
MIMO Engine Airpath Control	Current submissions
Face Detection and Human Tracking Robot	Current submissions
Voiced Controlled Robot	Current submissions
Traffic Data Analysis for Modeling and Prediction of Traffic Scenarios	Current submissions
Aggressive Maneuver Stabilization for a Minidrone	Current submissions
Machine Learning for Motor Control	Current submissions
Autonomous Navigation for Vehicles in Rough Terrain	Current submissions

Video Tutorials

We have recently created a playlist, in our YouTube channel, of video tutorials for some of the submitted solutions to help get a better understanding on how the solutions work and how to run them. A huge thanks to all the students who volunteered for making such useful videos. If you have submitted your solution or still working on it and are interested in submitting a video tutorial of your project, please let us know. We will give you more gadgets as a sign of gratitude. Moreover, the videos will be advertised on several marketing channels including social networks, thus, your work will get high visibility important to lunch your future career!

YouTube playlist

More videos to come soon!

Propose your own project ideas

If you have ideas for new projects with industry relevance and interested in posting them on this repository, please let us know using the forms below.

• If you are faculty, let us know about your interest in nominating a new project here.
• If you are in industry and interested in nominating a new project contact us here.

Contact us

Use the same two forms from the section above to contact us by specifying the type of inquiry.

Feedback

If you have ideas or feedback to improve the MathWorks Excellence in Innovation program, please provide comments here. We very much value your feedback and any suggestion is much appreciated!