How DuBois Area Robotics Used Model-Based Design to Win at BEST Robotics 2025
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Tanya Kuruvilla
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DuBois Area Robotics, a high school robotics club from Pennsylvania, shares their journey using MATLAB and Simulink (Model-Based Design) to compete in the 2025 BEST Robotics Championship. The article details how they applied professional engineering tools to design, simulate, and iterate on their robot (DB-15) for the competition, highlighting the educational value of model-based design in a high school setting and their success at the championship.
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· 3 pulledWe are DuBois Area Robotics, a public high school robotics club based in western-central Pennsylvania.
For BEST Robotics, we often include a few students from neighboring districts.
Using MATLAB and Simulink allowed us to bring DB-15 to life through Model-Based Design.
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