http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room Welcome to the Adept Scientific Press Room Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:31:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/02/05/new-maplesoft-project-for-toyota-leverages-symbolic-computation-in-control-systems-engineering/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/02/05/new-maplesoft-project-for-toyota-leverages-symbolic-computation-in-control-systems-engineering/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:56:32 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=5022
  Maplesoft’s (Waterloo, Canada) ongoing partnership with Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc has been expanded to include a new project. This project will see the leading car manufacturer use new symbolic computation methods in robust control design, with a strong focus on methods for linear, nonlinear and parametric systems. Maplesoft technology is [...]]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/02/05/new-maplesoft-project-for-toyota-leverages-symbolic-computation-in-control-systems-engineering/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/01/17/new-products-from-the-leader-in-low-cost-usb-data-acquisition-now-with-added-daqflex/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/01/17/new-products-from-the-leader-in-low-cost-usb-data-acquisition-now-with-added-daqflex/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:46:00 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=5010
  Measurement Computing Corporation (Norton, MA) has released two low-cost, multifunction USB DAQ devices. The 12-bit USB-1208FS-Plus and 14-bit USB-1408FS-Plus both offer eight analogue inputs with sample rates up to 50 kS/sec, two analogue outputs, 16 digital I/O and one counter. A complete range of software options is included with the new modules including out [...]]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/01/17/new-products-from-the-leader-in-low-cost-usb-data-acquisition-now-with-added-daqflex/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/01/17/maple-t-a-cloud-facilitates-new-ways-for-content-collaboration-and-sharing-between-users/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/01/17/maple-t-a-cloud-facilitates-new-ways-for-content-collaboration-and-sharing-between-users/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:31:15 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=5005
  Maplesoft™ (Waterloo, Canada), a leader in software products for technical education and research, has released the latest version of its popular testing and assessment tool, Maple T.A.™. Available from Adept Scientific (Letchworth, Herts), Maple T.A. 9 makes it easy for educators to leverage questions created by others and share their own content with the [...]]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/01/17/maple-t-a-cloud-facilitates-new-ways-for-content-collaboration-and-sharing-between-users/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/01/16/maple-t-a-case-study-use-of-maple-t-a-at-amsterdam-university-of-applied-sciences-increases-student-pass-rate-by-20-per-cent/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/01/16/maple-t-a-case-study-use-of-maple-t-a-at-amsterdam-university-of-applied-sciences-increases-student-pass-rate-by-20-per-cent/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:18:41 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=5017
Maplesoft’s online testing and assessment tool [Maple T.A.] opens up individual learning paths at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/01/16/maple-t-a-case-study-use-of-maple-t-a-at-amsterdam-university-of-applied-sciences-increases-student-pass-rate-by-20-per-cent/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/01/15/designing-a-humanoid-dynamic-robot-that-can-walk-run-and-jump/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/01/15/designing-a-humanoid-dynamic-robot-that-can-walk-run-and-jump/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:23:42 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=5033
Maplesoft has announced its collaboration with Engineered Arts, the company that designs and produces RoboThespian robots. Under the collaboration, MapleSim, which is available in the UK from Adept Scientific, is playing a critical role in the design and modelling of a new balancing and walking robot.]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/01/15/designing-a-humanoid-dynamic-robot-that-can-walk-run-and-jump/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/01/15/the-power-to-control-coding-with-vissimecd/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/01/15/the-power-to-control-coding-with-vissimecd/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:03:34 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=5001
  VisSim/Embedded Controls Developer™ (VisSim/ECD) from Visual Solutions Incorporated (VSI) (Westford, Massachusetts) generates efficient fixed point C code for a range of targets. VisSim/Embedded Controls Developer (VisSim/ECD) is an environment for model-based development of embedded control systems. VisSim makes it easy to construct block diagrams of both controllers and plants. Fast and accurate system simulation [...]]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/01/15/the-power-to-control-coding-with-vissimecd/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/01/10/delphin-data-acquisition-application-note-12/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/01/10/delphin-data-acquisition-application-note-12/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:15:12 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=5014
Delphin Top Message gives lift truck designers a productivity boost.]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/01/10/delphin-data-acquisition-application-note-12/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/01/06/project-helps-perfect-humanoid-walking-in-robots/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/01/06/project-helps-perfect-humanoid-walking-in-robots/#comments Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:26:36 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=5037
[Using MapleSim] T­he University of Manchester is carrying out a project to help perfect the process of ‘humanoid walking’ in robots. The new Centre for Interdisciplinary Computational and Dynamic Analysis (CICADA) at Manchester has been working with Professor Darwin Caldwell at the Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, who has been developing a compliant humanoid robot [...]]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/01/06/project-helps-perfect-humanoid-walking-in-robots/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/01/04/simulation-lifts-design-exercise-to-a-higher-level/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/01/04/simulation-lifts-design-exercise-to-a-higher-level/#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:29:29 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=5040
A Norwegian university research project is using computer models to predict the performance of complex offshore materials handling equipment. In the short term, the work is helping designers pick the best components for the job; ultimately, the aim is to automate more of the design process.]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2013/01/04/simulation-lifts-design-exercise-to-a-higher-level/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/17/simulation-tool-lets-humanoid-robot-run-and-jump/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/17/simulation-tool-lets-humanoid-robot-run-and-jump/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:21:23 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=5030
Modelling and simulation software [MapleSim] from Canadian firm MapleSoft is playing a critical role in the design and modelling of RoboThespian: a next generation, full size humanoid dynamic robot that can walk, run, jump and sing.]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/17/simulation-tool-lets-humanoid-robot-run-and-jump/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/12/vissim-case-study-electron-beam-curing-system-designed-with-vissimembedded-controls-developer/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/12/vissim-case-study-electron-beam-curing-system-designed-with-vissimembedded-controls-developer/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:10:25 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=4995
Energy Sciences – a subsidiary of Iwasaki Electric Corporation – designs and builds state-of-the-art energy curing systems for the packaging industry. Energy Sciences originally purchased VisSim/Embedded Controls Developer to design the controller for a highspeed labeling machine for such items as ice cream and orange juice containers.]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/12/vissim-case-study-electron-beam-curing-system-designed-with-vissimembedded-controls-developer/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/11/maple-case-study-rules-of-attraction/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/11/maple-case-study-rules-of-attraction/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:14:29 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=4993
Maple‘s multiprocessor support is helping to speed up and simplify the design of complex magnetic field control systems at Oxford Instruments.]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/11/maple-case-study-rules-of-attraction/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/10/maplesim-aids-in-the-design-of-robothespian-a-robot-that-walks-and-talks/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/10/maplesim-aids-in-the-design-of-robothespian-a-robot-that-walks-and-talks/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:25:08 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=4976
  Maplesoft (Ontario, Canada) has announced its collaboration with Engineered Arts Limited, a company that designs and produces the revolutionary RoboThespian™ robots. The current RoboThespian is a life-sized, programmable, humanoid robot designed to be used for entertainment and communication. It can talk and sing – and even recite Shakespeare. The next generation RoboThespian robot will [...]]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/10/maplesim-aids-in-the-design-of-robothespian-a-robot-that-walks-and-talks/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/06/case-study-nwa-quality-analyst-supports-nuclear-and-environmental-analysis-work/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/06/case-study-nwa-quality-analyst-supports-nuclear-and-environmental-analysis-work/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:10:55 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=4989
The sensitive and safety-critical nature of the work conducted by Babcock International makes it particularly important that the performance and calibration status of the instruments used in the lab is closely monitored. For many years, the lab has relied on Quality Analyst statistical process control (SPC) software from Northwest Analytics to help with this.]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/06/case-study-nwa-quality-analyst-supports-nuclear-and-environmental-analysis-work/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/06/maplesim-case-sudy-engineering-professor-uses-maplesim-to-introduce-more-exploratory-methods-of-teaching/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/06/maplesim-case-sudy-engineering-professor-uses-maplesim-to-introduce-more-exploratory-methods-of-teaching/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:09:39 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=4987
Dr James Andrew Smith, Electrical and Biomedical engineering professor at Ryerson University, Toronto, uses MapleSim to deliver an “inductive approach” to learning, allowing students to explore systems and derive equations from the behaviours they observe.]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/06/maplesim-case-sudy-engineering-professor-uses-maplesim-to-introduce-more-exploratory-methods-of-teaching/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/06/endnote-case-study-making-research-and-referencing-plain-sailing/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/06/endnote-case-study-making-research-and-referencing-plain-sailing/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:07:43 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=4985
Dr Sam Willis, a maritime historian and archaeologist, and author of nine books and numerous articles, considers EndNote a ‘must-have’ piece of time-saving software for personalised, scholarly research.]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/06/endnote-case-study-making-research-and-referencing-plain-sailing/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/05/maple-t-a-case-study-use-of-maple-t-a-at-the-university-of-guelph-reduces-drop-out-rates-by-more-than-10/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/05/maple-t-a-case-study-use-of-maple-t-a-at-the-university-of-guelph-reduces-drop-out-rates-by-more-than-10/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:06:00 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=4983
Recently, faculty and staff at the University of Guelph embarked upon an experiment to statistically determine the impact on students of using Maple T.A.]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/05/maple-t-a-case-study-use-of-maple-t-a-at-the-university-of-guelph-reduces-drop-out-rates-by-more-than-10/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/01/from-model-to-machine/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/01/from-model-to-machine/#comments Sat, 01 Dec 2012 16:17:52 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=5027
Researchers in Norway are using models to predict the performance of complex offshore handling equipment.]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/12/01/from-model-to-machine/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/11/29/maplesim-case-study-modern-techniques-bring-system-level-modelling-to-the-automation-industry/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/11/29/maplesim-case-study-modern-techniques-bring-system-level-modelling-to-the-automation-industry/#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:02:56 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=4981
Combining MapleSim and B&R Automation Studio allows for the efficient implementation of system-level modeling into the B&R toolchain.]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/11/29/maplesim-case-study-modern-techniques-bring-system-level-modelling-to-the-automation-industry/feed/ 0 http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/11/29/combination-of-maplesim-and-br-automation-studio-enables-dramatic-reduction-in-development-time/ http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/11/29/combination-of-maplesim-and-br-automation-studio-enables-dramatic-reduction-in-development-time/#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:23:10 +0000 admin http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/?p=4972
Maplesoft™ (Waterloo, Canada) has announced the release of a new product that allows engineers to integrate high-performance, multidomain system models from MapleSim into B&R Automation Studio.  Available from Adept Scientific (Letchworth, Herts), the MapleSim Connector for B&R Automation Studio is the result of a partnership between Maplesoft and B&R, the global leader in industrial automation, [...]]]> http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/media_room/2012/11/29/combination-of-maplesim-and-br-automation-studio-enables-dramatic-reduction-in-development-time/feed/ 0