Re: Who and where is using octave?

[John Swensen]

We use it for 2-3 different research projects in the LIMBS lab at  
Johns Hopkins.  These are all on Linux machines.
1) Image capture, image processing, and control of a 6DOF robot arm  
for experiments in visual servoing
2) Image capture and controlling stimulus apparatus for experiments on  
sensorimotor integration in weakly electric fish
3) (In the works) Image capture and control algorithms for flexible- 
bevel tipped needle steering for percutaneous therapies

In general, people here use Matlab for simulations and most research  
work, because (1) they feel the plotting utilities are better (the  
recent work by a lot of people is quickly making that a non-issue),  
(2) they often use arcane functions in toolboxes not provided by  
Octave or OctaveForge, and (3) that is what they learned with and they  
are sticking to it.

However, when I was at Ball Aerospace, they never had enough Matlab  
licenses available and rather than wait around, I often used Octave  
when I couldn't get a license.  I even convinced the controls engineer  
I was working with who (for many of the reasons listed above) *only*  
used Matlab to at least make their code compatible with Octave so I  
didn't have to make a bunch of mods every time I was using Octave.

John Swensen

On Jan 19, 2008, at 6:45 AM, Alexander Verdyan wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am looking for a list of organiztions and univesities that use GNU  
> Octave, and what they use for.
> I need this info to show my management stuff, that Octave is in use  
> in more then 2-3 places.
> So far I wasn't able to find some kind of list that mentions where  
> Octave is being used or by whom.
> I'd be thankful if someone could send me some refernces, or maybe  
> tell what he/she is using it for.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex
>
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