VEX Cortex Microcontroller Support from Simulink

You can use Simulink with the VEX Cortex Microcontroller to design and simulate a robotic system. The VEX Cortex Microcontroller is required for the BEST (Boosting Engineering Science and Technology) Robotics competition. This high-school competition challenges teams to design and assemble a remotely-controlled VEX robot in six weeks. Approximately 11,000 students on 800 teams from across the United States participated in 2010.

Simulink support for the VEX Cortex Microcontroller used in BEST Robotics includes:

• Library of Simulink blocks for programming the VEX Cortex Microcontroller to work with servomotors, DC motors, switches, and VEX gamepad inputs
• Streamlined development interface and sample models
• Modeling of robot control algorithms in Simulink and Stateflow without the use of C/C++ programming
• Model simulation for algorithm verification
• Automatic code generation from the model, compilation with easyC, and download to the VEX Cortex Microcontroller