MATLAB / Simulink

[NovaOne]

Does any one know if if there is a similar book to this available in english or if it is worth translating?
MATLAB / Simulink model-based design and a two-legged robot simulation (ROBOT books) (book (paperback))
三田 宇洋 (著), 高島 博 (著), 宅島 章夫 (著), 田中 明美 (著) Mita宇洋 (Author), Hiroshi Takashima (Author), Akio Takushima (Author), Akemi Tanaka (Author)

Also is the student version of Matlab sufficient?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/MATLAB-Simulink-Student-Version-Release/dp/0979223903/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209885625&sr=8-1

[i-Bot]

You might take a look at Scilab/Scicos before you buy Matlab. This has a robotics toolbox too.

It is while since I used Matlab, but often I was not able to do things I wanted with the student edition, mainly because I needed items from toolboxes which were not included.

[NovaOne]

Thanks i-bot, I have installed it onto my Ubuntu machine, to play with:
I will start by working through: http://comptlsci.anu.edu.au/Scilab/primer.pdf
This also looks interesting: http://rtss.sourceforge.net/
Any more pointers welcome...

[i-Bot]

For Scicos try this:
http://www.scicos.org/TUTORIAL/tutorial.html

Also for the robotics toolbox this is good for translating between the Scicos and Simulink toolboxes:
http://rtss.sourceforge.net/docs/rtss-scicos.pdf

This is interesting, though detail is in Spanish:
http://loslocosrh-ev.blogspot.com/
Also checkout the Matlab Robotics toolbox information, since the Scilab/Scidos is closely based on this.

[NovaOne]

Thanks Is there anything you don't know about

[frank239]

i think Simulink is the best..........