paper: Optimization and Analysis of Drivetrain Movement

[ThaddeusMaximus]

Originally Posted by Mr. Lim

Really inspiring work here. I remember I modeled optimal gear ratios for a robot that needed to drive up an incline without losing speed as a high school student in grade 11, using Maple for the very first time. I definitely didn't use ODEs back then... but Maple is a great tool.

(Insert blatant plug for a Canadian / University of Waterloo product)

If teams are looking for a good freeware alternative, SageMath is good. Not as pretty but it's a nice suite of tools that works.

https://cloud.sagemath.com/

We wrote equivalent code in it.