MATLAB Expo 2025: Software-Defined Systems Drive Industrial Innovation

MATLAB Expo 2025 Korea: Opening New Horizons for Future Engineering MATLAB Expo 2025 Korea, hosted by MathWorks, was successfully held on the 8th at COEX in Seoul, with over 1,500 technology experts and customers in attendance, offering a glimpse into the future of engineering technology in Korea. In the keynote speech, Avi Nehemia, Director of Design Automation Software at MathWorks, delved deeply into the value and implementation methods of software-defined systems. He emphasized that a robust ‘digital thread’ can be established from requirements to testing through model-based design. He explained that an approach providing new functionalities without hardware changes, particularly through the use of AI, data-driven features, and cloud utilization, is emerging as a core driver for innovating product value in various fields such as automotive, industrial machinery, and medical systems. Following this, Jeong Byeong-chan, CEO of Hanwha Robotics, provided an overview of the present and future of robot technology under the theme ‘Robots: Recreating Daily Life and Industry through Innovation’. He predicted that robot technology is expanding beyond manufacturing into wide-ranging fields such as services, healthcare, and agriculture, and that its combination with artificial intelligence will have an unprecedented impact on the industrial ecosystem. This expo featured a diverse technological showcase, structured into six specialized tracks: Algorithm Development & AI, Electrification, Model-Based Design, AI Application Engineering, Mobility, and Wireless & Satellite. Leading Korean technology companies, including Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motor Company, SK Telecom, and Korea Electric Power Research Institute, participated, sharing real-world application cases of MATLAB and Simulink and offering practical insights. At the demo booths, innovative technologies from various industrial sectors were showcased. In the automotive sector, solutions for integrating model-based design into a DevOps environment and methods for building a CI environment, spanning from requirements management to system architecture design, software development, and verification, were introduced. In the wireless sector, visitors could experience realistic satellite scenario visualization using Unreal Engine and AI-based modeling techniques through hands-on demos, and directly observe code-based verification processes via the Polyspace product family, an integrated platform for static and dynamic verification. At the academic booth, Inha University's Embedded Control Lab attracted attention by showcasing its self-developed lightweight rapid control prototyping system and advanced control technologies. They explained how to design control systems and implement real-time controllers using Simulink-based block diagram programming, with the real-time control demonstration of a two-stage inverted pendulum system, utilizing optimal control and reinforcement learning-based control, receiving enthusiastic attention from attendees. Jongmin Lee, Country Manager of MathWorks Korea, stated, “This MATLAB Expo was a meaningful occasion to jointly explore the future of the domestic engineering sector.” He added, “MathWorks will continue to actively support technological advancements in key industrial fields such as AI, electrification, and mobility, thereby continuously contributing to strengthening the global competitiveness of Korean industries.”