Wolfram technologies include thousands of built-in functions that let you:

• Model and test complex systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles, space robotics, and aircraft dynamics with Wolfram SystemModeler
• Quickly prototype aircraft designs and turn them into 3D models
• Automatically compute design quantities, including closed-loop transfer functions, PID parametrizations, and more
• Compute the optimal controls needed to minimize fuel use or travel time
• Fit tire skid data to determine parameters for anti-skid algorithms or design aircraft for safe gear-up landings
• Perform aerodynamic, structural mechanics, and other numeric and symbolic calculations
• Model airplane approaches on parallel runways, introduce errors, and study the statistics of near misses
• Perform system-level design and optimization of an entire aircraft to meet safety regulations
• Create prototypes from mathematical models of fundamental equations of motion and transform them into C code to work with your current system
• Use model analysis to solve problems early, before expensive cockpit simulations or flight tests
• Analyze flight data before and after a mission to compare performance to predicted behavior
• Prototype new control systems using symbolic capabilities to derive dynamic equations
• Model the behavior of new lightweight materials for aerospace manufacturing
• Predict failure of components or subsystems with built-in reliability analysis functionality

Does your current tool set have these advantages?

• Free-form linguistic input produces immediate results without the need for syntax
  Unique to Wolfram technologies
• Symbolic as well as numeric calculations to manipulate numbers, equations, or pieces of code, improving accuracy or creating reusable models
  Matlab's built-in routines only handle numeric calculations
• Fully automated precision control and arbitrary precision arithmetic to ensure accurate results
  Matlab and other systems relying on machine arithmetic can show critical errors due to numerical accuracy failure
• One integrated system to scrub, filter, and visualize data with any kind of analysis
  Tecplot 360 graphics must be exported to other programs for presentation or publication
• Analyze and optimize designs in one system, using built-in constrained and unconstrained optimization routines
  Matlab requires an extra-cost toolbox and Pro/Engineer requires the extra-cost Pro/Mechanica add-on for optimization
• Instant interactivity for creating tools that provide visual feedback to make debugging and testing innovative instrumentation easier
• Wavelet transforms, filtering, and more built in to a single computational engine
  Matlab and Mathcad require purchasing additional software for wavelet capabilities
• Automated algorithm selection to get accurate results quickly—sometimes switching mid-calculation for further optimization
  Other systems like Matlab make you analyze your equations manually to determine which function to apply
• Choose from procedural, functional, and rule-based programming paradigms to create efficient code
  Other computation environments use predominantly procedural languages