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One issue is that MATLAB is a hilariously inappropriate tool for any real software engineering, including robotics. What's worse is that it's just powerful enough to empower your traditional PE to be dangerous.
“..while the team did code in many fail-safes in other areas of the application, it unfortunately only contained data validation on valid numbers”
Well it’s not like I’ve never made a mistake but that’s a funny sentence!
I wonder if it's something like their out-of-bounds checks required true returns on a numeric comparison (e.g., if val < min ...) and since NaN-involved comparisons always return false...
That’s probably it exactly, I think something was just muddled in the way the article was written.