2017 Winter Project Week/Improve Matlab integration

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Key Investigators

Objective	Approach and Plan	Progress and Next Steps
Allowing the access to Matlab variables that are defined in a Matlab module once that module terminates, as if that code was run in the Matlab command line environment. Offer a more user-friendly interface to send matlab commands and display the results. Right now the way to do it is to go in MatlabCommander and to type the command in a LineEdit, after which the output result appears in another LineEdit. While it is functional, our end users have had difficulties handling it since the display isn't as nice as in a Matlab console. Offer a way to visualize the Matlab workspace variables just like in the Matlab environment: there is currently no way in MatlabBridge to see the variables of the current instance.	Discuss with Andras to better understand the way MatlabBridge work, and showcase an example where we can not access the variables defined in a Matlab module once it has ended. This will lead to a work allowing to address the first objective. Look into using a custom ctkConsole (like the python console) in order to mimic the console from the main Matlab environment, OR try to get the commandwindow command from Matlab to directly open up. Retrieve workspace from the Matlab instance after each command sent (or matlab module run) and display the variables and their values in a table node, OR try to get the workspace command from Matlab to directly open up.