Over a span of two years, SBEL supported a NASA project for the upcoming VIPER mission scheduled to go to the Moon in November 2024. The lab contributed advanced terramechanics simulations run in Chrono. These …
Year: 2024
SBEL contributes a simulation-in-robotics paper on arxiv which provides a simulation methodology to rank the success of control policies deployed in reality
SBEL members Harry Zhang, Stefan Caldararu, Aaron Young, Alexis Ruiz, Huzaifa Unjhawala, Ishaan Mahajan, Sriram Ashokkumar, Nevindu Batagoda, Zhenhao Zhou, Luning Bakke, and Dan Negrut posted a new simulation-in-robotics paper on arxiv titled “A Study …
SBEL to host the 12th edition of the Machine-Ground Interaction Consortium (MaGIC) meeting September 11th and 12th, 2024
The MaGIC meeting is an annual event organized by SBEL Technical Leads Dan Negrut & Radu Serban, and which is focused on vehicle-ground interaction modeling and simulation. Researchers from industry, government, and academia gather at …
SBEL to host the International Multibody System Dynamics (IMSD) Conference June 9th-13th, 2024
SBEL Technical Leads Dan Negrut and Radu Serban are hosting the 7th International Multibody System Dynamics (IMSD) Conference on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus June 9th-13th, 2024. This is the first time the conference is …
Lab student publishes paper on fast simulator that predicts the dynamics of granular material
Ruochun Zhang, a recent PhD graduate from the lab, has just had his paper published in a high impact factor journal. The work is a joint collaboration with scientists from NASA Glenn, NASA Ames, and …
Lab wins new two-year long NASA project; project started on December 26, 2023, related to rover simulation.
Our lab has been awarded new two-year long NASA project that focuses on using simulation to design autonomy stacks for lunar operations of rovers. The goal of the project is to produce a simulation environment …