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Alexandra Kissel

SBEL PI Dan Negrut visits NASA Johnson to see the VIPER rover, a moon-bound mission supported by SBEL via Chrono terramechanics simulations

Posted on April 10, 2024

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 …

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SBEL contributes a simulation-in-robotics paper on arxiv which provides a simulation methodology to rank the success of control policies deployed in reality

Posted on April 8, 2024

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 …

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SBEL to host the 12th edition of the Machine-Ground Interaction Consortium (MaGIC) meeting September 11th and 12th, 2024

Posted on April 2, 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 …

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SBEL to host the International Multibody System Dynamics (IMSD) Conference June 9th-13th, 2024

Posted on April 1, 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 …

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SBEL student wins Best Student Paper Award at the 2023 ASME MSNDC Conference

Posted on August 5, 2023

Alexandra Kissel, an SBEL graduate student, won the Best Student Paper Award the 2023 ASME 19th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control held in Boston, MA, August 20-23rd, 2023. The paper titled …

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Poster submitted by SBEL researchers to the Supercomputing2021 Conference made it to the finals for Best Poster Award

Posted on December 4, 2021

SBEL researchers Ruochun Zhang, Wei Hu, Simone Benatti, Luning Fang, Jason Zhou, Lijing Yang, Asher Elmquist, Jay Taves, Aaron Young, Colin Vanden Heuvel, Radu Serban, and Dan Negrut contributed to the poster titled “Open-Source High-Performance …

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SBEL researcher attends TechConnect World Innovation conference to present developments in Project Chrono

Posted on November 8, 2021

SBEL researcher Simone Benatti attended the TechConnect World Innovation conference to present recent developments to Project Chrono and connect with businesses. See his poster contribution “Open-Source High-Performance Computing for Applications in Engineering: DEM, SPH and …

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Google DeepMind references a paper published by SBEL researchers and colleagues to motivate recent acquisition of MuJoCo for simulation in robotics

Posted on October 26, 2021

Dan Negrut and Asher Elmquist are among the authors of a 2021 publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) “On the use of simulation in robotics: Opportunities, challenges, and suggestions for …

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SBEL researchers publish work on Chrono::GPU in the the special issue “DEM Simulations and Modeling of Granular Materials” of Processes

Posted on October 24, 2021

Luning Fang, Ruochun Zhang, Colin Vanden Heuvel, Radu Serban and Dan Negrut recently published their work on Chrono::GPU, an open-source Discrete Element Method (DEM) software package, in the Special Issue “DEM Simulations and Modeling of …

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SBEL researchers win Best Paper Award in the Area of Multibody Dynamics at the 2021 MSNDC Conference

Posted on September 6, 2021

SBEL researchers Aaron Young, Jay Taves, Asher Elmquist, Radu Serban, Dan Negrut, Simone Benatti, and Alessandro Tasora received the Best Paper Award in the Area of Multibody Dynamics for their paper “Enabling Artificial Intelligence Studies …

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