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 …
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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 …
Lab students attend 2023 SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles
One graduate (Bo-Hsun) and four undergraduate (Nevindu, Sriram, Ishaan, and Thomas) students attended the largest computer graphics conference worldwide. SIGGRAPH was organized in Los Angeles, and it is an annual conference centered around computer graphics …
PhD student Lijing Yang to spend 2021 summer as an intern with MathWorks
PhD student Lijing Yang will spend the summer of 2021 as an intern working for MathWorks, the company behind MATLAB. Lijing’s work is in the area of multi-physics simulation and high performance computing. She is …
Continuum representation of granular material used to simulate mobility of VIPER rover replica
SBEL students Wei Hu and Jason Zhang collaborated on a simulation of a VIPER-replica rover operating on granular material. The highlight here is that the terrain was actually represented as a continuum material. This trick …
SBEL student gets back-to-back internships with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and Tesla, Inc.
Aaron Young, a junior undergraduate student in the lab will spend the Spring semester at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (February-May, 2021) in a virtual internship working with members of the robotics dynamics group. Between June …
Dan Negrut and Asher Elmquist among the co-authors of a recent Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) publication
Dan Negrut and Asher Elmquist are among the co-authors of a recent paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The “perspectives” manuscript discusses opportunities and challenges associated with the use …
SBEL receives $200,000 grant from the US Army Research Office via a DURIP instrumentation award
At the beginning of December, SBEL received a $200,000 grant to upgrade the Euler supercomputer. The money will be spent to deploy a Mellanox Infiniband interconnect between the nodes of Euler. In addition, the money …