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 …
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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 …
SBEL collaborates with NASA in preparation for 2024 lunar mission
For the next two years, SBEL will work on a NASA project tied to the 2024 lunar mission in which the VIPER rover will search for frozen water at the South Pole of moon. Our …
Producing 3D Friction Loads by Tracking the Motion of the Contact Point on Bodies in Mutual Contact
Lab researchers, Luning Fang and Dan Negrut, recently completed a paper to be published by the Journal, Computational Particle Mechanics. Their general approach to modeling friction is inspired by tracking the evolution of the contact …
Chrono Tutorials at MaGIC 2020
Several SBEL-ites presented Chrono-related tutorials at the 2020 edition of the Machine-Ground Interaction Consortium (MaGIC). Asher Elmquist presented on Chrono::Sensor Jay Taves and Aaron Young presented on SynChrono Luning Fang presented on Chrono::Granular Radu Serban …
Two SBEL Students Win Poster Prize at MaGIC 2020
At the 2020 edition of the Machine-Ground Interaction Consortium (MaGIC), two SBEL students won a prize for the posters they presented on lab research. Alex Pletta won 1st prize with a poster on advanced control …
SynChrono poster accepted to SC20
A SynChrono reinforcement learning poster was recently accepted for presentation at the SC20 supercomputing conference. The poster highlights machine-learning work with a convoy of autonomous vehicles operating cohesively on deformable off-road terrain. Several pieces of …