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 …
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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 …
Learned behavior on hilly off-road terrain
Drawing on Chrono::Vehicle, Chrono::Sensor, PyChrono and GymChrono, SBEL recently presented exciting off-road research at the Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering and Technology Symposium (GVSETS). Aaron and Simone used GymChrono and PyChrono to train humvees to drive …
SBEL Student Milad Rakhsha Got A Job at Disney Animation
Congratulations to SBEL student Milad Rakhsha who got a job at Disney Animation! This’s well-deserved! Walt Disney Animation Studios, sometimes shortened to Disney Animation, is an American animation studio that creates animated feature and short …
SBEL Student Nicholas Olsen Wins the First Prize in Poster Competition
On September 10, SBEL graduate student Nicholas Olsen won $500 for the First Place in Eckrose Innovation Best Poster Competition held at the Computing in Engineering Forum. Computing in Engineering Forum 2019 is a place …
SBEL attends NATO CDT Event
Radu Serban and Dan Negrut attended the Next-Generation NATO Reference Mobility Model (NG-NRMM) Cooperative Demonstration of Technology (CDT), held at the Keweenaw Research Center, Houghton, MI, Sept. 25 to 27. The CDT was the end result of …
SBEL Welcomes Visitor from France
The Simulation Based Engineering Lab had the distinct honor of hosting Christian Duriez this week including putting on a public talk about his work. Duriez’s talk discussed the numerical methods for modeling, simulation and control …
SBEL student Conlain Kelly wins prestigious scholarship
This month, SBEL undergraduate Conlain Kelly won a scholarship from the prestigious Astronaut Foundation Scholarship for the 2018-19 school year. The award includes up to $10,000 and an expenses paid trip to the ASF Innovators Gala August 23-25, …
SBEL students land summer internships
Congratulations to the SBEL members who have gotten internships for this summer! For our undergraduate students, Dylan Hatch will be interning at the prestigious Qualcomm Linux Kernel Team, and Conlain Kelly is joining Product Development at Ford Motor Company …