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 …
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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 …
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 …