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
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 …
Lab student publishes paper on fast simulator that predicts the dynamics of granular material
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 …
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 …
SBEL student wins Best Student Paper Award at the 2023 ASME MSNDC Conference
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 …
Poster submitted by SBEL researchers to the Supercomputing2021 Conference made it to the finals for Best Poster Award
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 …
SBEL researcher attends TechConnect World Innovation conference to present developments in Project Chrono
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 …
Google DeepMind references a paper published by SBEL researchers and colleagues to motivate recent acquisition of MuJoCo for simulation in robotics
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 …
SBEL researchers publish work on Chrono::GPU in the the special issue “DEM Simulations and Modeling of Granular Materials” of Processes
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 …