SBEL researchers Aaron Young, Jay Taves, Asher Elmquist, Radu Serban, Dan Negrut, Simone Benatti, and Alessandro Tasora received the Best Paper Award in the Area of Multibody Dynamics for their paper “Enabling Artificial Intelligence Studies …
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SBEL Assistant Scientist Wei Hu led efforts in recent Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (CMAME) publication
SBEL researchers Wei Hu, Milad Rakhsha, Lijing Yang, and Dan Negrut recently had a paper published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (CMAME) with help from collaborator Ken Kamrin of MIT. The work …
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 …
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 …