This project outlines a continuous approach for treating discrete granular flows that hold across multiple scales: from experiments that focus on centimeter-sized control volumes to tests that involve landslides and tall buildings. The motion of …
Past Projects
Chrono Integration with Cognitive Systems Lab Driving Simulator
SBEL has partnered with the Cognitive Systems Lab (CSL) and Professor Sue Ahn’s lab on an NSF-sponsored project to better understand traffic flows in the context of human takeover from autonomous vehicles. For research on …
Modeling Multiphase Flows with Incompressible SPH on GPU
Incompressible multiphase flows with complex interface geometries are involved in many industrial and environmental applications. In contrast to the widely-used Eulerian approaches, as a Lagrangian method, SPH handles the interface representation naturally without the need …
SynChrono Moves Off-Road
The SynChrono autonomous vehicle simulation platform has recently added support for SCM deformable terrain, allowing vehicles to operate in time coherent off-road environments. The first video shown below is a proof of concept where a …
Chrono::Sensor – modeling and simulating virtual sensors for robots and autonomous vehicles
Chrono::Sensor is a specialized module in Project Chrono for the modeling and simulation of sensors within a Chrono simulation. This simulation module is in development with current support for simulation of camera, lidar, GPS, and …
Synchrono: A Multi-Agent Simulation Framework for Robotics and Autonomous Vehicle Applications
SynChrono is a framework in which dynamic multi-agent simulations can be conducted to understand agent interplay and develop control algorithms in a safe and flexible environment. To create a virtual proving grounds for autonomous vehicles …
Chrono::Vehicle – Template-Based Ground Vehicle Modeling and Simulation
Chrono::Vehicle is a module of the open-source multi-physics simulation package Chrono, aimed at modeling, simulation, and visualization of wheeled and tracked ground vehicle multi-body systems. It provides an expeditious and user-friendly mechanism for assembling complex …
High Performance Computing Framework for Co-simulation of Ground Vehicle – Terrain Interaction
Current modeling and simulation capabilities permit tackling complex multi-physics problems, such as those encountered in ground vehicle mobility studies, using high-fidelity physics-based models for all involved subsystems, including the vehicle, tires, and deformable terrain. However, …
Quantum-Assisted Machine Learning for Mobility Studies
In this project we explore and provide a proof-of-concept approach to solving ground vehicle mobility-related problems on emerging quantum computing (QC) machines, in particular as embodied in the D-Wave quantum annealer systems. We identify the …
Modeling and Simulation of the RoboSimian Robot
As part of this project, we are developing a Chrono model of RoboSimian, an apelike robot developed and built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The goal of this project is to provide a simulation-based assessment …