Virtual Event
September 29 – October 1, 2020
Madison, WI
Central time – Chicago
TRACK 1: Machine-Ground Interaction Consortium (MaGIC) Organizer: Dan Negrut, UW-Madison
Tuesday, September 29
| 8:00am-8:15am | Welcome and Logistics, Professor Dan Negrut, UW-Madison |
| 8:15am-8:40am | Practical Coarse Graining of Granular Materials, Professor Ken Kamrin, MIT |
| 8:40am-9:05am | Robotic Simulation in Chrono: State of the Art and Perspective, Alessandro Tasora, University of Parma, Italy |
| 9:05am-9:30am | Locomotion on and with Granular Media, Professor Dan Goldman, Georgia Tech |
| 9:30am-9:50am | Break |
| 9:50am-10:15am | Fluid-Solid Interaction with Proteus and Chrono, Dr. Chris Kees, US Army, ERDC |
| 10:15am-10:40am | Fidelity, Realism, and Parameterization of Models for Soil-machine Interaction, Professor James Paul Hambleton, Northwestern |
| 10:40am-11:05am | Multibody Simulation Platform for Amazon Scout, Kishor Bhalero, Amazon |
| 11:05am-11:30am | Off-road autonomous Vehicle Simulation in Chrono, Professor Dan Negrut, UW Madison |
| 11:30am-12:15pm | Lunch Break |
| 12:15pm-1:00pm | Detecting Changes in Complex Environments Professor Becca Willet, University of Chicago (Keynote) |
| 1:00pm-1:45pm | Planning Transportation Capacity at Amazon Russell Allgor, Chief Scientist, Amazon (Keynote) |
| 1:45pm-1:55pm | Break |
| 1:55pm-2:40pm | Computational Imaging of Cellular Signatures, Kevin Eliceiri, UW-Madison (Keynote) |
| 2:40pm-3:00pm | Supporting Current and Future Researchers Through Data and Software Cyberinfrastructure, Stefan Robila, Program Director, Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation |
| 3:00pm-5:00pm | Poster Session |
Wednesday, September 30
| 8:00am-8:30am | State of the Simulation-Based Engineering Lab, Dan Negrut, UW-Madison |
| 8:30am-8:45am | Machine Learning with GymChrono & PyChrono, Simone Benatti, PhD Italy |
| 8:45am-9:00am | Chrono::Sensor For Robotics & Autonomous Vehicle Simulation, Asher Elmquist, SBEL PhD Student |
| 9:00am-9:15am | SynChrono for Multi-agent Autonomous Vehicle Simulation: Jay Taves, SBEL MS Student |
| 9:15am-9:30am | Chrono Granular, Luning Fang, SBEL PhD Student |
| 9:30am-9:45am | Using Continuum Representations for Granular Material Dynamics: Wei Hu, SBEL Post-Doc Student |
| 9:45am-10:00am | Multi-phase Flows with Chrono:: FSI, Lijing Yang, SBEL PhD Student |
| 10:00am-11:00am | Q&A Session: Chrono Development Team |
| 11:00am-12:30pm | Lunch |
| 12:30pm-2:30pm | Tutorial Chrono::Sensor, Asher Elmquist & Han Wang |
| 3:00pm-5:00pm | Tutorial Chrono::FSI, Wei Hu & Lijing Zhang |
Thursday, October 1
| 8:30am-10:30am | Overview of Chrono, Radu Serban |
| 10:30am-12:30pm | Tutorial PyChrono & GymChrono: Support for AI & ML in Chrono, Simone Benatti & Alex Pletta |
| 12:30pm-1:00pm | Lunch Break |
| 1:00pm-3:00pm | Tutorial SynChrono: Support for Multi-Agent Simulations for on/off-road Autonomy, Jay Taves, Aaron Young, Yan Xiao |
| 3:00pm-5:00pm | Tutorial Chrono::Granular, Luning Fang, Ruochun Zhang, and Jason Zhou |