December 5-7, 2023
Held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI-53706
Event sponsors: Hexagon, Komatsu, Wind River, Mandli Communications, and Brian Eckrose Foundation
Event Registration: Register here by December 1, 2023.
For further information, contact Dan Negrut or Radu Serban.
Please consult this page for the latest updates, room information, changes in schedule, etc.
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
| Time |
Session |
| 08:00-08:15 |
Dan Negrut, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Introductory remarks, event logistics |
| 08:15-08:40 |
Marcel Offermans, The Last Garage: “Going Fast!” |
| 08:40-09:05 |
David Vieira, Université de Haute-Alsace: “Vehicle Dynamics and Control Architectures: Development and Validation with Chrono.” |
| 09:05-09:30 |
Rainer Gericke, formerly Bundeswehr: “Gaining Mobility Relevant Information with Chrono::Vehicle” |
| 09:30-09:55 |
David Marten, QBlade: “Simulating Floating Wind Turbines: An Integration of Chrono with Qblade” |
| 09:55-10:25 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:25-10:50 |
Christian Schönke, Compose Technologies: “Simulation of wind turbine drivetrains” |
| 10:50-11:15 |
Tristan de Lataillade, Total Energies: “SEAHOWL x Chrono: Multiphysics Multifidelity Simulations for Wind Turbines” |
| 11:15-11:40 |
Bonaventura Tagliafierro, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya: “DualSPHysics & Chrono: A simulation platform for wave and wind energy development” |
| 11:40-12:05 |
Dave Ogden, NREL: “HydroChrono: A Hydrodynamics Extension for Project Chrono” |
| 12:05-12:30 |
Tulga Ersal, University of Michigan: “Chrono as an Enabler in Pushing the Mobility Limits of Autonomous Off-Road Vehicles” |
| 12:30-13:30 |
Lunch Break |
| 13:30-13:55 |
Julian Tao, Arizona State University: “Simulation-inspired Theory on Reciprocating Burrowing Robot” |
| 13:55-14:20 |
Hamid Marvi, Arizona State University: “The Screw Mobility System of the Extant Exobiology Life Surveyor (EELS) for Mobility on Highly Unknown Terrains” |
| 14:20-14:45 |
Alexander Schepelmann, NASA Glenn: “Parametric Optimization of Rigid Wheels for Planetary Surface Mobility Applications” |
| 14:45-15:15 |
Coffee Break |
| 15:15-15:40 |
Chris Schwarz, NADS, University of Iowa: “Human-in-the-loop driving with Chrono in the NADS-1” |
| 15:40-16:05 |
Jacob Woten, US Army GVSC: “Computational Research and Engineering Acquisition Tools and Environments (CREATE) – Ground Vehicles (GV) Tools” |
| 16:05-16:30 |
Luis Medina, Universidad Austral de Chile: “Virtual Balancing Experiments with the VRK Project: A PyChrono-Based Virtual Rotor Test Rig” |
| 16:30-16:55 |
Varshini Kamaraj, UW-Madison: “Using Chrono to Gauge the Interplay between Human Factors and Autonomous Driving” |
| 16:55-17:20 |
Kai Li, Goldwind: “Development and application of an aero-hydro-servo-elastic coupling simulation tool for wind turbines based on Chrono::Engine” |
Wednesday, December 6, 2023: Looking ahead talks & Chrono Tutorial
| Time |
Session |
| 08:30-08:45 |
Dan Negrut, UW-Madison: Introductory remarks, event logistics |
| 08:45-9:10 |
Krishna Kumar, University of Texas, Austin: Differentiable Simulators and the Use of Machine Learning in Simulation |
| Short Talk |
Huzaifa Unjhawala, UW-Madison: Library of lower fidelity, fast and differentiable vehicle models |
| Short Talk |
Jason Zhou, UW-Madison: Multi-agent, human-in-the-loop Chrono simulation for human factors research |
| Short Talk |
Aaron Young, MIT: Support for designing Autonomy Stacks in Chrono |
| Short Talk |
Alexis Ruiz & Sriram Ashokkumar, UW-Madison: Overview of robotics hardware assets used in sim2real research in the Simulation-Based Engineering Lab |
| Short Talk |
Nevindu Batagoda, UW-Madison: Overview of a software framework for advancing perception capabilities for rovers operating in harsh lunar environments |
| Short Talk |
Ishaan Mahajan & Stefan Caldararu, UW-Madison: Using and Simulating RTK-GPS sensing for applications in robotics |
| Short Talk |
Harry Zhang & Stefan Caldararu, UW-Madison: Using Chrono to set up an autonomous vehicle control policy |
| Short Talk |
Thomas Liang & Bo-Hsun Chen, UW-Madison: On the labeling and digitization of the NASA’s POLAR Dataset for training lunar perception algorithms |
| Short Talk |
Bo-Hsun Chen, UW-Madison: Using Generative Adversarial Networks to improve sensor simulation in Chrono |
| Short Talk |
Huzaifa Unjhawala & Jason Zhou & Harry Zhang, UW-Madison: Using Gym Chrono for AI training |
| 12:15-13:30 |
Lunch Break |
| 13:30-16:30 |
Ruochun Zhang & Bonaventura Tagliafierro, UW-Madison & Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya: Discrete Element Method Simulation with Chrono DEME |
Thursday, December 7, 2023: Chrono Tutorials
| Time |
Session |
| 08:30-08:45 |
Dan Negrut, UW-Madison: Introductory remarks |
| 08:45-11:45 |
Luning Bakke, UW-Madison: Getting Started with Chrono |
| 11:45-13:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 13:00-16:30 |
Harry Zhang, Aaron Young, Stefan Caldararu, Thomas Liang, Ishaan Mahajan, Sriram Ashokkumar, UW-Madison: Tutorial on using Chrono simulation for robot Autonomy-Stack design |