Schedule Update:
The Project Chrono overview and hands-on tutorial on Wednesday will now be open to all guests. Thursday's session on Chrono is for our Army collaborators only.
Meeting Agenda
The December meeting will focus on two major issues. First, there will be an update about ongoing research on vehicle-ground interaction, with a focus on trends in high-performance computing, granular materials, terrain modeling and simulation, and virtual prototyping. Second, the meeting will highlight Project Chrono software and its interplay with the U.S. Army's CRES-GV project. Participants will get an overview of the software's modeling and simulation capablities, plus a hands-on demo of Chrono for vehicle dynamics.
Schedule: Tuesday, Dec 9th
Research Talks
Location: room 2188 Mechanical Engineering building
08:00 – 08:30
Guest check in
[Continental Breakfast]
08:30 – 08:45
Introductions, Logistics and Goals of the Meeting
Professor Dan Negrut, UW-Madison
08:45 – 09:45
Keynote Talk: “Vehicle Mobility - Goals & Challenges”
Dr. Paramsothy Jayakumar US Army TARDEC: 45 min talk + 15 min Q&A
09:45 – 10:15
Talk: "Benchmark Problems For Machine-Ground Interaction Simulations"
Dr. Mike McCullough, British Aerospace Engineering (BAE) Systems
10:15 – 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:00
“Resistive Force Theory Models of Locomotion on Granular Media”
Tingnan Zhang or Professor Daniel Goldman, Georgia Tech
11:00 – 11:30
“Overview of the ADAMS Software - New Features and Future Developments”
Mike Collingridge, Director of Development - System Dynamics, MSC.Software
11:30 – 12:30
Brownbag Lunch (catered)
[Marty Gustafson – UW Online Masters of Eng. Degree in Data Analysis: 5 m.]
[Peter Qian, Statistics Professor – Tools for Stat. Analysis & Dsgn. of Exp.: 5 m.]
[Radu Serban – overview of Wednesday’s Chrono hands-on module: 10 m.]
[Dan Negrut – overview of US Army Rapid Innovation Fund project: 10 m.]
12:30 – 13:00
“Modeling, Simulation, and Validation of Tracked Vehicles”
Dr. Holger Haut, Simertis Gmbh, Germany
13:00 – 13:15
Coffee Break
13:15 – 14:15
Keynote Talk: "Modeling & Simulation for Tank R&D Including Vehicle-Ground Interaction"
Dr. Koki Jumonji, Head, Turret Chassis & Propulsion Research Section, Technical Research & Development Institute, Ministry of Defense, Japan: 45 min talk + 15 min Q&A
14:15 – 15:00
Keynote Talk: “Virtual Prototyping at Caterpillar”
Mr. Keven W. Hofstetter, Caterpillar Inc.
15:00 – 15:45
Networking Break
15:45 – 16:15
“Structure-Based, Minimal Coordinate Dynamics for Mobile Robotics”
Dr. Abhinandan Jain, Jet Propulsion Laboratory-NASA
16:15 – 16:45
“Flexible Body Simulation in MBDyn”
Professor Pierangelo Masarati, Politecnico di Milano
16:45-17:15
“Recent Developments in Computational Mechanics with Applications to Terrain Modeling”
Professor Eftychios Sifakis, Computer Science, UW-Madison
17:15-17:45
"Solver Technologies in RecurDyn"
Dr. Graham Sanborn, FunctionBay, South Korea
17:45 – 18:30
Student live demos in Simulation-Based Engineering Lab – Room 4150ME
18:30 – 20:30
Happy Hour and Dinner at Steenbock’s on Orchard (Wisconsin Institute for Discovery)
Wednesday, Dec 10th
Wednesday, December 10, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm, Project Chrono Overview
Location: room 3210 Mechanical Engineering building
(Tasora, Serban, Melanz, Taylor)
1. Description of the Chrono suite and of the Chrono::Vehicle vertical app
2. Validation, software, documentation, and support
3. Using Chrono for multibody dynamics - Basic features
4. Using Chrono for multibody dynamics - Intermediate and Advanced features
5. Hands-on tutorial: modeling and simulation of a slider-crank mechanism
