15th European-African Regional Conference Prague

15th European-African Regional Conference

Prague, Czech Republic, 2019

Session 1— Terramechanics, terrain/soil- wheel/ tire/ track interaction, modeling and characterization

  1. “An Evaluation of Reconfigurable Wheel-Track Testbeds for Military Vehicles”, by Hannah Lyness and Dimitrios Apostolopoulos

  2. “Virtual Field Modeling Method for Terramechanics Analysis: Wheel Locomotion on Wind Ripple Pattern”, by Hirotaka Suzuki and Shingo Ozaki

  3. “Longitudinal and Skid Performance of Rigid Wheel with Grousers on Loose Granular Soil”, by Shamrao and Chandramouli Padmanabhan

  4. “Updates of International Society for Terrain-Vehicle Systems Standards”, by Rui He, Mohit N. Shenvi, Hoda Mousavi, Corina Sandu, Kirsten Braun, Ray Kruger and P. Schalk Els

  5. “Research on the Sand Mechanical Parameters in Different Water Content Based on the Triaxial Compression Test”, by Shuming Yang, Lijun Song, Jingwei Gao, Cheng Hu and Peng Zheng

  6. “Soil Strength Reconnaissance Using a Vehicle-Mounted Cone Penetrometer to Enable Robotic Engineer Operations”, by Maria Stevens, Luis De Jesus Diaz, Mark Ewing and Javier Osorio

  7. “Stress Distribution on the Surface of a Driving Wheel on Soft Sand”, by Junya Yamakawa and Ryosuke Eto

  8. “Update from a Multi-Year Data Mining Effort on Drove: Database Records for Off-Road Vehicle Environments”, by Farshid Vahedifard, George Mason, Isaac Howard, Jody Priddy and Arman Borazjani

  9. “The Discrete Element Method for Vehicle-Terrain Analysis”, by John Peters, Farshid Vahedifard, Bohumir Jelinek, George Mason and Jody Priddy

Session 2— Advances in mobility, energy transfer, efficiency, ground vehicle dynamics, safety

  1. “Improved Vehicle Mobility by Using Terrain Surfacing Systems”, by John Rushing and Daniel Harder

  2. “Peat and Organic Soil Characterization During Seasonal Mobility Testing”, by Susan Frankenstein, Lynette Barna, Bruce Elder, Sally Shoop, Michael Parker, Michelle Michaels and Mary Feyrer

  3. “Full-Field Strain Measurement of the Contact Patch of a Rolling Tyre Via the Inside Tyre Surface”, by Megan Pegram, Theunis Botha and Schalk Els

  4. “Full-Field Strain Measurements of the Inside of an Agricultural Tyre During Static Tests”, by Theunis Botha, Filip Feldesi and Schalk Els

  5. “Reference Torque History for Sustainable Mobility and Energy Efficiency Under Target Velocity Profiles”, by Vladimir Vantsevich, David Gorsich, Andriy Lozynskyy, Lyubomyr Demkiv, Taras Borovets and Sviatoslav Klos

  6. “Motion Resistance Measurements on Large Lug Tyres”, by Carl Becker and Schalk Els

  7. “Cross-Country Movement Mapping”, by Marian Rybansky

  8. “Modeling and Experimental Study of Tire Motion Resistance on Soft Soil”, by Rui He, Corina Sandu, Javier E. Osorio and Hoda Mousavi

  9. “Evaluation of Cooperative Collision Avoidance Algorithms for Sensor Selection by Monte Carlo Simulation”, by Keletso Maake, Herman Hamersma, Theunis Botha and Schalk Els

  10. “Ground Vehicle Performance Assessments Using the Mobility Analysis Tool”, by Jody Priddy, Burhman Gates, Ricky Mcgruder, Michael Puhr, George Mckinley and Benjamin Webb

  11. “Vehicle Mobility on Highly Organic Soils”, by Michael Parker, Alexander Stott, Mark Bodie, Susan Frankenstein and Sally Shoop

  12. “Effect of the Hard Layer of the Soil on the Sinkage”, by Nihal Salman, György Pillinger and Péter Kiss

  13. “Response Time Analysis of Driveline System of Open-Link Locomotion Module for Improving Agile Tire Off-Road Dynamics”, by Siyuan Zhang, Mostafa Salama and Vladimir Vantsevich

Session 3 — Land locomotion, off-road and military vehicles, operation mud, snow, and ice

  1. “Basic Research on Vehicle Trafficability in Underwater Ground”, by Mitsuru Yamada

  2. “Effect of Tread Shape on Interactino with Sandy Soil”, by Ryosuke Eto and Junya Yamakawa

  3. “Vehicle Efficiency When Driving on Snow”, by Aleksandr Blokhin, Lev Barakhtanov and Elena Denisenko

  4. “Preliminary Study of the Dependency of Vehicle Characteristic on the VCI”, by Klara Cibulova

  5. “Development of Unmanned Ground Vehicle with Enhanced Wheel Slip Control”, by Haytham Elzomor

  6. “Recent Improvements to Snow Mobility Algorithms”, by Sally Shoop, Mark Bodie, Susan Frankenstein, Michael Parker and Matthew Bigl

  7. “Fast Dynamic Modeling for Off-Road Track Vehicles”, by Gilad Gat, Yaron Franco and Itzhak Shmulevich

  8. “Estimation of Military Vehicle/Terrain Impacts”, by Heidi Howard, Paul Ayers, Alan Anderson, Wade Wall and Robert Floyd

  9. “Military Vehicle-Induced Soil Rutting: Field Study Results”, by Paul Ayers, Heidi Howard and Alan Anderson

  10. “Mathematical Model of Motion of a Machine with a Wheel Formula 6х6 Through a Destructible Moat”, by Alexey Papunin, Kirill Goncharov, Pavel Tyurikov, Umar Vakhidov, Vladimir Belyakov and Vladimir Makarov

Session 4 — Agricultural, forestry, construction, and mining equipment and vehicle operations

  1. “Evolution of Agricultural Tire Technologies and Their Impact on Soil Compaction”, by Patrick Vervaet and François Pinet

  2. “Modelling and Simulation of Arable Soil-Tool Interaction”, by Frederik Forchhammer Foldager, Carl Arnkil Jørgensen, Mads Thomsen, Lars Vabbersgaard Andersen, Lars Juhl Munkholm, Ole Green and Ole Balling

  3. “Evaluation of Tire-Soil-Mappings from Field Measurements with a Tractor Equipped with Wheel Force Transducers”, by Michael Peeters, Thomas Fedde and Ludger Frerichs

  4. “Tire Individual Contact Area (Tica) Pattern - the Standard of Tire Cc-Rating and Tire-Sce”, by Patrik Prikner, Ekaterina Markova, Alexander Grecenko, George Mason

Session 5 — Mobile robotics for ground applications, planet exploration and other environments & Terramechanics-based AI techniques and controls for autonomous mobility

  1. “Estimation of Bearing Capacity for Lunar/Planetary Rovers with Function of a Push-Pull Locomotion”, by Daisuke Fujiwara, Tsujikawa Naoki and Kojiro Iizuka

  2. “Study on Legged Typed Rovers with Soil Hardening Function by Combination of Vibration/Step to Travel Loose Soil”, by Watanabe Tomohiro and Iizuka Kojiro

  3. “Resistive Force Estimation for Bucket Excavation Using Machine Learning”, by Kenji Tsuchiya and Genya Ishigami

  4. “Slip Estimation Using Machine Learning of Wheel Trace Patterns for Mobile Robot on Loose Soil”, by Yuki Saku and Genya Ishigami

  5. “The Effects of Increasing Velocity on the Tractive Performance of Planetary Rovers”, by David Rodríguez-Martínez, Fabian Buse, Michel Van Winnendael and Kazuya Yoshida

  6. “Distributed Coordinated Control & Navigation of Multi-Robotic Systems and Autonomous Vehicles for Martian In-Situ Resource Utilization Efforts in Support of Human Exploration”, by John Hamilton

  7. “Planet Residence Service and Application Prospect of Tri-Co Robots”, by Zhenjie Liang, Lei Jiang, Bo Su and Ruina Dang

  8. “Lunar Soil Characteristic Estimation Based on Image Analysis”, by Xiangjin Deng, Lutz Richter and Jianqiao Li

  9. “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Autonomous Military Vehicles”, by Sergey Vecherin, Jacob Desmond, Taylor Hodgdon, Jordan Bates, Michael Parker, James Lever, Garrett Hoch, Mark Bodie and Sally Shoop

Session 6 — Innovative system designs for terrain and road-vehicle applications

  1. “A Modular Software-Component Framework for the Development of Distributed Electronic Control Systems for Agricultural Tractors”, by Massimo Martelli, Silvia Gessi, Mirko Pagano, Gabriele Morandi, Alberto Suffritti and Matteo Venturelli

  2. “Development of Automatic Steering System Using Hydraulic Pro-Portional Valve in a Small Farm Tractor”, by Anon Mungwongsa, Khwantri Saengprachatanarug and Thana Radpukdee

  3. “An Innovative Prototype of Adsorption Chiller for Air Conditioning for Industrial and Off-Road Vehicle”, by Salvatore Vasta and Antonino Bonanno

  4. “Research on the Performance of Regenerative Hydraulic Electric Suspension System Under the Road Excitation”, by Peng Zheng, Jingwei Gao, Lijun Song and Shuming Yang

  5. “Study of Calculation Method for the Ground Stiffness Using the Acceleration Measurement of Vibratory Roller”, by Takaaki Yokoyama and Kazuyoshi Tateyama

  6. “Analysis of the Regional Road Macroprofile in the Nizhny Novgorod Region (Russia)”, by Kirill Goncharov, Alexander Belyaev, Sergey Manyanin, Yuri Molev, Vladimir Belyakov and Vladimir Makarov

Session 7 — Application of bionics engineering to terramechanics

  1. “How Quartz Sand (Size, Shape, Compactness) Affects Intrusion Performance of Mechanical Feet?”, by Rui Zhang, Dianlei Han, Qingqiu Cao, Lei Jiang, Dong Li and Jianqiao Li

  2. “The Foot-Ground Interaction Mechanism and Compliance Behavior Control for Legged Robots”, by Lei Jiang, Jianjuan Guo, Ruina Dang, Peng Xu and Bo Su

Poster Session

  1. “Updates of International Society for Terrain-Vehicle Systems Standards”, by Rui He, Mohit N. Shenvi, Hoda Mousavi, Corina Sandu, Kirsten Braun, Ray Kruger and P. Schalk Els

  2. “Peat and Organic Soil Characterization During Seasonal Mobility Testing”, by Susan Frankenstein, Lynette Barna, Bruce Elder, Sally Shoop, Michael Parker, Michelle Michaels and Mary Feyrer

  3. “Modeling and Experimental Study of Tire Motion Resistance on Soft Soil”, by Rui He, Corina Sandu, Javier E. Osorio and Hoda Mousavi

  4. “Mathematical Model of Motion of a Machine with a Wheel Formula 6х6 Through a Destructible Moat”, by Alexey Papunin, Kirill Goncharov, Pavel Tyurikov, Umar Vakhidov, Vladimir Belyakov and Vladimir Makarov

  5. “Analysis of the Regional Road Macroprofile in the Nizhny Novgorod Region (Russia)”, by Kirill Goncharov, Alexander Belyaev, Sergey Manyanin, Yuri Molev, Vladimir Belyakov and Vladimir Makarov

  6. “Development of the Wheels for the Mars 2020 Rover”, by Scott Moreland, Patrick Degrosse Jr., Michael Newby, William Ferguson, Tom Moreno, David Wettergreen, Molly Whittaker, Hiroaki Inotsume, Warren Whittaker and Karen Orton

  7. “Engineering Designs for Off-Road Vehicle Rollover Protection”, by Paul Ayers

  8. “Shear Stress-Shear Displacement Relationship of an Artificial Soil Model”, byRisa Osumi, Hiroshi Nakashima, Hiroshi Shimizu, Juro Miyasaka and Katsuaki Ohdoi

  9. “Prediction of Soil Moisture Content by an Artificial Neural Network”, by Yusuke Terayama, Hiroshi Nakashima, Hiroshi Shimizu, Juro Miyasaka and Katsuaki Ohdoi

  10. “Garfield - an Online Information System on Grassy Airfields”, by Jaroslaw Pytka, Piotr Budzynski, Jerzy Jozwik, Tomasz Lyszczyk, Anna Zalewska and Jan Laskowski

  11. “Research in Bionic Joint Based on the Compliance Characteristics of Ostrich Intertasal Joint”, by Rui Zhang, Qingqiu Cao, Lei Ling and Jianqiao Li