Prague Call for Abstracts Extended to April 28// Submissions for Prague Abstracts deadline now extended to April 28. Don’t miss this opportunity to collaborate with terramechanics colleagues in beautiful Prague in September. Full submission details here: Submissions
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Welcoming our new ISTVS General Secretary
In our last email Newswire, we reported that after ten years of service, Dr. Lutz Richter had asked to begin the process of stepping down from the position of ISTVS General Secretary.
Now I'm pleased to have the honor of introducing our new General Secretary, Mr. Massimo Martelli.
Read MoreTo Dr. Lutz Richter with great appreciation
We thank Dr. Lutz Richter for his contribution to our society as the General Secretary. He was elected as General Secretary at our annual Board of Directors meeting at the 16th ISTVS International Conference in Turin, Italy, in 2008. Since then, he has served ISTVS for more than 10 years.
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Congratulations to China on their lunar landing
Short update from our chair of the ISTVS Robotics Committee, Dr Lutz Richter: Another planetary rover mission started operations on January 3 this year: early that day, China succeeded in its second uncrewed lunar landing mission with Chang’e 4 touching down at a predesignated site within von Karman crater on the Moon, itself situated within the ancient South Pole Aitken impact basin.
Read MoreNew Editor Announced by our Journal Editor-in-Chief
Dear ISTVS members and readers of the Journal of Terramechanics: Please welcome a new editor who will represent the Asia-Pacific region — Dr. Genya Ishigami. Dr. Ishigami received his PhD degree from Tohoku University, Japan in 2008. He worked as Postdoctoral Associate at the Robotics Mobility Group, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, U.S.A. Dr. Ishigami also served as Research Associate, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Read MoreThank you to our departing editor, Prof. Taizo Kobayashi
After serving for four years- **Prof. Taizo Kobayashi** would like to resign his editorship of the Journal of Terramechanics. On behalf of the Editorial Board and Advising Board of the Journal, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Prof. Kobayashi for his hard work on editing and reviewing manuscripts, promoting the Journal, and maintaining the Journal’s requirements and standards. Thank you, Prof. Kobayashi. We wish you the best with your future endeavors.
Read MoreNEW ISTVS Job Board and Research Opportunities Portal
Check out the two new resources here on the ISTVS website — the Job Board and the Research Opportunities Portal. ISTVS Job Board // Our new job board is the place to post terramechanics and off-road vehicle-related jobs, as well as your own information if you are looking for these types of jobs. ISTVS Research Opportunities // Our new research opportunities portal shares terramechanics-related research requests for applications.
Read MoreNew Editor Announced by our Journal Editor-in-Chief
In my capacity of the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Terramechanics, I am delighted to introduce Dr. Ramon Gonzalez as a new Editor. Dr. Gonzalez will be helping the Editorial Team to extend classical terramechanics and off-road vehicle mobility to the area of real-time applications, including terrain sensoring, computer-based vision and other techniques for terrain identification and estimation, advanced controls, AI, and geostatistics.
Read MoreBest Paper Award at Kyoto Conference
We selected the following three Best Papers at the Joint 10th Asia-Pacific Conference of ISTVS and 39th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Terramechanics.
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