Saturday, September 7, 2019
New initiative to present an advanced training course by ISTVS professionals. Separate fee to participate. Take advantage of your travel to Prague to advance your knowledge!
Updated tentative program:
Artificial intelligence and simulation tools applied to off-road mobile robotics. Speaker: Ramon Gonzalez, CEO of robonity, Spain.
Modeling the vehicle-terrain interaction with advanced tools. Speaker: Shingo Ozaki, Associate Professor, Yokohama National University, Japan.
GIS tools for high-resolution global terramechanics-related parameters. Speaker tba.
Terramechanics for planetary exploration missions. Speaker: Lutz Richter, OHB System AG, Germany.
Topic tba. Speaker tba.
The topics will be grouped in two 3-hour sessions.
» Look for updates on the conference site
Course registration rates:
ISTVS Members: € 100
Non-Members: € 150
Registration will open as soon as the final program is defined.
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce that ISTVS has become an Affiliate Member of The International Federation of Automotive Engineering Societies, familiarly known as FISITA.
Read MoreFollowing its launch in February, the small, Israeli-built Beresheet lunar lander spacecraft was successfully maneuvered to the Moon and entered orbit around it on April 4, as planned. “Beresheet” had its origin in the now discontinued Google Lunar X-Prize, with Israel’s SpaceIL team going all the way to launching its demonstration mission, one to two years ahead of competing ex-contenders to the prize.
Read MoreJust weeks after successfully acquiring a sample of surface material on the small, primitive near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, the Japanese HAYABUSA-2 space mission again succeeded in a novel and difficult maneuver. After due preparation, the spacecraft on April 5 successfully deployed an explosive package to the surface of the asteroid from a safe distance of 500 m.
Read MoreIf you haven’t yet visited the Resource Initiative wiki on the ISTVS website, we encourage you to have a look:
» www.istvs.org/resourceinitiative
The mainly technical information is being published to support ISTVS members. We seek feedback and content from members to help guide the development of the Resource Initiative and to take it in directions that best support the aims of the ISTVS.
Read MoreIf you haven’t yet visited the Resource Initiative wiki on the ISTVS website, we encourage you to have a look:
» www.istvs.org/resourceinitiative
The mainly technical information is being published to support ISTVS members. We seek feedback and content from members to help guide the development of the Resource Initiative and to take it in directions that best support the aims of the ISTVS.
Read MorePrague 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
Read MoreIn 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 MoreWe 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.
Read MoreShort 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 MoreDear 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 MoreAfter 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 MoreCheck 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 MoreIn 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 MoreWe selected the following three Best Papers at the Joint 10th Asia-Pacific Conference of ISTVS and 39th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Terramechanics.
Read MoreIndividual papers from the 2017 ISTVS conference in Budapest, the 19th International & 14th European-African Regional Conference, are now available for purchase as individual papers.
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