Dear ISTVS Colleagues and Friends, It is hard to believe, but 2022 is quickly approaching its end! I hope it was a good year for all of you! On behalf of the ISTVS, the Board of Directors, and myself, thank you for being part of our society!
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2023—The year for the Europe-Africa region of ISTVS to shine
We are pleased to announce that the 16th European-African Regional Conference of the ISTVS will be held in late 2023 in Lublin, Poland, and chaired by Prof. Jarosław Pytka from the Lublin University of Technology. I would especially like to encourage regional secretaries and members in the Europe-Africa region to not only participate in the conference, but also to get involved in the organization of the event.
Read MoreA report from the Japan Society for Terramechanics
The 43rd annual meeting of the Japan Society for Terramechanics was held November 13-16. This association has been in existence for over 40 years. For the past two years, the event has been held online, but this year it was held on-site at the Okayama University of Science campus (hosted by Professor Tetsuya Kinugasa) in Okayama Prefecture (about 200 km west of Kyoto) and attracted more than 30 participants.
Read MoreISTVS in collaboration with FISITA in 2022
A few years ago, our society moved towards collaboration with other relevant societies. Among them, a very important one is FISITA (Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d’Ingénieurs des Techniques de l’Automobile, fisita.com). According to their website, “Established in 1950, FISITA is the international network for automotive engineers, with a reach to over 200,000 engineers in 35 countries.” ISTVS became an affiliate member of FISITA in 2021 and a full member in 2022.
Read MoreProfessor J. Y. Wong’s 2022 William F. Milliken Lecture
We are pleased to share the keynote by past ISTVS President Jo Wong (2002–2005) who gave the ASME VEHICLE DESIGN COMMITTEE W. MILLIKEN LECTURE at the International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conferences (IDETC-CIA 2022) in August.
Read MoreFISITA Event | FISITA World Mobility Summit 2022 - Carbon Neutral Mobility – from Cradle to Grave
The speaker line-up includes the following plus more: Dr. Erik Schuenemann, Director for System Engineering Powertrain, Bosch; Dr. Tim Wallington, Senior Technical Leader for Environmental Sciences, Ford Motor Company; Sophie Schmidtlin, CTO Circular Economy Business, Renault Group. The Summit is FISITA’s annual gathering which brings together senior technology leaders and executives to work on issues of major importance to the future of the automobile.
Read MoreFISITA Event | Carbon Capture & Utilisation
We are pleased to share these upcoming events from our colleagues at FISITA. ISTVS members receive a 50% discount on the registration fee.
Quantum Computing in Mobility – Myth or Reality?
Thursday, 8 September at 07:00 Detroit, 12:00 London, 16:30 Mumbai.
Carbon Capture & Utilisation: Harnessing the Power of CO2 for Useful Materials in Mobility
Thursday, 22 September at 07:00 Detroit, 12:00 London, 16:30 Mumbai
If you cannot attend in person, register anyway and you will receive access to a recording of the events. These are the next in a series of online technical discussions that have been devised and delivered by the FISITA Technical Committee, enabling a regular expert community to engage, explore and assess the impact of the new technologies on the industry.
Read MoreFISITA September Technology Discussions
We are pleased to share these upcoming events from our colleagues at FISITA. ISTVS members receive a 50% discount on the registration fee.
Quantum Computing in Mobility – Myth or Reality?
Thursday, 8 September at 07:00 Detroit, 12:00 London, 16:30 Mumbai.
Carbon Capture & Utilisation: Harnessing the Power of CO2 for Useful Materials in Mobility
Thursday, 22 September at 07:00 Detroit, 12:00 London, 16:30 Mumbai
If you cannot attend in person, register anyway and you will receive access to a recording of the events. These are the next in a series of online technical discussions that have been devised and delivered by the FISITA Technical Committee, enabling a regular expert community to engage, explore and assess the impact of the new technologies on the industry.
Read MoreRegistration open for 2022 ISTVS Americas Symposium
Details | The 2022 ISTVS Americas Symposium will take place over 2 full days, October 6 and 7, with a reception the evening before on October 5. There will be a poster session during the conference. Technical presentations and group discussions are planned during the dinner and lunch time.
Read MoreCall for Papers | EAEC MVT 2022
We are pleased to invite you to participate to the EAEC-MVT 2022, the 17th European Automotive Congress, organized by EAEC (European Automobile Engineers Cooperation) and SIAR (Society of Automotive Engineers of Romania) together with UPT (Politehnica University Timișoara), which will be held in Timișoara, Romania, on 26-28 October 2022.
Read MoreHarbin Institute of Technology | May 9th, 2022
VIEW RECORDING | In this ISTVS Student Research Seminar, we welcome five graduate student researchers connected to the organizing committee of this year’s 11th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of the ISTVS to talk about their research. Topics include: granular dynamics, intelligent control of wheeled mobile robots, the design of metal flexible wheels for the pressurized lunar rover, terrain classification, terrain mechanical properties sensing, terramechanical mapping, navigation for planetary rovers, wheel soil interaction model, soil bin test, the coupling simulation of FEM and DEM, robot manipulation, including imitation learning, convex optimization, multi-objective optimization, combination of learning with control, the unified contact parameters definition to describe the multi-modal robot-terrain interaction, and motion uncertainty calculations for hybrid robot path planning.
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Carl Becker | Parameterisation of Tyres with Large Lugs | May 20, 2022
Carl Becker, Ph.D., Vehicle Dynamics Group, University of Pretoria. Carl Becker’s work looks at the importance of using artificial terrain in a laboratory environment that is representative of in-field terrains to characterize tyres and the effect of tyre wear. The presentation will cover the doctoral work Carl did to investigate changes in tyre characteristics with tyre wear, terrain interaction, and terrain characteristics of large lug tyres.
Read MoreUpcoming opportunities to get involved with FISITA
We are pleased to share information on two upcoming FISITA events from Sarah Nagle, FISITA Society Member Manager. If you decide to attend, a small portion of your registration fee will return to support ISTVS! // FISITA Technology Discussion March 2022, AI and Hybridisation Techniques, 17 Mar 2022, Online, 11:00 Detroit, 15:00 London, 20:30 Mumbai // EuroBrake 2022, International braking technology community & event, 17 May 2022 to 19 May 2022, Online Sessions
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Theunis Botha | Camera-based measurements in terramechanics and off-road tyre research | March 16, 2022
Theunis Botha, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, Vehicle Dynamics Group, University of Pretoria. The presentation will present camera-based measurement techniques developed at the University of Pretoria’s Vehicle Dynamics Group. The methods allow useful measurements to be obtained for vehicle research with the presentation focused on off-road terrain and vehicles.
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Peter Kiss & Nihal Salman | Research results and laboratory at the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences | March 09, 2022
Dr. Peter Kiss, Professor of Biosystems Engineering, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Science. Dr. Peter Kiss and Ph.D. candidate Nihal Salman discuss a state-of-the-art on load-bearing capacity of soil as a homogeneous finite half-space and ongoing research in terramechanics and land locomotion.
Read MorePaul Ayers | Development of a physics-based dynamic visco-elastic vehicle-soil interaction | Feb 19, 2022
Dr. Paul Ayers, ISTVS Fellow, Biosystems Engineering Professor Emeritus, University of Tennessee. The Next Generation NATO Reference Mobility Model (NG-NRMM) provides an opportunity for the utilization of physics-based Vehicle Terrain Interaction models. This presentation provides the framework for possible vehicle-soil interaction components to assist model development. The physics-based components include tire placement, surface loading, stress distribution, time-dependent soil compression (multi-pass), preconsolidation stresses, soil rebound, lateral displacement, slip sinkage, and soil bulldozing.
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