The 2024 technical tour will visit the demonstration site for smart construction vehicles with information and communication technology (ICT) at the Komatsu IoT Center in nearby Chiba. Participants will receive an overview of smart construction, observe a demonstration, and have the opportunity to test drive an ICT construction vehicle.
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Off-Road Brawn with AI Brains
Professor Vladimir Vantsevich, ISTVS Journal of Terramechanics co-Editor-in-Chief, sent in a link on his research institute, the Autonomous Vehicle Mobility Institute (AVMI) at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). AVMI is featured in a recent issue of the school magazine, WPI Journal: https://wp.wpi.edu/journal/articles/off-road-brawn-with-ai-brains/ — the article is a very proficient introduction to the field of terramechanics!
Read More12th Machine-Ground Interaction Consortium (MaGIC) meeting
From Dan Negrut:
Read MoreTogether with my lab mate Radu Serban, I would like to invite you to attend the 12th edition of the Machine-Ground Interaction Consortium (MaGIC) meeting. This face-to-face event will be held on September 11-12 at UW-Madison. This year, we will emphasize AI and Digital Twin technologies in terramechanics, mechatronics, autonomy, and bio-robotics, touching on both terrestrial and extraterrestrial applications. This is a very informal event that seeks to bring together individuals from industry, academia, and research labs.
AVMI Research Scientist Open Positions
We are pleased to share these open positions working with ISTVS Journal of Terramechanics Editor-in-Chief Vladimir Vantsevich at the the Autonomous Vehicle Mobility Institute, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
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August 21, 2024 | Dr. Brad Hansen and Mr. Michael Parker | ERDC Soft Soil and Cold Regions Mobility Research
This talk will explore how the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center - ERDC (previously known as WES) approaches mobility for ground vehicles operating in adverse conditions. In particular, this presentation talks about mobility research on soft soils and cold regions from Dr. Brad Hansen and Mr. Michael Parker
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Nominations open for ISTVS member awards
Nominations Open | At the 21st International and 12th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of the ISTVS (ISTVS2024), the achievements of two esteemed members of our community will be honored with these ISTVS awards: the Bekker-Reece-Radforth Award and the Söhne-Hata-Jurecka Award for Young Engineers/Scientists.
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Letter from Dr. Corina Sandu, ISTVS President
On behalf of the ISTVS, the Board of Directors, and myself, thank you for being part of our society! Many exciting activities have happened since last year’s letter. As we continue to adapt to new modalities of work and innovating ways to interact, 2023 left its mark and 2024 is well on its way! I'm pleased to share these updates on the activities of your Society.
Read MoreJune 19, 2024 | Zeinab El-Sayegh, Ph.D. | Influence of Sand Moisture Content on Truck Tire Performance
Zeinab El-Sayegh, PhD, PEng, Department of Automotive and Mechatronics Engineering, Ontario Tech University, will introduce the concept of virtual soil moisturization and its impact on the performance of 315/80R22.5-sized truck tires. The truck tires are simulated using multiple layers and materials in a Finite Element Analysis (FEA) environment. Moist sand, composed of layered water and sand particles, is simulated using the Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) technique. The tire-sand interaction is defined by a hybrid FEA-SPH interaction model, and the tire's tractive performance—including tractive effort, motion resistance coefficient, and tire sinkage—will be presented.
Read MoreMay 22, 2024 | Christopher Goodin, Ph.D., MAVS
Christopher Goodin, Ph.D., Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, Mississippi State University, will introduce the MAVS and show some examples of how it is being used in the classroom as an instructional tool for autonomous vehicles, by graduate students for research, and by researchers around the world in a variety of military and commercial applications. The technical underpinnings of the MAVS will also be presented.
Read MoreApril 25, 2024 | Dan Negrut, Ph.D., Terramechanics Models for Lunar Robotics Applications
Dan Negrut, NVIDIA CUDA Fellow, Bernard A. and Frances M. Weideman Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Simulation-Based Engineering Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Our lab has worked on several projects aimed at improving the mobility of autonomous rovers operating in lunar conditions. The design of such rovers increasingly relies on computer simulation. The talk will cover two main topics: it presents an overview of terramechanics models in robotics, and it briefly describes the sensing used in lunar mobility simulations.
Read MoreMarch 20, 2024 | Mohit Nitin Shenvi, Ph.D., Compacted Snow Testing Methodology and Instrumentation
Mohit Nitin Shenvi, Ph.D., Terramechanics, Multibody, and Vehicle Systems Laboratory, Virginia Tech: This talk focuses on the literature of snow characterization and on an analysis performed to identify the extent to which testing conditions affect the traction coefficient of tires using the ASTM 14-inch Standard Reference Test Tire (SRTT) on snow. Another area of focus will be the performance evaluation of an custom in-house device against the Clegg impact hammer and CTI penetrometer when employed in the field for measurements on a compacted snow test track at the Smithers Winter Test Center.
Read MorePaweł Tomiło | Hybrid-locomotion lunar rover | March 7, 2024
Paweł Tomiło, Ph.D., Lublin University of Technology. The session will introduce the hybrid-locomotion rover concept. The design of a hybrid robot combines the characteristics of wheeled and legged robots. The rover is equipped with a crawling mechanism that will allow it to climb steep slopes areas where a wheeled vehicle could slip due to loose ground. The concept of the rover will be discussed, the current state of research, and future work on the development of the rover will be presented.
Read MoreFISITA World Mobility Summit 2024 location announced: Warren, Michigan, USA
We are excited to announce that the FISITA World Mobility Summit 2024 will be taking place on 13-14 November at the General Motors Technical Centre, Warren, Michigan, USA. The event is a unique annual gathering of technology leaders from many of the world’s leading automotive and mobility brands working with the FISITA community. The exclusive nature and atmosphere make it one of the most important events in the international mobility systems leadership calendar. There will be plenty of opportunities to network and engage with your FISITA peers.
Read MoreBest Papers of 11th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of the ISTVS, February 1, 2024
RECORDING | TERRABITE — The 11th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of the ISTVS was held online in September 2022, hosted by the Harbin Institute of Technology, PR China, and included presenters from around the world. The Conference Committee identified papers whose authors were encouraged to submit manuscripts for a Special Issue of the Society’s Journal of Terramechanics. The Special Issue that resulted represents a selection of the best papers of the conference: Best Papers of 11th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of the ISTVS. ISTVS has been hosting online events for ongoing and recent research on terramechanics and terrain-vehicle systems under our Digital Event Series since 2021. Recordings from the series are posted to our YouTube channel. Please join us in two upcoming sessions dedicated to the best papers from this Special Issue. This first session is on February 1.
Read MoreISTVS 2024 dates announced
We are pleased to announce the location and dates for the 2024 conference, the 20th International and 12th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of the ISTVS. Mark your calendars to join your terramechanics colleagues in Yokohama, Japan, October 28-31, 2024.
Read MoreISTVS 2023 Lublin abstracts published to the conference website
We’re pleased to announce that abstracts for all the full papers and abstract-only submissions to ISTVS 2023 in Lublin this October have been published to the conference website at 2023.istvs.org.
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