A Physics-Based Terrain Model for Off-Road Vehicle Simulations

Abstract

Contents: (1) Motivation & goals of project; (2) High level model Framework; (3) Detailed Calculation Flowchart; (4) Concentrates on advancing simulation by one time-step; (5) Examples of terrain response to various applied loading conditions; (6) Addressing performance issues through parallel computing; and (7) Conclusion.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 19, 2012
Accession Number
ADA583220

Entities

People

  • Alexander Reid
  • Andrew Seidl
  • Dan Negrut
  • George Bozdech
  • James O'kins
  • Justin Madsen
  • Paul Ayers

Organizations

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Addressing
  • Boundary Value Problems
  • Databases
  • Engineering
  • Geometry
  • Mechanics
  • Models
  • Motivation
  • Parallel Computing
  • Physics
  • Simulations
  • Soil Mechanics
  • Soil Models
  • Soil Science
  • Terrain Models
  • Terramechanics
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Robotics and Automation.