Update 2023-03-14
Two weeks to submit a technical paper // Submit a technical paper abstract for the FISITA World Congress. This September you could be presenting your ideas to an audience of the world's leading mobility professionals. If your paper is chosen, you will receive a 50% discount on your delegate ticket to the TMCE. This could give you access to all four days of the World Congress, as well as the inaugural Intelligent Safety Conference Europe, World Mobility Summit and EuroBrake.
ISTVS Member discount announced // As a member of ISTVS, you are entitled to a 20% discount on delegate tickets. Email soonest Lutz Richter, lutzrichter2@gmx.de
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Call for Papers
The 16th European-African Regional Conference of the ISTVS welcomes original and previously unpublished research and review papers describing results of research relevant to terrain-vehicle systems. The conference includes these thematic tracks: soil mechanical characterization; off-road mobility modeling; soil compaction; driving systems of off-road vehicles and machines; innovative concepts of tires, wheels, and tracks; propulsion systems and engines; vetronics; autonomous and robotic systems; metrology in terramechanics. Full submissions information: 2023.istvs.org/submissions
Read MoreMessage from Heidi Howard, ISTVS Deputy General Secretary for the Americas
The ISTVS 2022 Americas Symposium in Montreal, Canada, this past October finally brought together Americas members for the first time since 2019. We express our deep appreciation and gratitude for the significant lift by Professor Jozsef Kovecses and his research team. Professor Kovecses’ persistence over the last three years resulted in two wonderful events, the first-ever ISTVS online conference and the first return to in-person events in Montreal. Not only was it fantastic to see our friends and research colleagues, it was also the first opportunity for many of us to exchange research in person.
The Americas Symposium would not have been possible without the support and interest of our members. Remember now is the time to renew your ISTVS membership in the ISTVS Member Portal. Additionally, I would like to challenge my fellow ISTVS members to introduce the researchers and students you mentor to ISTVS and the Journal of Terramechanics. The ISTVS has started the creation of student chapters at universities. This affords the opportunity for students to serve as officers in an international society at the local chapter level.
As a young researcher, my mentor provided the opportunity for me to present my research in Alaska. Without his encouragement of my involvement in ISTVS, I would not have had the opportunities to collaborate and develop the extensive network of fellow researchers that I now have. ISTVS has been critical in the development of my research network. As a female researcher, I cannot overstate the significance of other female ISTVS member encouragement and support. I want to pass along to my team how involvement in ISTVS can support their goals and research efforts.
I hope to see you at the 16th European-African Regional Conference this fall in Lublin, Poland.
Heidi R. Howard
ISTVS Deputy General Secretary for the Americas
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Adriana Daca | Predicting planetary rover mobility in reduced gravity | January 31st, 2023
RECORDING | STUDENT RESEARCH SEMINAR — Traversing granular regolith, especially in reduced gravity environments, remains a potential challenge for wheeled rovers. Mitigating hazards for planetary exploration rovers requires testing in representative environments, but direct Earth-based testing fails to account for the effect of reduced gravity on the soil itself. The talk considers experimental approaches, and results from recent on-ground experiments evaluating the granular scaling laws in a cohesive lunar soil simulant are presented. Additionally, application of granular scaling laws to testing potential future lunar rovers under development by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is demonstrated. Finally, guidelines for conducting and interpreting 1-g mobility tests for lunar rovers are outlined.
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President’s Message
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!
Read More2023—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.
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