Publications related to Dynamical simulation

BamX: Rethinking Deployability in Architecture through Weaving

Mark Pauly, Stefana Parascho, Seiichi Eduardo Suzuki Erazo, Yingying Ren, Tian Chen

Deployable gridshells are a class of planar-to-spatial structures that achievea 3D curved geometry by inducing bending on a flat grid of elastic beams. However, theslender nature of these beams often conflicts with the structure’s load-bearing capacity.To ...

De Gruyter2023

"A physics-based model for wind turbine wake expansion in the atmospheric boundary layer"

Fernando Porté Agel, Dara Vahidi

Vahidi, Dara, and Fernando Porté-Agel. "A physics-based model for wind turbine wake expansion in the atmospheric boundary layer." Journal of Fluid Mechanics 943 (2022). ...

Zenodo2022

Vision-based Flocking in Aerial Robot Swarms

Fabian Maximilian Schilling

Aerial robot swarms have the potential to perform time-critical and dangerous tasks such as disaster response without compromising human safety. However, their reliance on external infrastructure such as global positioning for localization and wireless net ...

EPFL2022

Learning to Simulate Realistic LiDARs

Pascal Fua, Benoît Alain René Guillard

Simulating realistic sensors is a challenging part in data generation for autonomous systems, often involving carefully handcrafted sensor design, scene properties, and physics modeling. To alleviate this, we introduce a pipeline for data-driven simulation ...

2022

Gazebo Fluids: SPH-based simulation of fluid interaction with articulated rigid body dynamics

Auke Ijspeert, Jonathan Patrick Arreguit O'Neill, Wei Wang, Emmanouil Angelidis

Physical simulation is an indispensable component of robotics simulation platforms that serves as the basis for a plethora of research directions. Looking strictly at robotics, the common characteristic of the most popular physics engines, such as ODE, DAR ...

IEEE2022

Virtual Capacitor Concept for Effective Real-Time MMC Simulations

Drazen Dujic, Stefan Milovanovic, Min Luo

In this paper, the real-time simulation model of the modular multilevel converter was split into several independent parts through the use of the virtual capacitor concept. As a result, the number of state-space matrices the real-time solver needs to take ...

2021

Model-Based Interpretation of Measurements for Fatigue Evaluation of Existing Reinforced Concrete Bridges

Ian Smith, Eugen Brühwiler, Sai Ganesh Sarvotham Pai, Imane Bayane

New methods are required for sustainable and economical management of bridges. Efficient management can be achieved by a detailed understanding of bridge behavior through monitoring and model-based data interpretation. This paper presents a methodology to ...

2021

GarNet++: Improving Fast and Accurate Static 3D Cloth Draping by Curvature Loss

Pascal Fua, Mathieu Salzmann, Victor Constantin, Shaifali Parashar, Erhan Gündogdu

In this paper, we tackle the problem of static 3D cloth draping on virtual human bodies. We introduce a two-stream deep network model that produces a visually plausible draping of a template cloth on virtual 3D bodies by extracting features from both the b ...

2022

Model-Class Selection Using Clustering and Classification for Structural Identification and Prediction

Ian Smith, Sai Ganesh Sarvotham Pai, Masoud Sanayei

Structural identification using physics-based models and subsequent prediction have much potential to enhance civil infrastructure asset-management decision-making. Interpreting monitoring information in the presence of multiple uncertainty sources and sys ...

2021

GarNet: A Two-Stream Network for Fast and Accurate 3D Cloth Draping

Pascal Fua, Mathieu Salzmann, Victor Constantin, Erhan Gündogdu

While Physics-Based Simulation (PBS) can accurately drape a 3D garment on a 3D body, it remains too costly for real-time applications, such as virtual try-on. By contrast, inference in a deep network, requiring a single forward pass, is much faster. Taking ...

IEEE2019

Sim-to-real transfer reinforcement learning for control of thermal effects of an atmospheric pressure plasma jet

Berend Smit, Matthew David Witman

Applications of atmospheric pressure plasma jets (APPJs) present challenging feedback control problems due to the complexity of the plasma-substrate interactions. The plasma treatment of complex substrates is particularly sensitive to changes in the physic ...

2019

Outdoor comfort simulation of complex architectural designs: a review of simulation tools from the designer perspective

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Emanuele Naboni

The expanding design interest in outdoor comfort design is today supported by a few software tools. Given their different user-friendliness, modelling environments and simulation engines, a rational inquiry is how they are integrated into the digital desig ...

2018

Physics-based Reconstruction and Animation of Humans

Alexandru Eugen Ichim

Creating digital representations of humans is of utmost importance for applications ranging from entertainment (video games, movies) to human-computer interaction and even psychiatrical treatments. What makes building credible digital doubles difficult is ...

EPFL2017

Reconstructing Personalized Anatomical Models for Physics-based Body Animation

Ladislav Kavan, Alexandru Eugen Ichim

We present a method to create personalized anatomical models ready for physics-based animation, using only a set of 3D surface scans. We start by building a template anatomical model of an average male which supports deformations due to both 1) subject-spe ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Building and Animating User-Specific Volumetric Face Rigs

Mark Pauly, Ladislav Kavan, Alexandru Eugen Ichim, Merlin Eléazar Nimier-David

Currently, the two main approaches to realistic facial animation are 1) blendshape models and 2) physics-based simulation. Blendshapes are fast and directly controllable, but it is not easy to incorporate features such as dynamics, collision resolution, or ...

The Eurographics Association2016

Mechanical form-finding of timber fabric structures

Seyed Sina Nabaei

How about fastening a knot? not with ropes... but with timber panels. Timber Fabric Structures (TFS) originate from such an inspiration. An architectural reinterpretation of fabric techniques (mainly braiding) using building scale timber panels to design ...

EPFL2014

The ALPS project release 2.0: open source software for strongly correlated systems

Jean-David Picon

We present release 2.0 of the ALPS (Algorithms and Libraries for Physics Simulations) project, an open source software project to develop libraries and application programs for the simulation of strongly correlated quantum lattice models such as quantum ma ...

2011

Numerical Simulations of a Prechamber Autoignition Engine Operating on Natural Gas

Daniel Favrat, Stefan Heyne, Grégory Millot

At our laboratory extensive research has been conducted on the conversion of conventional Diesel cogeneration engines to operation on natural gas and biogas. In the framework of this research, a numerical simulation of a prechamber autoignition gas engine ...

2011

Development of a natural gas reaction mechanism for engine simulations based on rapid compression machine experiments using a multi-objective optimisation strategy

Daniel Favrat, Stefan Heyne

The ignition delay times of CH4/C2H6/C3H8 mixtures representative of an average natural gas composition have been measured in a rapid compression machine (RCM) at the University of Lille. The pressure at the end of compression (EOC) varied from 13 to 21 ba ...

2008

Development of a Microsurgery Training System

Hannes Bleuler, Etienne Burdet, Fei Wang

Surgeons require significant training to acquire sufficient dexterity and hand-eye coordination to manipulate objects skilfully under the microscope. This paper presents a computer-based real-time simulation of microsurgery as well as the hardware setup. I ...

IEEE2008