Accession Number:

ADA566534

Title:

Investigating the Mobility of Light Autonomous Tracked Vehicles using a High Performance Computing Simulation Capability

Descriptive Note:

Conference paper

Corporate Author:

ARMY TANK AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER WARREN MI

Personal Author(s):

• Negrut, Dan
• Mazhar, Hammad
• Melanz, Daniel
• Lamb, David
• Jayakumar, Paramsothy
• Letherwood, Michael
• Jain, Abhinandan
• Quadrelli, Marco

Report Date:

2012-08-01

Pagination or Media Count:

22.0

Abstract:

This paper is concerned with the physics-based simulation of light tracked vehicles operating on rough deformable terrain. The focus is on small autonomous vehicles, which weigh less than 100 lb and move on deformable and rough terrain that is feature rich and no longer representable using a continuum approach. A scenario of interest is, for instance, the simulation of a reconnaissance mission for a high mobility lightweight robot where objects such as a boulder or a ditch that could otherwise be considered small for a truck or tank, become major obstacles that can impede the mobility of the light autonomous vehicle and negatively impact the success of its mission. Analyzing and gauging the mobility and performance of these light vehicles is accomplished through a modeling and simulation capability called ChronoEngine. ChronoEngine relies on parallel execution on Graphics Processing Unit GPU cards.

Descriptors:

• *HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
• *SIMULATION
• *TRACKED VEHICLES
• ENGINES
• LIGHTWEIGHT
• MISSIONS
• MOBILITY
• MODELS
• PARALLEL ORIENTATION
• PROCESSING EQUIPMENT
• RECONNAISSANCE
• ROBOTS
• SCENARIOS
• SELF OPERATION
• TERRAIN
• TRUCKS
• VEHICLES

Subject Categories:

• Combat Vehicles

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE