| Paolo Mantegazza | initiated the project in the early 1990s. He worked on prototyping the F77 version of the software, called MBDin, which was sort of a proof-of-concept implementation. He currently leads the team. |
| Massimiliano Lanz | coordinated many rotorcraft analysis developments. |
| Gian Luca Ghiringhelli | coordinated many multidisciplinary analysis developments. |
| Giampiero Bindolino | had an important role in interfacing the initial F77 version with free wake aerodynamics. He is also contributing his continuous support to the current version. |
| Gabriele Gilardi | worked on the initial code as a Ph.D. student, but I don't recall what his exact contribution was. |
| Andrea Colferai | worked at the modal body implementation in the F77 version. |
| Stefano Marazzani | worked as an undergrad student at the beam, rotor and aerodynamic elements in the F77 version of the code. |
| Pierangelo Masarati | in 1995 joined the MBDin team while undergraduate student, developing the control-related genels and the piezoelectric beam elements. In 1997, while Ph.D. student, he started recoding MBDyn in its current form (from F77 to C++). He currently coordinates the development and maintenance of MBDyn and other related projects (personal home page). |
| Felice Felippone | as undergrad student, implemented the modal body back in the new version of the code. |
| Lamberto Puggelli | as undergrad student, implemented the hydraulic components library. |
| Giuseppe Quaranta | as undergrad student, parallelized the code by adding a Schur domain decomposition solver and incorporating Metis as a partitioning tool, all under the MPI umbrella. As Ph.D. student, he worked on the integration with sophisticated aerodynamics, including wake modeling and CFD, on matrix-free nonlinear solvers, periodic stability analysis by means of transient response analysis and system identification, and more. Now, as Post Doc., he is a stable member of the team (personal home page). |
| Leonardo Cassan | as undergrad student, worked at the ADAMS2MBDyn project, a translator from ADAMS models in adm format into MBDyn raw input files. You can find what's available in contrib/a2m (essentially abandoned). |
| Marco Morandini | as Post Doc., is currently developing advanced elasticity models, working on the data structure, new integration schemes, friction, tire and brake models, and envisioning the new user interface (personal home page). |
| Stefania Gualdi | as Post Doc., is currently working at aircraft landing and ground handling qualities, developing tire, shock absorber and the related element library. |
| Michele Attolico | while Ph.D. student, exploited RTAI to allow hard and user-space real-time simulations, and worked on real-time applications and improvements. |
| Matteo Martegani | while graduate student, along with Marco Morandini, worked on the improvement of the RTAI support with netrpc using RTNet for remote hardware-in-the-loop simulation monitoring. |
| Patrick Rix | as an independent user, contributed to the NetCDF output and to wind-turbine modeling aspects. |
| Alessandro Fumagalli | as Ph.D. student, is currently working at formulation and implementation aspects related to robotics. He implemented the total joint family and is currently working at the inverse dynamics problem module. |
| Luca Cavagna | as Ph.D. student, is working at interfacing MBDyn with external CFD solvers (FOI's EDGE right now). |
| Michele Frumusa | as graduate student, is interfacing MBDyn with FEA software for detailed stress analysis from coarse multibody model dynamics. |