MBMAC - MultiBody Microsystems Analysis Code
[2008-?]
MBDyn serves as the basis of a multibody analysis capability dedicated to micro-mechanical systems, not limited to aerial vehicles.
News
- 2013-03-22: the manuscript “A Terradynamics of Legged Locomotion on Granular Media”, by C. Li, T. Zhang, D. I. Goldman is published on Science, 22 March 2013, Vol. 339 no. 6126 pp. 1408-1412, doi:10.1126/science.1229163. The simulations are based on MBDyn; see the supplementary material for discussion.
- 2013-01-22: R. Malhan, J. Baeder, I. Chopra, P. Masarati, “Investigation of Aerodynamics of Flapping Wings for MAV Applications using Experiments and CFD-CSD Analysis”, 5th International Specialists’ Meeting on Unmanned Rotorcraft and Network Centric Operations, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, January 22-24, 2013.
- 2013-02-15: the manuscript “Ground fluidization promotes rapid running of a lightweight robot” by T. Zhang, F. Qian, C. Li, P. Masarati, A. M. Hoover, P. Birkmeyer, A. Pullin, R. S. Fearing, D. I. Goldman is accepted for publication by The International Journal of Robotics Research, the no. 1 ranked Robotics journal.
- 2012-12-19: Tingnan Zhang developed molecular dynamics as a CUDA run-time loadable module for MBDyn.
- 2012-09-21: molecular dynamics (MD) is used to model granular soil in a dedicated module for MBDyn.
- 2012-08-31: MBDyn 1.5.0 is the first public release of the membrane element.
- 2012-07-09: F. Qian, T. Zhang, C. Li, P. Masarati, A. Hoover, P. Birkmeyer, A. Pullin, R. Fearing, D. Goldman, “Walking and running on yielding and fluidizing ground” presented at 2012 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS 2012), July 9-13, 2012, Sydney, Australia. (awarded best student paper: congratulations, Feifei!)
- 2012-05-29: T. Solcia, M. Morandini, P. Masarati, “A Membrane Element for Micro-Aerial Vehicle Fluid-Structure Interaction”, IMSD 2012, Stuttgart, Germany, May 29-June 1, 2012.
- 2012-04-23: R. Malhan, V. K. Lakshminarayan, P. Masarati, J. Baeder, I. Chopra, M. Morandini, G. Quaranta, “Investigation of Aerodynamics of Flexible Flapping Wings for MAV Applications: Methodology Validation”, AIAA SDM, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 23-26, 2012.
- 2012-01-03: F. Qian, T. Zhang, C. Li, J. Shen, A. M. Hoover, P. Birkmeyer, A. Pullin, R. S. Fearing, D. I. Goldman, P. Masarati, “Legged locomotion of a bio-inspired lightweight robot on granular media” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), Charleston, SC, January 3-7, 2012.
- 2011-11-01: M. Benedict, M. Mattaboni, I. Chopra, P. Masarati, “Aeroelastic Analysis of a Micro-Air-Vehicle-Scale Cycloidal Rotor”, AIAA Journal, 2011, 49(11):2430-2443 doi:10.2514/1.J050756.
- 2011-07-04: P. Masarati, M. Morandini, G. Quaranta, R. Vescovini, “Multibody Analysis of a Micro-Aerial Vehicle Flapping Wing”, Multibody 2011, July 4-7, 2011, Brussels, Belgium.
- 2011-06-27: P. Masarati, M. Morandini, G. Quaranta, D. Chandar, B. Roget, J. Sitaraman, “Tightly Coupled CFD/Multibody Analysis of Flapping-Wing Micro-Aerial Vehicles”, 29th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, June 27-30, 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
- 2011-06-21: MBDyn 1.4.0 is the first public release of the shell element.
- 2010-09-03: Pierangelo Masarati delivers a C++ wrapper of the external structural mapping force element peer library for fluid-structure interaction, to be released soon (eventually released with MBDyn 1.3.17).
- 2010-08-20: MAV semi-span wing flapping in vacuo here (a work in progress).
- 2010-05-25: M. Mattaboni, M. Benedict, P. Masarati, and I. Chopra, “MAV-Scale Cycloidal Rotor Multibody Aeroelastic Analysis”, IMSD 2010, Lappeenranta, Finland, May 25-27, 2010.
- 2010-05-17: Pierangelo Masarati delivers a generic external structural mapping force element and its companion peer library in C and Python, for fluid-structure interaction, to be released soon (eventually released with MBDyn 1.3.16).
- 2010-05-01: Marco Morandini and Riccardo Vescovini deliver a geometrically exact 4-node shell element, to be released soon (eventually released with MBDyn 1.4.0).
- 2010-04-12: M. Benedict, M. Mattaboni, I. Chopra, and P. Masarati, “Aeroelastic Analysis of a MAV-Scale Cycloidal Rotor”, 51th SDM Conference, AIAA-2010-2888, April 12-15, 2010, Orlando, Florida.
- 2010-04-08: Jinwei Shen (NIA) gives an introductory presentation about MBDyn to an Army Research Laboratory (ARL) team at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Joppa, MD.
- 2010-03-15: the MBDyn team at Politecnico di Milano is awarded a grant by ARL to support the investigation of avian-based flapping wing aeroelasticity (duration: 1 year).
- 2009-08-01: Mattia Mattaboni delivers an unsteady aerodynamics module and a cycloidal rotor induced velocity model.
- 2009-04-01: Mattia Mattaboni spends 5 months at the Microsystem Mechanics Center of the University of Maryland working on cycloidal rotor aeroelasticity.
- 2009-01-12: four-day seminar at Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center, University of Maryland, on “Multibody Dynamics” and MBDyn.
- 2008-10-30: the MBDyn team at Politecnico di Milano joins the project (the only non-US partner in the project).
Areas of activity
- Cycloidal rotor aeroelasticity (in cooperation with Dr. Chopra’s team at University of Maryland)
- Avian-based flapping wing aeroelasticity (in cooperation with Dr. Chopra’s team at University of Maryland and Dr. Sitaraman’s team at University of Wyoming)
- Ground and hybrid Air-Ground Vehicle dynamics (in cooperation with Dr. Goldman’s team at Georgia Tech)
Points of contact @ Politecnico di Milano
Principal Investigator:
Senior Investigators:
Investigators:
- Dr. Mattia Mattaboni
Contributions from:
- Prof. Riccardo Vescovini (Graduate Student)
- Dr. Tommaso Solcia
Related links
- Microsystem Mechanics Center, University of Maryland
- MAST/CTA
- Dr. Goldman’s Crab Lab at Georgia Tech