Project Grant 2209791
- This National Science Foundation award provides $257,096 to New Jersey Institute of Technology under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to augment the Chrono computer simulation platform. Chrono is an open-source simulation engine used across multiple disciplines to model interactions between mechanical systems, environments, and humans. This award will upgrade Chrono to incorporate recent computational dynamics innovations like improved differential equation solvers...
- This three-year, $199,872 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to augment the Chrono computer simulation platform to better simulate autonomous agents and human-autonomous agent interactions. Led by Carnegie Mellon University, the multi-disciplinary team of 40 researchers will upgrade Chrono to incorporate recent computational dynamics innovations to generate machine learning training data, facilitate comparison of...
- This $200,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), will support the augmentation of the open-source Chrono computer simulation platform. A multi-disciplinary team of 40 researchers from Georgia Tech Research Corporation will upgrade Chrono to enable the generation of machine learning training data, facilitate comparison of autonomous agent design...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded $410,164 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program to The University of Iowa from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The funding supports augmenting the open-source Chrono computer simulation platform to enable simulating autonomous agents and human-autonomous agent interaction. Specifically, the award enhances Chrono in several ways. It enables generating machine learning training...
- The National Science Foundation awarded $201,544 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to The Johns Hopkins University from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025. This Project Grant will support augmenting and validating the Chrono physics-based simulation framework to empower research on autonomous agents operating in complex, unstructured dynamic environments that may interact with humans or other agents. Key deliverables include enabling Chrono...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $657,210 to the University of Wisconsin System to develop open instructional materials and deliver a cybertraining program focused on enabling the use of digital twin technologies in robotics. The project aims to create instructional materials, including tokenized classes, Jupyter notebooks, and new Chrono models and documentation, to train...
- This $360,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program will enable the University of Wisconsin-Madison to enhance the widely used Accel-Sim simulation infrastructure. The project will modernize and expand Accel-Sim's performance and energy models to support the latest GPU architectures, including features like transformer engines and sparse tensor cores. It will also broaden the diversity of accelerators...
- This National Science Foundation project grant of $376,203 supports research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop new expressive and differentiable robotics simulators from 2022 to 2026. The research aims to address key limitations in existing simulators that hamper accurate physical modeling of robots and hinder closing the gap between simulation and real-world performance. Specifically, the researchers will establish the mathematical foundations for robotics simulators with...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports a collaborative research effort led by Princeton University to expand the capabilities of the open-source Chronus Quantum (ChronusQ) software platform. The $294,053 award will enable the development of novel computational methods to simulate quantum dynamics and chemical processes with unprecedented accuracy, with applications in sustainable energy,...
- This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program aims to enhance the GEM5 simulation infrastructure to advance computer hardware and systems research. Key objectives include: Expanding the GEM5 simulator's capabilities to model future devices, improve accuracy of current models, add support for emerging hardware, and scale simulation performance. These improvements will enable researchers to better...
This $3.75 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the augmentation of the Chrono computer simulation platform at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from July 2022 through June 2025. Chrono is an open-source simulation engine used across multiple fields to model interactions between mechanical systems, environments, and humans in applications like lunar rover engineering, vehicle design, wind turbines, and more. Under this award, a multi-disciplinary team of 40 researchers will upgrade Chrono to incorporate recent advances in computational dynamics, enable machine learning training data generation, and facilitate comparison of autonomous agent design tradeoffs through simulation of complex scenarios. Notable upgrades include a faster differential algebraic equations solver, new contact modeling approaches, flexible multibody dynamics simulation, and distributed real-time simulation capabilities. Upon completion, Chrono will also integrate with the Gazebo robotics simulator and power the largest U.S. driving simulator. This research aims to increase the role of simulation data in innovation and discovery.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $1.9m | 6/10/22 |