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Acoustics and Vibration

Robotics and Multibody Mechanics

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• Cobots - Manufacturing Robots
• Walking Robots
• Valorisation
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Multibody systems dynamics

• Baraff Papers and Technical Reports. Fast algorithm for dynamic simulation.
  
• Computer simulations in physics.
  
• Interactive Physics Simulation Resources.
  
• Open Dynamics Engine.
  
• Multibody System Dynamics: Research Activities. Site with an overview of the multibody community.
  
• Numerical Analysis of Multibody Systems. PDF-book from García de Jalón and Bayo.
  
• Homepage of Mihai Anitescu, Time-stepping Methods for Multibody Dynamics with contact and friction.
  

Dynamic simulation resources

• Orocos. Free software project for robotics.
  
• DynaMechs, A Multibody Dynamic Simulation Library.
  
• ROBOOP, A Robotics Object Oriented Package in C++ .
  
• EasyDyn. C++ library for dynamic simulation.
  
• Robotran. Symbolical creation of the equations of motion (UCL, Belgium).
  
• NovodeX Physics SDK.
  

Dynamic simulation packages

• Modelica.
  
• Virtual Physics, The realtime dynamics simulation library. LINK SEEMS TO BE DEAD AT THE MOMENT!
  
• freeCAD. Free package, some advertising though (pop-up).
  
• Universal Mechanism. Package for dynamic simulation of planar and spatial mechanical systems.
  
• WATT Mechanism Suite. Package for synthesis of mechanical systems.
  
• ADAMS. Functional virtual prototyping tools for building, testing, reviewing, and improving mechanical systems before committing to physical prototypes.
  
• DADS. Computer-aided design.
  
• Concurrent-Dynamics.
  

C++ programming

• Allegro: downloads.
  
• Allegro tutorial.
  
• Numerical Recipies in C: The Art of Scientific Computing. Online book about numerical integration techniques, root finding, Fourier transforms, random numbers generators and the like. Excellent.
  
• Handbook of mathematical functions (pop-ups!).
  

openGL programming

• openGL, The source
  
• The red book, openGL Manual
  
• PYopenGL, all GL,GLU,GLU and GLE commands listed here.
  
• openGL Programming Guide.
  
• GLUT Tutorial (There may be some pop-ups).
  
• Game Tutorials: openGL. a lot of examples.
  
• NullTerminator. openGL WIN32 and texture tutorials.
  
• NeHe Productions. A lot of openGL tutorials.
  
• CSC 418/2504 Lecture Topics. openGL Lecture Notes.
  
• freeGlut. openGL Utility Toolkit fully compatible with GLUT and containing updates/improvements.
  

Multibody systems conferences

• EUROMECH Colloquium 476, Real-time Simulation and Virtual Reality Applications of Multibody Systems, 13-16 March 2006, Ferrol, Spain.
  
• ASME 2005 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, fifth ASME International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics and Control, 24th-28th September 2005, Long Beach, California.
  
• ENOC 2005, fifth EUROMECH Nonlinear Dynamics Conference, 7th-12th August 2005, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
  
• ECCOMAS Thematic Conference 2005, Multibody Dynamics 2005, 21th-24th August 2005, Madrid, Spain.
  
• MuSMe 2005, 2nd International Symposium on Multibody Systems and Mechatronics, 6th-9th March 2005, Uberlandia, Brazil.
  
• XI DINAME, International Symposium on Dynamic Problems of Mechanics, 28th February-4th March 2005, Ouro Preto, Brazil.
  
• ECCOMAS 2004, 4th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, 24th-28th July 2004, Jyvaskyla, Finland.
  
• ICTAM 2004, XXI International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 15th-21th August 2004, Warsaw, Poland.
  
• MBD-MST 2004, Multi-body Dynamics: Monitoring & Simulation Techniques, 12th-13th July 2004, Leicestershire, UK.
  
• ROMANSKY 2004, 15th CISM-IFToMM Symposium on Robot Design, Dynamics and Control, 14th-18th June 2004, Long Montreal, Canada.
  

Computer Graphics

• NATUREWIZARD. This site is dedicated to the graphical simulation of nature.
• Homepage of Doug L. James. Nice animations (collision detection). Take a look at the teaching part as well...
• Homepage of Ron Fedkiw. Lots about fluid dynamics, solid mechanics and computer graphics.
• Siggraph papers. Links provided by Ke-Sen Huang.
• MIRALab. Research group at the University of Geneva.
  

Fun

• Cursor grabbing rabbit.
• http://www.vectorlounge.com/04_amsterdam/jam/wireframe.html. Inverse kinematics by Andries Odendaal. LINK BROKEN...
• Big Spanish Castle.
• Tetka, the falling woman.
• Keep on zooming.
  

Own source code

MULTIBODY CODE IS NOT ONLINE !

• generateLinEquSolver.cpp. This program generates a specific solver for a symmetrical set of linear equations of given dimension. It uses the Cholesky decomposition method. Not an all-purpose code!
• Pics.
  

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