RobotX Short-Seminar on 21.Mar.2024
Guest talk by MathWorks on Developing Offroad Autonomy with MATLAB
When: 11:00 to 12:00, 21.03.24
Where: LEE E-101
What:
Title: Developing Offroad Autonomy with MATLAB
Speaker: Christoph Kammer Dr. sc. ETH
Abstract: Recent tech progress is making it easier for heavy equipment makers to embrace autonomy, but creating autonomous offroad vehicles is complex. They need to work reliably in rugged places and perform challenging tasks. Many teams with various skills must collaborate, and testing hardware in tough conditions is costly and risky. So, simulations are vital to cut risks, refine algorithms, and boost performance. In this seminar, we will do a deep dive into how we developed a simulation framework for an autonomous excavator. A CAD model acts as the single source of truth for a high-fidelity physical simulation model and a motion planner representation, as well as a 3D model in Unreal Engine. We will take a detailed tour of the various import workflows, the physical modelling capabilities and the co-simulation framework in order to equip you with the knowledge to adopt the technology in your own projects..
Bio: Christoph Kammer is a senior application engineer at MathWorks in Switzerland. He supports customers in the robotics and autonomous systems domain in the areas of control and optimization, virtual scenario simulation and digital twinning. Christoph has a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zürich and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from EPFL, where he specialized in control design and the control and modelling of electromechanical systems and power systems.