Vehicle dynamics simulation - Fish hook, off-road, rollover
Vehicle dynamics simulation - Fish hook, off-road, rollover
Read more at the Robotic Mobility Group's website: http://web.mit.edu/mobility/
Vehicle Dynamics Simulation - Fish Hook, Flat ground, Tip-up
Vehicle Dynamics Simulation - Fish Hook, Flat ground, Tip-up
Read more at the Robotic Mobility Group's website: http://web.mit.edu/mobility/
Vehicle Design Summit
Vehicle Design Summit
In 2006, Anna Jaffe '07, Robyn Allen '07 and Nii Armar '06, SM '09, launched the Vehicle Design Summit, a collaboration that included 25 college teams from across the globe to build within three years a plug-in electric hybrid car. More than 50 students from 21 universities came to MIT to ...
tinyKart: Snow Drifting
tinyKart: Snow Drifting
Snow drifting with an ultralight (25kg / 26kg filled with snow) electric go-kart during a March snowstorm. The kart has independent RWD and about five horsepower, so it puts on a good show. More info on the kart: http://scolton.blogspot.com/p/cap-kart.html#tinykart Tracked skateboard ...
Toyota's Tom Stricker on the Open Fuels Standard
The Open Fuels Standard: Solving the Chicken-and-Egg or Just Plain "Foul"?
Toyota’s Tom Stricker gives his take on the most effective way forward for the auto industry.
The City Car
The City Car
Conversation with Ryan Chin, Research Associate and PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab, about the CityCar electric automobile.
Terrafugia's 'Transition' - First flight
Terrafugia's 'Transition' - First flight
A prototype of what is being touted as the worlds first practical flying car takes to the air for the first time.
TED Talks 2012: Donald Sadoway
TED Talks 2012: Donald Sadoway — The missing link to renewable energy
Donald Sadoway is working on a battery miracle — an inexpensive, incredibly efficient, three-layered battery using “liquid metal."
Stabilizing a Vehicle Near Rollover: an Analogy to ...
Stabilizing a Vehicle Near Rollover: an Analogy to Cart-Pole Stabilization
This video contains animations of the two simulation results described in a conference paper presented at ICRA 2010. The results show tip-up of a vehicle on a surface with two different friction coefficients. In the first simulation, the surface friction coefficient is ...
Shared Human-Machine Control of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle ...
Shared Human-Machine Control of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV)
Read more about the Robotic Mobility Group at MIT News: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/mechanical-engineers-develop-intelligent-car-co-pilot-0713.htmlAnd on the Group's website: http://web.mit.edu/mobility/
Putting it together: the modular car
Putting it together: the modular car
With the 10^5 Competition, MIT's Vehicle Design Summit (VDS) will leverage distributed innovation to build a better car.
An "intelligent co-pilot" for cars
MIT researchers develop an "intelligent co-pilot" for cars
A new semiautonomous driver system can take the wheel to keep drivers safe.
McAfee: Autonomous Cars - Near-Term Vision
McAfee: Autonomous Cars - Near-Term Vision
Andrew McAfeePrincipal Research Scientist, Center for Digital BusinessMIT Sloan School of Management
J. D. Power and Associates
J. D. Power and Associates
"Incentive Planning System: A DSS for Planning Pricing and Promotions in the Automobile Industry" by Professor Jorge Silva-Risso from the University of California, Riverside, and J.D. Power's Irina Ionova This work reports on a promotion analysis tool that enabled automobile manufacturers to ...
Energy 101: Vehicle Propulsion
Energy 101: Vehicle Propulsion
Kevin Cedrone addresses a wide variety of vehicle propulsion technologies in this short interview. From internal combustion engines and hybrids to electric vehicles and biofuels, Kevin discusses the importance of each technology based on criteria such as efficiency, emissions, drivability, ...
Energy 101: Biofuels
Energy 101: Biofuels
In this short video, Dr. Mark Mba Wright gives a broad overview of biofuels: from what they are to their technological requirements and challenges.
Electric Go-Kart: Test Drive #2
Electric Go-Kart: Test Drive #2
With a new set of custom motor controllers, we were able to test some of the more interesting features of the Cap Kart. More info:http://web.mit.edu/first/kart In addition to its batteries, the kart has a 110F ultracapacitor, which ultimately will be charged by a simple regenerative braking ...
Effect of roughness during off-road driving
Effect of roughness during off-road driving
This video shows a simulation of a vehicle driving on two types of off-road surfaces. One vehicle is on a flat, sloped surface, and the other vehicle is on a rough, sloped surface. It can be seen that the roughness causes one vehicle to rollover. Read more at the ...
Driving Successfully: Joe Coughlin
Driving Successfully: Joe Coughlin
AgeLab and New England University Transportation Center Director Joe Coughlin speaks on driving successfully as we age.
Driving Successfully: Anne Fabiny, MD
Driving Successfully: Anne Fabiny, MD
Anne Fabiny, MD, Chief of Geriatrics, Cambridge Health Alliance, explores the medical aspects of aging that might impact one's ability to operate a motor vehicle safely