Links of the week #36

AI

• AI in the Sciences and Engineering (2024), course by ETH Zürich with all the presentation slides, tutorials, and a playlist fully available on Youtube, by Ben Moseley . Here's a fraction of the available lectures :

• Physics-Informed Neural Networks with MATLAB - Conor Daly (Aug. 2024).

• A Simulation Benchmark for Autonomous Racing with Large-Scale Human Data (July 2024), where Reinforcement Learning is used to have fun with Assetto Corsa

Vehicle dynamics

• Trajectory Planning Using Tire Thermodynamics for Automated Drifting , by the Stanford team who collaborated with the Toyota Research Institute for their demo of autonomous tandem drift. PINNs again here !

How do you model a tire as it reaches over 212 degrees F (or 100 degrees C) and literally turns into white smoke as it drives? Takumi solves this problem with a physics-informed neural network that leverages the benefits of data-driven methods while blending in physics knowledge.

CAD

• New CAD Systems For 2024 (Aug. 2024), by Ralph Grabowski , about not well-known native cloud solutions, targetting mostly small and medium-sized enterprises.

Robotics

• Scenario Execution for Robotics (Aug. 2024) : "Scenario execution is a backend- and middleware-agnostic library written in Python based on the generic scenario description language OpenSCENARIO 2 and pytrees . It reads a scenario definition from a file and then executes it, reusing available checks and actions"
• RobotCAD is a plugin for FreeCAD that allows you to automatically generate ROS and Gazebo assets from your CAD designs (via Open Robotics )

• v3 of Pyrobosim is out , via and by Sebastian Castro