Links of the week #44

Automotive

• Advanced Brakes Benchmarking for EVs (part 1)

Self-driving cars

• Introducing Waymo's Research on an End-to-End Multimodal Model (Oct. 2024), via Vincent Vanhoucke

While EMMA shows great promise, we recognize several of its challenges. EMMA's current limitations in processing long-term video sequences restricts its ability to reason about real-time driving scenarios — long-term memory would be crucial in enabling EMMA to anticipate and respond in complex evolving situations. Other key challenges to ensure safe driving behavior include EMMA not leveraging LiDAR and radar inputs, which requires the fusion of more sophisticated 3D sensing encoders, the challenge of efficient simulation methods for evaluation, the need for optimized model inference time, and verification of intermediate decision-making steps.?

Robotics

• SLAM Handbook. Part 1 has been released

• Mobile Robotics Scale-up Leveraging ROS, another talk from ROSCon 2024, by Dexory . Slides here

• The State of Open-RMF, one of the talks during ROSCon 2024. Slides are here. Reminder : Open-RMF is a "free, open source, modular software system that enables sharing and interoperability between multiple fleets of robots and physical infrastructure, like doors, elevators and building management systems."

Materials science

• A Database of Stress-Strain Properties Auto-generated from the Scientific Literature using ChemDataExtractor (Nov. 2024). The dataset is available here on figshare (2.24 Gb!)

This study targets the curation of a comprehensive materials database of mechanical properties that typically feature on a stress-strain curve: yield strength, ultimate tensile strength, Young’s modulus, fracture strength and ductility. Through an improved information-extraction pipeline, a database of 720,308 material properties with an overall precision of 82.03% has been presented

Simulation

• Robust Industrial Co-Simulation - part 2 (Nov. 2024) by Edo Drenth , which follows previous articles on the same topic. Don't miss the discussions in the comments below these articles, as well as below Dr. Clément Co?c recent post : Understanding FMI CS and ME.

"If you want to find the secrets of systems simulation, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."

• Introducing JuliaSim: A Cloud Based Modeling Tool (Nov. 2024), webinar presented by Michael Tiller

• Proceedings of Matlab Expo 2024 are online. The screenshot below is from Christopher Lum's talk "Asynchronous Engineering Instruction"

CAD

• FreeCAD 1.0 is out. Watch the release trailer :)