Chrono Users
A list of several past and current Chrono users is provided below. Please let us know if you have used Chrono - a growing list of users increases our chances of keeping Chrono going as an open source and free multi-physics simulation framework.
Universities:
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA): Chrono has been use in a variety of applications, see Simulation-Based Engineering Lab web site link
- University of Parma (Italy): Chrono has been used in robotics, controls, waste management, masonry structures, etc. link
- Multibody dynamics support in GPUSPH
- Multibody dynamics support in DualSPHysics
- Georgia Tech University (USA): robotics, bio-inspired robots (Dan Goldman) link
- Technical University of Berlin (Germany): QBlade: aero-elastic wind turbine design and simulation tool development (David Marten) link paper
- Politecnico di Milano (Italy): planet formation, waste management, etc. (Pierangelo Masarati) link
- Politecnico di Milano (Italy): 2018 landing of MASCOT on asteroid Ryugu; MASCOT lander currently onboard the JAXA Hayabusa 2 mission (Pierluigi Di Lizia)
- Politecnico di Milano (Italy): miniaturized mechanisms for watches (Nicolò Robuschi, Francesco Braghin)
- University of Washington (USA): shock wave propagation in granular media (Nicholas Boechler) link
- Aarhus University (Denmark): wheel/terrain interaction, agroecology (Ole Balling) link
- Marquette University (USA): autonomous vehicle simulation (J. Fleischmann)
- Muroran Institute of Technology (Japan): robotics and synchronization control of multiple systems (Assoc. Prof. Hidekazu Kajiwara)
- Kobe University (Japan): fluid simulation as in studying aerodynamics effects on car motion (Nomoto Yotaro, Tsubokura Laboratory)link
- Universidad Austral de Chile: rotating machine dynamics (Luis Medina) link
- University of Iowa: co-simulation of wheeled vehicles on deformable terrain (Hiroyuki Sugiyama)
Industry:
Government labs:
- US Army Ground Vehicle Systems Center (USA)
- U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (USA)
- Argonne National Lab (USA)
- Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL, USA)
- German Bundeswehr’s WTD-41 land mobility simulation, evaluation process link