IUTAM Symposium on Intelligent Multibody Systems - Dynamics, Control, Simulation

Preface.- Scientific Committee.- Organizing Committee.- Reviewers.- List of Sponsors.- Selected Challenges in Realistic Multibody Modeling of Machines and Vehicles, by Jorge Ambrósio.- Musculo-skeletal modeling and analysis for low-cost active orthosis customization and SCI patient adaptation, by Javier Cuadrado, Urbano Lugris, Francisco Mouzo and Florian Michaud.- Comparison and Analysis of Multibody Dynamics Formalisms for Solving Optimal Control Problem, by Quentin Docquier, Olivier Bruls and Paul Fisette.- A Recursive Driving Constraint Approach for Inverse Dynamics Modeling of Flexible Multibody Systems, by Saeed Ebrahimi and Arman Mardani.- Probabilistic Solutions of the Stretched Beam Systems Formulated by Finite Difference Scheme and Excited by Gaussian White Noise, by Guo-Kang Er, Vai Pan Iu, Kun Wang and Hai-En Du.- O(n) Algorithm for Elastic Link/Joint Robots with End-Effector Contact, by Hubert Gattringer, Andreas Müller, Florian Pucher, and Alexander Reiter.- Developing a3-D, lumped-mass model to present behaviour of large deformation surface based continuum robots, by Hossein Habibi, Rongjie Kang, Ian D. Walker, Isuru S. Godage and David T. Branson.- Research and Development of Methods and Tools for Rapid Digital Simulation and Design of Personalized Orthoses, by Iliya Savov, Georgi Todorov, Yavor Sofronov and Konstantin Kamberov.- Dynamic Modeling of a Sheep Hair Shearing Device using RecurDyn and its Verification, by Sasanka Sekhar Sinha.and Subir Kumar Saha.-  Seismic response of soil-structure systems via BIEM and FEM in absolute coordinates, by Evtim Zahariev and Petia Dineva.- Author Index.