RT-MBDyn

Hi.

Since you've always been very friendly to our
work, which is strongly related to yours, let
me announce you that RT-MBDyn, i.e. RTAI-enabled
MBDyn for real-time multibody dynamics simulation,
has been released in beta:

http://www.aero.polimi.it/~mbdyn/

Although some major improvements are coming
very soon, we decided to make this release
to allow other users to play with the real-time
"distributed" simulation stuff.

As a beta version, there might be few problems
in configuring and installing it; the real-time
simulation is totally undocumented yet; we
plan to publish something as soon as possible,
so, if you're interested, keep an eye on the
web site.

You may see its application to some robotics
and rotorcraft related simulations at

http://www.aero.polimi.it/~mbdyn/mbdyn-rt/

A paper describing its potential in large
model simulation is available at

http://mbdyn.aero.polimi.it/~masarati/Publications/rtai.pdf

A lot of work is in progress to provide a
faster linear solver and to fully parallelize
the most computationally intensive phases, i.e
the matrix assembly and factorization.

Sincerely, Pierangelo Masarati.

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Pierangelo Masarati                      tel: +39 02 2399 8309
mail: pierangelo.masarati at polimi.it   fax: +39 02 2399 8334
http://www.aero.polimi.it/~masarati/
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale, Politecnico di Milano
via La Masa 34, 20156 Milano, Italy