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DYNO documentation#

What is DYNO?#

DYNO is a toolkit for the performance validation of ground vehicles built on top of Project Chrono.

DYNO allows users to:

  • Perform verification studies for ground (wheeled and tracked) vehicles

  • Perform design exploration and uncertainty quantification studies

  • Validate and test autonomous navigation systems for ground vehicles

  • Generate datasets for high-fidelity multibody dynamics vehicle models

Features#

At this time, DYNO can be used to:

  • 🚗 Test ground vehicle models in straight line acceleration and braking tests, slope climbing and descent tests, double lane change maneuvers, split friction (μ) tests, drawbar-pull tests, autonomous single and multiple obstacle avoidance tests.

  • 🖹 Generate simulation output in JSON or HDF5 format.

  • 📈 Postprocess simulation output directly to Pandas, CSV or PDF (report) format.

  • 🤖 Simulate autonomous vehicles through a native or co-simulated ROS 2 interface.

  • 📊 Optimization and uncertainty quantification (UQ) studies using Sandia National Laboratories Dakota.