Project Chrono

Project Chrono is a simulation infrastructures that is focused on physics-based modeling in wheeled vehicle dynamics, robotics, mechatronic engineering, granular flows or seismic engineering. Written in C++, the library can be easily embedded in most modern software development projects that focus on compliant mechanisms, automobiles, deformable terrains or fluid solid interaction phenomena.

When employed for vehicles and wheeled mechanisms, the library provides you with a simple way to model the objects via templates. According to the developers, you have dozens of soil and tire models to choose from and numerous suspensions models to test at the same time. To make the simulation even more realistic, you can even add elements such as torque converters, brakes, clutches or reducers.

In the eventuality you are interested in testing the effects of collisions, then you can customize the impact shapes with either primitives or meshes. The advanced collision detection algorithms along with the fact that you can define the surface properties, could help you compute the frictional contact forces and could be used to simulate crash tests for various vehicles and machinery.

The library is scalable and hence, suitable for small projects as well as large scale simulations that permit you to explore large scenarios involving granular flows, vehicle-soil information, fluid-solid interaction, etc.