Not exact matches
Jason Crusan, director
of advanced exploration
systems at NASA, says the space agency already uses virtual reality technology in astronaut training and spacecraft
simulations, so it was logical to extend that successful model to inspire and educate the next generation
of space explorers and scientists.
One
of Lockheed's four business areas, RMS is a $ 16 billion business that includes helicopters, naval
systems, platform integration, logistics,
simulation, and training.
Systems analysis, elaborate
simulation techniques, automated access to central data banks, information theory, game Theory, and the use
of socio - economic models, often mathematically stated, all aided and abetted by the computer, make possible a massive application
of data not hitherto possible.
These computer
simulations of an abstract model (closely related to the features which characterize self - organizing chemical and biological
systems) clearly show that the origin
of intrinsic capacity for self - definition can be understood in detail, at least in relatively simple cases.
The
simulation of the behaviour
of military, industrial and urban
systems is carried out in the new fields
of «operations research» and «
systems analysis».
It speaks
of operations research,
systems analysis, technological forecasting, information theory, game theory,
simulation techniques, decision theory, Delphi method, cross-impact matrix analysis, statistical time - series, stochastic models, linear programming, input - output economics, computer based command and control
systems, and so on.
These «
simulation models» are prominent in the new fields
of «operations research» and «
systems analysis».
The Robot Studio Picking PowerPac is a new feature for «pick
simulation» (a screen display is seen in the above left portion
of the image for a delta - style robot setup) to virtually predict and optimize the functionality
of robotic
systems.
Advances in robotics from Pack Expo include ABB's «extremely accurate»
simulation software (left) and Blueprint Automation's infeed sortation
system (right) designed to be positioned upstream
of robots.
To round off our coverage we now predict these results in a detailed way, based on the most recent opinion polls and a careful
simulation of the List PR
system in every region.
«I don't think they're claiming that this is going to give them an efficient
simulation of quantum
systems on a classical computer,» he says.
Beyond HPC
system - software development, additional applications for the Pi Cluster Modules include better
simulation of large - scale sensor networks, with flexible I / O to connect the actual sensor devices; HPC network topology research, to improve production performance; and the internet
of things.
A dynamic
simulation of that process, carried out by A'Hearn's colleague Kevin Walsh
of Southwest Research Institute, sheds light on many long - standing puzzles about the solar
system: not only where the Oort Cloud comets come from, but also why Mars is so small and airless com - pared with Earth.
Computer
simulations have become a useful part
of mathematical modelling
of many natural
systems in physics, chemistry and biology, human
systems in economics, psychology, and social science and in the process
of engineering new technology, to gain insight into the operation
of those
systems.
To find out, Jian Ge
of the University
of Florida in Gainesville and colleagues built a computer
simulation of the
system, which showed that moon - sized protoplanets — the precursors to larger worlds — could indeed form after about a million years.
Still an active researcher focused on computer
simulations of solar
system dynamics, Grazier told Discover Associate Editor Gemma Tarlach that Hollywood is less a shark tank than a sandbox full
of smart kids.
«Not only is our physics - based
simulation and animation
system as good as other data - based modeling
systems, it led to the new scientific insight that the limited motion
of the dynein hinge focuses the energy released by ATP hydrolysis, which causes dynein's shape change and drives microtubule sliding and axoneme motion,» says Ingber.
Which suggests the chief application
of Batygin's formalism may not be to model a wide range
of systems but rather to make models for a narrow range
of systems far less computationally expensive than N - body
simulations.
The researchers are now working with other collaborators to benchmark their experimental results against numerical
simulations of the plating process in simple model
systems.
One particularly useful way to tap their knowledge would be to commission economics - based models
of the higher education
system with the goal
of letting policy - makers examine the effects
of funding and policy changes via
simulation.
The idealized UW computer
simulation could help volcanologists better understand how energy builds up inside a
system like Mauna Loa, which is a focus
of the UW group's research, to predict when it will erupt.
Rodgers adds: «It's essential to demonstrate that high - performance computing
simulations can generate realistic results and our team will work with engineers to evaluate the computed motions, so they can be used to understand the resulting distribution
of risk to infrastructure and ultimately to design safer energy
systems, buildlings and other infrastructure.»
The researchers are now exploring whether their theoretical findings can be applied in practice to improve numerical
simulations of many - body
systems.
That's the conclusion from a computer
simulation of the solar
system's evolution, which suggests the fifth giant was hurled into interstellar space some 4 billion years ago, after a violent encounter with Jupiter.
In addition, they applied the method to thermal transport in nanostructured silicon, a
system of current interest with high potential impact on thermoelectric technology, using
simulations of unprecedented size.
The
simulations suggest that over decades, these warming events dramatically perturb the ocean surface, affecting the flow
of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a
system of currents that acts like a conveyor belt moving water around the planet.
Others, such as a new microsatellite
system aiming to improve measurements
of hurricane intensity and a highly anticipated new computer
simulation that forecasts hurricane paths and intensities, are still in the calibration phase.
Jason Barnes
of the University
of Idaho in Moscow, who co-authored the latest study, is now leading
simulations to look at how planet tilts behave in a wider variety
of circumstances, including planets arranged in different ways to our solar
system.
In their
simulations using in part computer
systems at the National Astronomical Observatory
of Japan, Hyodo and Ohtsuki revealed that the F ring and its shepherd satellites formed as these small satellites with a dense core collided and partially disintegrated.
The first
simulations of input - output processes will probably be small - scale too, but Gu hopes to ultimately see quantum technologies simulating how complex
systems will react and evolve in real life situations.
Bottke's group have shown in a
simulation that a small number
of large rocks came to dominate the solar
system soon after the planets were completely formed (Science, vol 330, p 1527).
But a
simulation system that gives computer - controlled agents a sense
of social propriety could change that, leading to more realistic interactions between humans and characters in games.
The next hurdle becomes how to get these different
simulations to talk to one another, says Amy Marshall - Colón, a plant
systems biologist at Illinois who leads a lab group independent
of Long's and Zhu's.
Using a pair
of governing equations that assume swarmalators are free to move about, along with numerical
simulations, the group found that a swarmalator
system settles into one
of five states:
Over the past decade, the discovery
of planets around other stars and the development
of intricate computer
simulations have suggested that our solar
system is something
of an oddball.
Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University
of California, San Diego, have developed software that greatly expands the types
of multi-scale QM / MM (mixed quantum and molecular mechanical)
simulations of complex chemical
systems that scientists can use to design new drugs, better chemicals, or improved enzymes for biofuels production.
The study used
simulations from the Community Earth
System Model (CESM) run at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and examined warming scenarios ranging from 1.5 degrees Celsius all the way to 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end
of the century.
Previously, astronomers» best constraints on Jupiter's age came from
simulations of how solar
systems form in general.
New
simulations suggest that dense swarms
of boulders collapsed under their own gravity to make the building blocks
of our solar
system.
But the researchers say that by expanding the device and the number
of interactions, they can increase their ability to simulate more complex
systems — growing from the
simulation of a single molecule to that
of an entire material.
The
system relies mostly on the autonomy
of the avatars, enabling Torrens to create realistic computerized
simulations for almost any situation or length
of time.
Before building the Megatron ®, the scientists carried out
simulations to answer questions such as: What is the best way to separate the gas
systems of the two vacuum chambers containing the different targets?
To better understand exactly how lignin persists, researchers at the US Department
of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) created one
of the largest biomolecular
simulations to date — a 23.7 - million atom
system representing pretreated biomass (cellulose and lignin) in the presence
of enzymes.
«The challenge
of brain
simulation is that the nerve cells enter into a temporary relationship with other neurons depending on the task at hand,» says Prof. Dr. Markus Diesmann, director
of Juelich's institute Computational and
Systems Neuroscience (INM - 6).
Existing Earth
System Model
simulations indicate that the ability
of tropical land ecosystems to store carbon will decline over the 21st century.
This bombardment
of asteroids a few million years after the start
of the solar
system could have easily delivered enough ice — locked inside the rocks, safe from the sun's heat — to account for Earth's oceans, computer
simulations indicate.
Participants in the SPOTSIM — Spot - forming convection
simulations research project include Petri Käpylä (Aalto University and the Leibniz - Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)-RRB-, Maarit Käpylä (Aalto University and the Max - Planck - Institute for Solar
System Research), Nishant Singh and Jörn Warnecke (Max - Planck - Institute for Solar
System Research) as well as Axel Brandenburg (NORDITA and the University
of Colorado Boulder).
J. T. Wang, an engineer at GM and a lead technical adviser to the GHBMC, speculates that the virtual - body model may eventually run fast enough to create real - time
simulations that enable vehicles with such
systems to give a more specific picture
of the crash scene.
One
of the key goals is to study how the different seismic safety
systems interact with each other during realistic earthquake
simulations.
But
simulations of planet formation suggest that it is unlikely, so chances are that the final planet count for our solar
system will be eight.