J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 050301. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4054104
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It is with great pleasure that we bring to the readership of the ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics (JCND) a special issue dedicated to select papers from the 17th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control (MSNDC), held during the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering (IDETC-CIE) Conferences (Online, Virtual) on Aug. 17–20, 2021.
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MSNDC is a premier meeting event for professional networking and research exchange across the multibody systems and nonlinear dynamics technical community and provides an international venue where our colleagues present an early glimpse into their highest-quality research. To adapt to the COVID-19 global situation, the 17th MSNDC conference was held virtually so that scholars, experts, and students around the world could still disseminate their latest research during the pandemic.

Enabling Artificial Intelligence Studies in Off-Road Mobility Through Physics-Based Simulation of Multiagent Scenarios 
Aaron Young, Jay Taves, Asher Elmquist, Simone Benatti, Alessandro Tasora, Radu Serban, Dan Negrut
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 051001. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053321

An Alternative Formulation for Modeling Self-Excited Vibrations of Drillstring With Polycrystalline Diamond Compact Bits 
Kaixiao Tian, Emmanuel Detournay, He Zhang
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 051002. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053407

Singularity-Free Lie Group Integration and Geometrically Consistent Evaluation of Multibody System Models Described in Terms of Standard Absolute Coordinates 
Andreas Müller
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 051003. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053368

Model-Based Design and Optimization of Passive Shoulder Exoskeletons 
Ali Nasr, Spencer Ferguson, John McPhee
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 051004. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053405

A Study of a Pendulum-Like Vibration Isolator With Quasi-Zero-Stiffness 
Yishen Tian, Dengqing Cao, Yan Wang, Jie Tang, Bolong Jiang
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 051005. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053406

A Hybrid Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian Formulation for the Investigation of the Stability of Pipes Conveying Fluid and Axially Moving Beams 
Michael Pieber, Konstantina Ntarladima, Robert Winkler, Johannes Gerstmayr
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 051006. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053505

Boosting the Model Discovery of Hybrid Dynamical Systems in an Informed Sparse Regression Approach 
Nico Novelli, Stefano Lenci, Pierpaolo Belardinelli
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 051007. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053324

Modeling and Parameter Identification for a Flexible Rotor With Impacts 
Stefan Holzinger, Manuel Schieferle, Christoph Gutmann, Manfred Hofer, Johannes Gerstmayr
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 051008. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053560

Reduced Order Modeling of Deformable Tire-Soil Interaction With Proper Orthogonal Decomposition 
Christopher C. Sullivan, Hiroki Yamashita, Hiroyuki Sugiyama
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 051009. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053592

A Reduced and Linearized High Fidelity Waveboard Multibody Model for Stability Analysis 
A. G. Agúndez, D. García-Vallejo, E. Freire, A. Mikkola
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 051010. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053507

Numerical and Experimental Investigations on Cross-Sensitivity Characteristics of Instrumented Wheelset Associated With Longitudinal Force and Lateral Contact Position 
Takatoshi Hondo, Takayuki Tanaka, Shoya Kuniyuki, Mitsugi Suzuki
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 051011. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053506

A Polynomial-Chaos-Based Multifidelity Approach to the Efficient Uncertainty Quantification of Online Simulations of Automotive Propulsion Systems 
Hang Yang, Alex Gorodetsky, Yuji Fujii, K. W. Wang
J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. May 2022, 17(5): 051012. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053559

ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics
ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics

Robots are complex, controlled, dynamical systems that interact with their environments. Novel robot concepts were developed in recent years, such as cable-driven platforms, agile parallel manipulators, lightweight robots, and inherently compliant manipulators, with applications ranging from medical devices, cobots and exoskeletons to machine tools, autonomous platforms for inspection and maintenance, and space robots. Future robots need to be responsive; they must (inter)act safely, minimize the use of resources (energy, material, process-, development-, and commissioning-time), and adapt to variations in demands and environmental conditions. The key to a reliable design of such robotic systems is holistic design approaches embracing kinematic synthesis, dynamic analysis, control, sensory perception, and adaptability.

The mechanical embodiment, as the starting point of any robot design, must be designed together with control, actuation, and sensory components. Novel mechanical design principles combining high-fidelity kinematic and dynamic models with data-driven methods are applied along with model-free machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) methods. The foundation is a synergetic combination of research in mechanism theory and dynamical systems and control.

This Joint Special Issue (published over two volumes, one in each sponsoring journal) aims to bridge these research fields and bring together the latest research on robot kinematics and dynamics as well as intelligent control and data-driven methods for perception, planning, model identification and control.

Topic Areas
• Holistic approaches to design, analysis, and control of mechanisms and robots
• Physical human-robot interaction (pHRI)
• Industrial robots, Cable-driven robots and platforms
• Legged and humanoid robots
• Robots equipped with series-elastic actuators (SEA)
• Intrinsic and extrinsic sensors for compliant robots
• Soft and continuum robots
• Embodied and mechanical intelligence
• Model-based and robust control
• Physics-based AI, data-driven and combined approaches to robot dynamics and control

Publication Target Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: Extended to June 13, 2022
Initial Review Completed: Extended to November 15, 2022
Decisions Due: Extended to February 15, 2023
Joint Special Issue Publication Date: Extended to June 2023

Submission Instructions
Papers should be submitted electronically to the journals at journaltool.asme.org. If you already have an account, log in as author and select Submit Paper at the bottom of the page. If you do not have an account, select Submissions and follow the steps. In either case, at the Paper Submittal page, select the ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics or the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics and then select the Joint Special Issue Design and Control of Responsive Robots. Please note that in order to balance the Joint Special Issue between journals, Editors-in-Chief may recommend that a paper be transferred from one journal to the other. Final decisions about any transfer will be made in consultation with the Corresponding Author.

Papers received after the deadline or papers not selected for inclusion in the Joint Special Issue may be accepted for publication in a regular issue.

Guest Editors
Andreas Müller, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, a.mueller@jku.at
Jozsef Kovecses, McGill University, Canada, jozsef.kovecses@mcgill.ca
Charles Kim, Bucknell University, USA, charles.kim@bucknell.edu
Chandramouli Padmanabhan, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, mouli@iitm.ac.in
Gabor Orosz, University of Michigan, USA, orosz@umich.edu

Jan Awrejcewicz
Department of Automation, Biomechanics and Mechatronics, Lodz University of Technology,
Lodz 92-924,  Poland

José M. Balthazar
Department of Electronics Federal, University of Technology—Parana (UTFPR), 
Ponta Grossa-PR 90-924, Brazil

Paweł Olejnik
Department of Automation, Biomechanics and Mechatronics, Lodz University of Technology, 
Lodz 90-924, Poland

J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. Dec 2020, 15(12): 120301

This special issue is dedicated to selected papers from the 2019 Dynamical Systems—Theory and Applications (DSTA) conference held in Lodz, Poland, from December 2 to 5. The DSTA conferences have over a 25-year long history, and they have been organized under the patronage of the Committee of Mechanics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
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In recent times, a considerable volume of research efforts have been undertaken in the fields of identification and mathematical description of nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear vibrations associated with energy harvesting systems, piezo-electric material or smart material beams, nanoplates, and cracks at different length scales. With regard to them, algebraic and differential mathematical models, as well as efficient computational techniques for dynamical analysis of the physical effects such as influence of magnetic fields, coupled oscillations in the vicinity of resonances, nonideal sources of excitation, transient bursting states, generation of flexural waves, and hysteretic damping are covered through the seven carefully selected papers included in this special Issue. The different contributions reflect the interest in the study of mechanical, electrical, magnetic, and other properties of nanostructures, the use of vibration energy in many natural and artificial systems, and coupled oscillators, such as FitzHugh–Nagumo subjected to external noise.  Read more...