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| Students and Educators | Hundreds of Other Specialists |
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"For design, simulation, and control of mechanical systems,
Autolev is the one program that belongs in every engineer's toolbox.
I found it invaluable for generating equations of motion of complex
multi-body systems.
I incorporate the Autolev generated C files into Matlab simulink
simulations to do stability analysis, dynamic simulations,
and control system design.
No other program is as versatile."
Dr. Salma Saeed Staff Engineer Hughes Space Communications |
"I have been using Autolev for many years in dynamics teaching and research.
I don't know of any better package for dynamics for the intelligent user in
a research environment. It's great!"
Peter Hagedorn Professor of Appled Mechanics Darmstadt University of Technology |
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"Autolev is an outstanding program for modeling and simulating the motion
of rigid bodies. It has saved me countless hours in modeling and simulating
the dynamic behavior of bodies in complex virtual environments."
Dr. Eric Abbott R&D Engineer Virtual Technologies, Inc. |
"Autolev is a most efficient tool for the comprehensive study of dynamic systems.
With it, analytical and numerical work that used to take several months to
complete can now be done in a matter of days or even hours."
Professor Fidelis Eke Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering University of California, Davis |
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"As a novice Autolev user, Autolev has helped me derive
equations of motion of complex spacecraft, e.g., the SBIRS spacecraft
and the SIM hexapod.
Recently, I hand-derived equations of motion for a flexible body losing
mass and used Autolev's remarkable C/Fortran coding capabilities to produce
a very fast error-free Fortran code."
Dr. Arun Banerjee Consulting Scientist Lockheed Martin Advanced Technical Center |
"We have used Autolev in modeling of complex, multi-body systems.
This tool is quite powerful, enabling us to quickly
obtain equations of motion and write computer codes.
We are now using it to couple multi-rigid-body systems to flexible bodies that
are modeled using geometrically-exact mixed finite elements."
Professor Dewey H. Hodges School of Aerospace Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology |
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"Autolev provides a common language for my engineers.
With Autolev, I know that I can share models and their results
between engineers and projects without the risk of miscommunication.
Management of my own work is similarly enhanced using Autolev since
I can return to a model that I haven't touched for months and have
an understandable record of my past work.
I find it invaluable in a fast paced work environment where good documentation is rare."
Dr. Jeff Stoen Dynamics and Controls Lead Engineer Space Systems/Loral |
"Autolev is the fastest and easiest way I know to develop equations of motion and
simulation code which correctly represents EXACTLY the system I wish to investigate.
It provides a totally unconstrained environment in which the analyst/designer
may accurately simulate the behavior of effectively ANY multibody system.
As such, Autolev is indispensable to my efforts in research, teaching, and consulting."
Assistant Professor Kurt S. Anderson Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Resselaer Polytechnic Institute |
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"Throughout my career as an analyst and software developer,
Autolev has been used for everything from writing space
vehicle simulation programs to performing simple
vector/dyadic operations and solving equations.
At LSTC it is employed in the implementation and validation
of new rigid body formulations in the commercial finite element
program LS-DYNA.
The performance of our Lagrange multiplier and mixed method
joints as well as flexible rigid body mechanics has been greatly
enhanced with the aid of this indispensable tool.
Todd P. Slavik Senior Scientist Livermore Software Technology Corporation |
"I have found Autolev to be an indispensable teaching tool for my
graduate-level dynamics course at the University of Florida.
It allows me to focus on teaching the thought processes involved in solving
dynamics problems rather than on manual symbol manipulation.
For research, Autolev allows me to derive error-free equations of motion for complex
systems quickly and easily.
It also gives me full control over the generation of the equations,
which is essential for analyses requiring access to the symbolic form of the equations."
Assistant Professor B.J. Fregly Aerospace Engineering, Mechanics, and Engineering Science University of Florida |
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"Autolev's clear and concise methodology for deriving equations
of motion has made it an indispensable research and teaching
tool. As a ten year Autolev veteran, the feature I appreciate
most is that the end product is actual equations, not just a
piece of code where I can only see or access the inputs and
outputs. This allows me to easily determine the various force
components (i.e, gravity, muscle force, friction, etc.) by
visual inspection. Because of its versatility, Autolev is the
only tool I need for analyzing the dynamics of human motion.
Using Autolev within my graduate class has allowed me to
quickly move into advanced theory without the students getting
bogged down with intensive tedious mathematics. In my sophomore
level class Autolev provides an excellent resource for examples
and simulations."
Dr. Frances T. Sheehan Assistant Professor, Catholic University of America. Adjunct Clinical Scientist, National Institute of Health. |
"Of the 5 engineering software packages I've been asked to use for my classes,
Autolev is the only one I've continued to use after the final exam.
Its interface is clear and intuitive, and the online help is surprisingly useful.
The fact that Autolev writes C programs to solve your problems makes it fast,
but it also makes your solutions reusable in different environments.
The simplicity and speed afforded by Autolev makes it preferable to those
of us who need answers more than pretty pictures.
Currently, in my work for the Stanford Solar Car Project,
I'm using Autolev to write a C program that will be embedded on a tiny on-board
computer and will determine the optimum speed of
the car given a set of race conditions, a race course, and weather prediction."
Brandon Stafford Stanford Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Project Leader, Stanford Solar Car Project |