GSoC-2023 Initial Contact
Greetings everyone,
I am Gautam Shetty and am currently pursuing my bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering at IIT Roorkee. I am interested in contributing to the mbdyn community as a part of GSOC 2023.
I have completed step 1 of the entry test. I created a model for a crank-slider mechanism by following the steps on this site. I am currently working on steps 2 and 3. For the next step, I was thinking to modify the code such that we can create a phase portrait for any system by running the program multiple times for different inputs. However, I am having difficulty understanding where to start; any feedback regarding this would be appreciated.
Regarding the project selection, I was thinking to go for the ground vehicle model development project or the tire model one. I chose these projects because of my experience in developing vehicle dynamics models. I have created an MF5.2 tire model and a 14DOF full-vehicle model on MATLAB. I am the vehicle dynamics head of our institute's formula student team so I have also worked with other multibody software like ADAMS for suspension simulations.
Apart from these projects, I can also work on the ones related to implementing or optimizing various numerical methods.
I look forward to working with the mbdyn community.
Cheers, Gautam.