Pre-Conference Workshop
ISTVS 2025 | October 6-9, 2025 | Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
Last updated
ISTVS 2025 | October 6-9, 2025 | Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
Last updated
This hands-on workshop introduces AGX Dynamics, a powerful multibody dynamics simulation toolkit for virtual prototyping and designing heavy machines and earthmoving equipment.
AGX Dynamics enables the modeling and simulation of complex mechanical systems in motion, with a strong focus on vehicle dynamics and terrain interaction. It supports a range of applications, from engineering analysis to interactive 3D training and AI/ML-based virtual testing environments.
Date: Monday, October 6
Time: 0800 - 1000
How to simulate terrain vehicles and earthmoving equipment, including wheels, tracks, and tools interacting with deformable terrain.
How to model different soil types and measure excavated forces, masses and volume using AGX Dynamics.
Hands-on experience through demos and exercises.
This workshop is ideal for engineers, researchers, and AI developers looking to leverage real-time physics simulation for autonomous off-highway and heavy equipment applications.
Participants should bring their own laptops. Software and demo licenses will be provided ahead of the workshop. Please make sure to install AGX Dynamics before coming to the workshop if you want to follow along on your own laptop. All simulations will be run via Python.
For a preview of AGX Dynamics in action, check out these videos: 🔗 Terrain-Vehicle Interaction 🔗 Earthmoving Simulation
Tomas Berglund, MSc Engineering Physics, is a distinguished R&D engineer at Algoryx, renowned for his pivotal role in developing AGX Terrain, a cutting-edge simulation tool for real-time modeling of soil and heavy equipment interactions. AGXTerrain tech report.pdf
With a strong background in physics and engineering, Tomas has significantly advanced computational modeling techniques. His work includes presenting "Impact force analysis with the nonsmooth discrete element method" at the ECCOMAS Particles 2017 conference, showcasing his expertise in granular dynamics, Algoryx at ECCOMAS 2017
Tomas's contributions have been instrumental in enhancing the realism and precision of terrain-vehicle interaction simulations, benefiting industries such as construction, mining, and robotics. His dedication to advancing simulation technologies continues to drive innovation in the field.
Founded in 2007 as a spin-off from Umeå University, Algoryx is a global leader in real-time physics simulation for complex machinery, vehicles, and robotics. Our physics-informed digital twins are essential for innovation in off-highway autonomy, vehicle-terrain interaction, and AI-driven control systems. These simulations support the entire development cycle—from conceptual design and systems engineering to validation, verification, and machine learning-based autonomy.
Algoryx’s technology is widely used in construction, mining, forestry, agriculture, and defense, where vehicles must navigate extreme terrains with high precision. By enabling realistic, high-fidelity simulation of soft soil, granular materials, and complex vehicle dynamics, we help industry leaders reduce development time, optimize designs, and train AI-driven control systems in virtual environments before real-world deployment.
Our solutions also extend beyond Earth: the space industry leverages Algoryx’s technology for developing and testing robotic systems and autonomous vehicles for planetary exploration, where Earth-based trials are impractical or impossible.
AGX Dynamics is an industry-grade multiphysics simulation engine designed for demanding real-time applications. It provides:
Advanced terrain-vehicle interaction modeling, using AGX Terrain, for high-fidelity simulations of soil deformation, earth-moving applications and tire-soil interactions based on physics-grounded methodologies.
Discrete variational non-smooth time integration, ensuring stable, high-accuracy simulation even for large timesteps—critical for real-time training and AI reinforcement learning.
Physics-based constraint formulations, enabling accurate modeling of contact forces, rolling resistance, elasticity, and plasticity for realistic vehicle mobility simulations.
High-performance solvers optimized for large-scale mechanical systems, leveraging hybrid parallel computing for superior speed and scalability.
Seamless AI and machine learning integration, allowing synthetic data generation for training reinforcement learning and adaptive control algorithms in simulation-first workflows.
A powerful C++ SDK, with bindings for C, C#, Python, and Java, facilitating integration into diverse simulation environments.
Extensive support for real-time and offline simulation, including integration with ROS2, FMI, Unity, Unreal Engine, ANSYS, and MATLAB/Simulink.
Support for the new open modeling language, OpenPLX, for flexible and efficient high-level system modeling.
With AGX Dynamics, engineers and researchers can simulate realistic off-road mobility, optimize vehicle design, and train AI-driven control systems in a physics-informed environment—paving the way for the next generation of autonomous off-highway machinery.
More details, including technical documentation, tutorials, and publications, are available on Algoryx’s website.
Costs: $125.00/ Ticket (Lunch will be provided)
Register Now to secure your seat for this immersive experience in real-time simulation.
Limited to 25 attendees, register early to save your seat!
