Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
IALR Office 122i
(434) 766-6708
(434) 791-3279 FAX
For more information please visit, Vehicle Terrain Performance Laboratory.
| Education | Research | Experience |
Education
| Ph.D. | University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | 1996 |
| M.S. | University of Michigan | Dearborn, MI | 1992 |
| B.S. | Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburg, PA | 1990 |
Research
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Terramechanics of Off-Road Vehicles and Deformable Terrain
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Nonlinear Tire Modeling that Captures Enveloping Characteristics of a Tire
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High-Speed, High-Fidelity, In-Vehicle, Terrain Scanning Systems
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Terrain Characterization as Realizations of a Stochastic Process
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Multi-Body Dynamic Simulations of Vehicles Traversing Terrain
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Measurement of Test Tracks and Public Roads
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Characterization of Road Roughness
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Prediction of Vehicle Performance
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Development of Durability Test Schedules
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Vehicle Models for Ride Quality Analyses
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Psychometric Studies of Driver’s Perception of Performance
For more information, please go to the Center for Vehicle Systems and Safety web page.
Teaching Activities
ME 5984 Stochastic Processes
Basic knowledge of probability and statistics is strengthened and used to develop the foundations of stochastics. The concepts of stochastic processes are then developed and students are introduced to topics such as fields, covariance, stationarity, ergodicity, spectral density, martingales, and Markov processes. (Pre: undergraduate statistics and probability)
Experience
| Associate Professor | Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA |
2005 - Present |
Honors
No honors listed.
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Publications
Conference Papers
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Kern, J. V., and Ferris, J. B., 2006, "Preliminary Results for Model Identification in Characterizing 2-D Topographic Road Profiles," Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering, Defense and Security Symposium, SPIE, Orlando, FL.