Theory and Practice of Off-Road Locomotion Research Group

RESEARCH GROUP LEADER: Lajos Laib CSc., professor

CONTACT: Laib.Lajos@gek.szie.hu

RESEARCH GROUP MEMBERS:
Professor: 2
Associate professor: 1
Assistant professor: 2
Assistant: 3
PhD student: 3

RESEARCH AREAS:
Mechanical engineering, Off-Road-Vehicles, Surface material, Surface properties, Vehicles’ dynamics

MEMBERSHIPS:
Scientific Society for Mechanical Engineering
The International Society for Terrain-Vehicle Systems

LONG-TERM COLLABORATIONS:
Hungarian Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Hungary
Centre for Agricultural Research, Institute for Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry of HAS, Hungary
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Transportation Engineering, Hungary

SERVICES:
research and development of the off-road vehicles
research and development of the military vehicles
transportation safety

GRANTS:

NKTH Jedlik Development of multi-disciplinary system for transportation safety: Development of professional standards for vehicle safety technology, accident investigation, verification by crash test (2009)
OTKA Determination of the soil mechanics parameters systems for off-road vehicles (2004)

CONTRACTS:
Automotive technology company, Automotive experts office