Engineering Research Equipment: Virtual Reality to Support Product Design, Virtual Prototyping and Virtual Disassembly

小行星9622665 该奖项是为了在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的I-CARVE实验室收购和开发虚拟现实工作室。 这个虚拟现实装置由一台带有Reality Engine II图形处理器的Silicon Graphics Onyx计算机组成。 这台电脑附有一个网络手套跟踪手的位置。 这台计算机还连接了一个由Visual Research提供的支持三维可视化的头戴式显示设备。该头戴式设备携带一个6自由度头部 确定头部在空间位置的跟踪器。 硬件由软件支持，该软件由许多虚拟现实设备接口、图形模块和实体建模软件程序组成。 该补助金还支持兼职学生维护虚拟现实工作室。 该设备将用于三个创新工程设计应用领域的研究：（1）产品设计的虚拟现实，（2）虚拟原型，（3）虚拟反制造。 虚拟现实设计的研究解决了一个根本性的新方法，在虚拟现实设置执行概念形状设计。 这集成了人类语音命令控制和人类手控制作为输入机制。 虚拟样机研究涉及开发代表性的框架定义和提取信息的近净形状制造的产品，以确定这些零件在虚拟环境中的原型。利用这项研究，生产和模具的问题，可以解决在虚拟环境中。 虚拟反制造允许创新的方法来评估产品设计的拆卸和回收-所有在虚拟环境中。

9622665 Gadh This award is for the acquisition and development of a Virtual Reality Studio at the I-CARVE Lab at University of Wisconsin-Madison. This Virtual Reality set-up consists of a Silicon Graphics Onyx Computer with a Reality Engine II graphics processor. To this computer attaches a Cyber Glove for tracking the hand position. Also attached to this computer is a head-mount display device by Visual Research that supports three dimensional visualization. The head-mount device carries a 6 degree of freedom head tracker that determines head position in space. The hardware is supported by software that consists of a number of virtual reality device interfaces, graphics modules and solid modeling software programs. The grant also supports a part-time student for maintaining the Virtual Reality Studio. This equipment will be used for research in three innovative engineering design application areas: (1) virtual reality for product design, (2) virtual prototyping, (3) virtual de-manufacturing. The virtual-reality-for-design research addresses a fundamentally new method for performing concept-shape design in a virtual reality set-up. This integrates human voice command control and human hand control as input mechanisms. The virtual prototyping research involves developing representational frameworks for defining and extracting information from near-net shape manufactured products so as to determine the prototypability of such parts in a virtual environment. Using this research, questions of production and tooling can be addressed in the virtual environment. Virtual de-manufacturing allows innovative methods for evaluating product designs for disassembly and recycling--all in the virtual environment.