Industrial Visualization Lab Facilities
The Industrial Visualization Lab provides researchers addresses the need for workplaces to develop virtual engineering and plant training capability. visual-based trainingcritical need serves as a teaching facility to introduce students to physical ergonomics and workplace design using equipment that can also be utilized for research.
The major pieces of equipment include:
- 300WS Driving Simulator (STSIM)
- Siemens Jack
- Siemens Process Simulate
- Kinect motion capture (Microsoft)
- Inertial motion capture (Synertial)
- Omni-directional (360) treadmill (Cyberith)
- Age simulation suit GERT (Wolfgang Moll)
- Virtual reality head-mounted display (HTC Vive)
- Immersive 360 environment (ordered)
- Spherical VR 8K Camera (ordered)
Types of research include:
- Distracted driving studies using eye-tracking
- Human performance of Goods-to-Man order picking integrating Synertial Motion Capture Suit with Siemens Jack
- Skeleton capture to customize anthropometric models in Siemens Jack
- Walkthrough virtual plant layouts
