VIRTUAL PROTOTYPING LAB
Activities
The Virtual Lab is located at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, at the new building in via La Masa 1.
The lab is organised in two adjoining spaces, where the following research activities are performed:
- Development of virtual prototypes
- Testing of virtual prototypes on 3D Powerwall with Haptic and Multimodal interaction
- Deformable object simulation on massively parallel computer
- Use of real-time rendering tools on high performance workstation
Equipments
Cyviz - VIZ3D
It is a system for 3D visualization in passive rear projected stereovision, used to visualize virtual prototypes of big size in real scale.
http://www.cyviz.com/
Virtuose 6D35-45
It is a haptic system, which allows a 6 DOF force feedback. It is used for the development of any kind of VR application that is based on the haptic interaction and manipulation of virtual objects: assembly simulation, ergonomic studies, etc.
http://www.haption.com/
A.R.T. Tracking System
It is an infrared optical tracking system. It is commonly used for tracking the point of view and the hands of the user who is interacting with the virtual environment.
http://www.ar-tracking.de/
NVIDIA TESLA HPC
It is a high performance parallel computer (Tesla S1070) coupled with a workstation, able to develop massively parallel algorithms using the CUDA framework on GPGPU hardware. The application fields of this technology are: deformable object simulation, collision detection, numerical integration, acoustic rendering.
The Tesla technology has been kindly donated by NVIDA for research purposes.
http://www.nvidia.com/
Educational resources
It is a workplace equipped with 10 workstations equipped with NVIDIA Quadro boards. Each workstation has several professional software applications for Virtual Prototyping, and among them the RTT Deltagen. Thanks to these high-performance tools, students can learn rapid prototyping techniques for developing and testing products in fully virtual environments.
http://www.rtt.ag
Responsible for the lab: Prof. Monica Bordegoni
e-mail: monica.bordegoni@polimi.it