The
Virtual Soldier Research (VSR) Program
Center for
Computer Aided Design, College of Engineering, The University of Iowa
VSR Accomplishments
October, 2003 – October, 2004
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Santos appears in Forbes Magazine
The Princeton Review and Forbes.com selected The
University of Iowa as one of the top 10 entrepreneurial colleges in
the U.S. Forbes.com chooses a picture of Santos™ to publish |
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Italian Media “Punto Informatico” features VSR
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Italian Media
“InterFree” features VSR Soldati virtuali per US Army: I want you! La US
Army recluta soldati virtuali. |
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Arora appointed Chair of SEI Executive Committee Jasbir Arora, F.
Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Professor of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, and Associate Director of VSR was appointed
2004-05 Chair of the Technical Activities Division's Executive Committee
(TAD-EXCOM) of the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) of the ASCE
(American Society of Civil Engineers). |
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American Society of
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VSR Receives
Outstanding Paper Award from ASME
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CBS News Channel 2 features Santos Virtual Soldier Nears First Birthday 09-24-2004 -- Iowa
City (CBS2 News): The Virtual Soldier Research Program is
funded primarily by the U.S. Army. University of Iowa researchers are
developing a virtual human named Santos. The goal is to develop Santos to the
point where he can test virtual tanks and other military equipment. It could
save the Army the cost of building $1-billion prototypes. Researchers say
keeping prototypes in the virtual world will save time and money. |
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Publications
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VSR Publishes Extensively The VSR team has published to date 18 journal publications (either in press or
published) 22 conference papers (in 17 conferences around
the world). |
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VSR makes Strategic Partnership with VICON Motion Systems |
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Caterpillar partners with VSR
The Caterpillar Technical Research Center
chooses to work with VSR on large projects for the next 3 years. |
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Swan Named
Wheeler Faculty Fellow Of Engineering Colby C. Swan, Associate Professor of
Civil and Environmental Engineering and researcher in the Center for Computer
Aided Design in The University of Iowa College of Engineering, has been
appointed Robert and Virginia Wheeler Faculty Fellow of Engineering. Swan has research expertise in composite materials,
computational solid mechanics and structural topology optimization. |
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VSR Announces
most advanced VR System in the world
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Cedar Rapids
Gazette Article UI "Virtual Soldier" Research
Program Gaining Attention, By Dave DeWitte,
Thursday, July 15, 2004: IOWA CITY -- A University of Iowa program designed to
reduce the cost of prototyping military equipment through the use of human
modeling and simulation technology continues to gain interest in the virtual
reality field. |
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The Iowa Virtual Soldier at SIGGRAPH 2004 Iowa City, IA July
4, 2004, The Virtual Soldier Research (VSR) Program at The University of
Iowa College of Engineering announced today that their real-time presentation
of human modeling and simulation technologies has been accepted for this
year’s Real Time 3DX: Demo or Die at SIGGRAPH 2004 in Los Angeles,
California. |
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VSR wins bid to host the SAE 2005 DHM Conference June 14-16, 2005, The University of Iowa, Iowa
City, IA - June 18, 2004...The Virtual Soldier Research (VSR) program at the
University of Iowa announced today that the Society of Automotive Engineers
(SAE-International) has chosen the University of Iowa for its Digital Human
Modeling for Design and Engineering (DHM) conference in 2005. |
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VSR Team
makes a splash at DHM 2004 The VSR team attends the
SAE Digital Human Modeling conference, June
15th - 17th, 2004, Oakland, Michigan, and presents 3 technical papers. |
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Iowa City Press-Citizen features VSR June 14, 2004,
Discovering the benefits of virtual reality, UI program
preps 'human' for Army use, By Rob Daniel, The digitized man stared
from the screen, arms stretched out. Small green and red spheres appeared
before him. With a click of a computer mouse, the man reached out to the
spheres, his skin twisting and bending as he moved his arms. |
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Grosland receives the CoE Excellence in teaching Award Dr. Nicole
Grosland, VSR team member, received the College of Engineering Excellence in
Teaching Award. Nicole Grosland, who joined the college in 2001, is an
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, as well as Orthopedic Surgery
in the Carver College of Medicine, and research scientist in the Iowa Spine
Research Center. |
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Abdel-Malek appointed
Editor-in-Chief Dr. Karim Abdel-Malek, Director of VSR and Associate Professor
of Biomedical Engineering was selected by Inderscience Publishing, United
Kingdom, to lead a new journal in the field of human modeling and simulation
(ISSN (Online): 1742-5557
- ISSN (Paper): 1742-5549). |
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KCRG Channel 9 features Santos Virtual Soldier Being Developed in Iowa City Laboratory, Friday, April 23, 2004, 6:15:58 PM. By KCRG-TV9 News Reporter Dave Franzman – TV9 Iowa City
Newsroom. The war in Iraq and Afghanistan has been fought for more than a
year. And the soldiers are using the same weapons, vehicles and equipment
they trained with before the war started. But soon, Iowa technology could
play a role in how those weapons, clothes and equipment are developed. |
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The Des Moines register features VSR
U of I's virtual humans designed to test
products, learning how people will interact with yet-unbuilt equipment could
save millions. By Erin Jordan,
Register Correspondent, 02/29/2004, Iowa City, IA. - It
used to take seven years for a John Deere tractor to go from the idea stage
to production. Researchers and manufacturers now see a day when they will use
virtual humans - that look, walk and talk like real humans, but on a computer
screen - to test yet-unbuilt equipment. This new technology, being developed
at the University of Iowa, could save companies millions of dollars and
months - or years - of research by accurately predicting how humans will
interact with a product. |
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Associated Press features VSR
The Associated Press (AP), November 26,
2003, Researchers creating virtual soldiers: By the Associated Press, IOWA CITY –
Researchers at the University of Iowa are using artificial intelligence
programs to create computer simulations of human soldiers to help test the
performance of future U.S. Army combat systems. The five-year, $17.5 million
project is designed to help make the Army faster, more efficient and lethal
with the integration of more sophisticated weapons systems, university
officials said. The digital soldiers
will help researchers test the impact new machinery and weapons systems could
have on real troops, researchers said. |
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European TCS Tech Central Station features VSR
European Tech
Central Station, Jan 12, 2004, Crash Test Smarties, by Michael Standaert, Gone may be the days synthetic mannequins strapped with sensors
and electrodes are hurled at break-neck speed into walls for the very purpose
of breaking their necks. Researchers at the University of Iowa College of
Engineering are currently developing computer simulated 'virtual humans' to
take their place. In mid-December,
the U of I Center for Computer Aided Design (CCAD) received word that their
project two years in the making would get a significant boost to the tune of
a $2.5 million one-year renewable contract from the U.S. Army Tank Automotive
Command Center (TACOM) to begin developing 'virtual soldiers' to test future
tanks. |
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The Daily
Iowan features VSR Iowa City, December
16, 2003: UI center moves ahead, virtually, By Matthew Moss - The Daily Iowan, In a virtual kitchen,
"Ellen" reaches out to touch a stove. It may soon be a U.S. Army
M1A1 tank. The computerized woman
moves in response to typed commands from Karim Abdel-Malek, the director of
the UI's Digital Humans and Virtual Reality Laboratories… |
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VSR Creates Santos: an intelligent virtual
soldier
A biomechanically-correct human model with
anatomy and physiology called Santos was created by VSR researchers. |
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CCAD renovates 2000 sq ft to house VSR
Dr. V. C. Patel, Director of CCAD announces
the renovation of 2000 sq ft in support of VSR activities. This wing is now the most modern research
facility where students and staff of VSR are co-located. |
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VSR Receives $2.54 Million from US Army Iowa City, IA – November 17, 2003 – the
College of Engineering at The University of Iowa announced today that college
researchers have been awarded a contract in response to a Broad Agency
Announcement (BAA) from the US Army Tank Automotive Command Center
(TACOM). The contract totaling $2.548 million for the first year with
renewable options is to conduct research in support of the Army’s transformation
vision to a light objective force. This research will assist TACOM’s
vision to develop digital human technology as a functional and effective tool
for the design and evaluation of Future Combat Systems (FCS). |
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Faculty Prof. Colby Swan Staff Jenny Simpson, Secretary II |
Graduate Students
Meagan Shanahan Visiting Faculty Prof. Esteban Pena Prof. Nasri Rabadi |
Contact Information Dr.
Karim Abdel-Malek The
University of Iowa Iowa
City, IA 52242 Tel.
319-335-5676 Email: amalek@engineering.uiowa.edu
www.digital-humans.org |
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