| Why Work with the University of
Iowa VSR Team? A. This
technology will reduce your lead times and will reduce costs of making physical
prototypes.
B. Human modeling and simulation technology
has a proven record of incresing product safety. By implementing Santos early in the
design cycle, a company is able to predict and alleviate safety problems associated with
their design.
C. Because you would want to test your
products from all aspects before you send it out on the market.
D. Because you want to obtain the most
effective design of your plants in terms of human factors, number of operators per
station, number of tasks per operator.
While Santos is only a few years old, the
technology used in Santos is quite revolutionary. It has surpassed the commercial
products by many margins because we have been able to solve many outstanding problems,
most significantly are the following:
a. High degree of freedoms for
modeling the human body. Santos now has 87 active DOF.
b. Real-time environment for Santos.
No need to wait to animate the motion any more. You ask Santos to do
something, and he does it, right there and then.
c. Dynamics without integration.
This is perhaps the most significant contribution we have made at VSR and is a
result of true multi-disciplinary research combining kinematics, dynamics, optimization,
physiology, and biomechanics.
See more on our Major Technical
Accomplishments Page.
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