VRMDS: An intuitive virtual environment for supporting the conceptual design of mechanisms

Virtual Reality

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 57-68

  Alvarez, Juan Camilo ^a   Su, Hai Jun ^a  

^a Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided design; Conceptual design; Haptic interfaces; Mechanism design; Multi body dynamics simulation; SimMechanics; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

DESIGN PROCESS; DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT; DYNAMIC MOTIONS; DYNAMICS SIMULATION; HAND TRACKING; IMMERSIVE VISUALIZATION; IMMERSIVE VR; INTERACTIVE DESIGN; INTUITIVE OPERATIONS; MECHANICAL JOINTS; MECHANISM DESIGN; MULTI-BODY DYNAMIC; PLANAR MECHANISM; RUNTIMES; SCRIPT LANGUAGES; SIMMECHANICS; SPATIAL MECHANISM;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; DATA STRUCTURES; DYNAMICS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HAPTIC INTERFACES; MACHINE DESIGN; MATLAB; STUDIOS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84857653395     PISSN: 13594338     EISSN: 14349957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10055-009-0144-z     Document Type: Article

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