Real-time hybrid virtuality for prevention of excavation related utility strikes

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Talmaki, Sanat ^a   Kamat, Vineet R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Accidents; Buried utilities; Collision avoidance; Hybrid virtuality; Information technology; Monitoring; Real time visualization; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MONITORING; MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING; REPAIR; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BURIED UTILITIES; COLLISION DETECTION ALGORITHM; COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK; CONCURRENT VISUALIZATION; HYBRID VIRTUALITY; REAL TIME VISUALIZATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; UNDERGROUND UTILITIES;

EXCAVATION;

EID: 84898998377     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000269     Document Type: Article

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