Advanced Virtual Prototyping Research Centre
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- Full name
- Advanced Virtual Prototyping Research Centre
- Acronym
- AVPRC
- Website
- http://www.avprc.ac.uk
- Keywords
- Virtual Prototyping, Collaborative Workspaces, Computational Steering, Tele-immersive Environment, Urban Planning
- Budget
- € 2.5 Million Euros
- Start date
- 6/1/2000
- End date
- 9/1/2004
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Partners
- University of Salford
- University of Manchester
- University of Lancaster
Funding Bodies
- EPSRC
Contact
Objectives
To develop advanced virtual prototyping technologies for supporting concurrent engineering
Main Results
Over 20 publications and software
End Users
Evaluation Methodologies
Questionnaires, laboratory experiments.
Design Approach
Task/User Analysis
Publications
Aspin R., Fernando T. et. al. (2001), A Conceptual Framework for Multi-perspective Interactive Virtual Workspace, ITCON Journal, Vol. 6, 2001
Murray N., Fernando T., Aouad G., (2003) A Virtual Environment for the Design and Simulated Construction of Prefabricated Buildings, Virtual Reality Journal, Vol. 6, No 4, 2003.
Marcelino L, Murray N, Fernando T., (2003) A Constraint Manager to Support Virtual Maintainability, Computers and Graphics, Vol. 27, pages 19-26.
Soltani A., Tawfik H, Fernando T. (2003) Path planning in construction sites : performance evaluation of the Dijkstra, A*, and GA search algorithms, Advanced Engineering Informatics, Vol. 16(4), pp.291-303.
Soltani A. and Fernando T. (2004) A Fuzzy Based Multi-objective Path Planning of Construction, International Journal of Automation in Construction (Accepted).
Goulermas J Y, Liatsis P., Fernando T.,(2004) Constrained nonlinear minimisation for regularisation of the stereo correspondence problem, IEEE Translation on Circuits and Systems for Video Technologies.
Figueiredo M, Fernando T., (2004). Parallel Surface Collision Detection Implementation with OpenMP. IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks, Innsbruck, Austria, pp. 464-46, February.
Wu, K. C. and Fernando, T. (2004) A Novel Interface Paradigm for Supporting Product Design, Shape Modeling International (SMI04), Genova, Italy.
Figueiredo M, Fernando T., (2003). Surface Collision Detection with the Overlapping Bounding Box between Virtual Prototype Models. VRAP 2003, International Conference on Advanced Research in Virtual Prototype Models, Leiria, Portugal, pp. 349 – 356.
Yao, J. Fernando, T. Tawfik, H., Billing, I., (2004) U-Plan: A, Collaborative Urban Planning Environment, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising, Sevilla, Spain, June.
Wu, K. C., Fernando, T. and Tawfik, H. (2003) FreeSculptor: A Computer-Aided Freeform Design Environment, International Conference on Geometric Modeling and Graphics (GMAG03), London, England.
Yao, J., Tawfik, H., Fernando, T., (2003) Supporting Collaborative Urban Planning with GIS and Virtual Reality, Proceedings of the GIS Research UK, City University, London, UK, April.
Figueiredo M., Fernando T., (GMG2003). An Unified Framework to Solve the Broad and Narrow Phases of the Collision Detection Problem in Virtual Prototype Environments, Geometric Modeling and GraphicsÂ’2003, London
Marcelino L., Fernando T., (2003), A Hi-Performance Virtual Reality System for Maintenance Simulation, IASTAD International Conference, CST2003, Cancun Maxico.
Figueiredo M, Fernando T., (2003). Collision Detection for Virtual Prototyping Environments, de XIII ADM ¬ XV INGEGRAF International Conference, Naples, Italy.
Marcelino L, Murray N., Fernando T., (2003). A User Interface for Virtual Maintainability in Immersive Environments, HCI International, Vol. 1, pages 1183-1187.
Murray N, Fernando T., (October 2003) Development of an Immersive Assembly and Maintenance Environment, Advanced Research in Virtual and Rapid Prototyping (VRAP 2003), Leiria, Portugal.
Murray N, Goulermas Y.G., Fernando T., (2003) Visual Tracking for a Virtual Environment, Norman Murray, HCI International, Vol. 1, pages 1198-1202.
