NSF/I/UCRC Center for Information Protection - Webfilings
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: Webfilings
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Immersive Development Self Organizing Map Enhancement
PI: Eliot Winer
Co-PIs:
James Oliver
Funding Agency: Boeing
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NSF/I/UCRC Center for Information Protection - Boeing
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: Boeing
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NSF I/U/CRC Center for Information Protection - John Deere
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: John Deere Foundation
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NSF/I/UCRC Center for Information Protection - Rockwell Collins
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: Rockwell Collins Inc.
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PI: Eliot Winer
Co-PIs:
Stephen Gilbert
Funding Agency: Boeing
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Augmented Reality Interface to Facilitate Product Assembly Phase II:Generalization and Robustness
PI: James Oliver
Funding Agency: Rockwell Collins Inc.
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Preflight Augmented Reality Inspection Program
PI: Eliot Winer
Funding Agency: Boeing
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Tanker Receiver Simulation
PI: Eliot Winer
Co-PIs:
Stephen Gilbert
Funding Agency: Boeing
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Operator Performance Evaluation
PI: Greg Luecke
Co-PIs:
Stephen Gilbert
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Visualization of Multidisciplinary Design Data Phase II
PI: Eliot Winer
Co-PIs:
James Oliver
Funding Agency: Boeing
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Motion Base Operation, Synchronization, and Control
PI: Greg Luecke
Funding Agency: Winegard Co.
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Demonstration System Development for Hybrid Method 3D Shape Measurement
PI: Song Zhang
Funding Agency: ISU Research Foundation
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NSF/I/UCRC Center for Information Protection - Boeing
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: Boeing
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NSF/I/U/CRC Center for Information Protections - John Deere
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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IT Adventures
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: Iowa Department of Economic Development
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Augmented Reality Interface to Facilitate Product Assembly
PI: James Oliver
Funding Agency: Rockwell Collins Inc.
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Virtual Visual Management: The Digital Obeya Room
PI: Stephen Gilbert
Funding Agency: Caterpillar
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Ignite Ames Event
PI: Stephen Gilbert
Funding Agency: Iowa Department of Economic Development
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Development of a Collaborative Design Environment
PI: James Oliver
Co-PIs:
Eliot Winer
Funding Agency: Boeing
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Visualization of Multidisciplinary Design Data
PI: James Oliver
Co-PIs:
Eliot Winer
Funding Agency: Boeing
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Virtual Prototyping Collaboration
PI: Stephen Gilbert
Co-PIs:
Eliot Winer
Funding Agency: Boeing
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Ignite Ames Event
PI: Stephen Gilbert
Funding Agency: Iowa Department of Economic Development
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Integration of Real-Time User Controlled Image Capture Tools
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Co-PIs:
Doug McCorkle
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Integrated Robust Optimal design for Quality Improvement and Cost Reduction in Product Development
PI: Atul Kelkar
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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NSF/I/UCRC Center for Information Protection - Boeing
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: Boeing
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NSF/I/CRC Center for Information Protection - Union Pacific
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: Union Pacific
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NSI I/ucrc Center for Information Protection - Deere
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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The Effect of Homeowner Preferences on Wind Farm Optimization: Quantification and Modulation
PI: Erin MacDonald
Funding Agency: Ames National Laboratory
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Advanced Live, Virtual, and Constructive Training Systems
PI: Stephen Gilbert
Co-PIs:
James Oliver, Eliot Winer, Alexander Stoytchev
Funding Agency: Department of the Army
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Decision Making In Emergency Responders: Innovation In Naturalistic Decision Making Research
PI: Nir Keren
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Internet Scale Event and Attack Generation Enviroment
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: Department of Justice
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A Virtual Reality Interface for Product/Analysis Data Visualization
PI: James Oliver
Funding Agency: Rockwell Collins Inc.
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Device Interaction Study For Google Earth For
Command And Control Operations (ge2co)
PI: Eliot Winer
Co-PIs:
Stephen Gilbert
Funding Agency: Mechdyne Corporation / Fakespace
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Extensible Virtual Engineering Tools for Improved Product Design
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Collaborative Research: Constraint-based Compliant Mechanism Design using Virtual Reality as a Design Interface - REU
PI: Judy Vance
Co-PIs:
James Oliver
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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2010 IT-Olympics
IT-Adventures is a partnership forged between Iowa State University, the Technology Association of Iowa (TAI), the Iowa chapter of InfraGard, IT industries and Iowa businesses. The program is dedicated to inspiring interest about information technology among high school students...
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: Iowa Mathematics & Science Education Partnership
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Deere - IROD
PI: Atul Kelkar
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Experimental Command and Control Project
IT-Adventures, which is in its second year, is dedicated to increasing interest in and awareness of information technology among high school students across the state using three content areas including cyber defense, robotics and game design programming. We use...
PI: Brian Mennecke
Funding Agency: Rockwell Collins Inc.
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Ignite IT Event
PI: Stephen Gilbert
Funding Agency: Iowa Department of Economic Development
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IT Olympics 2009
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: Iowa Department of Economic Development
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IT-Olympics, 2009
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: Iowa Mathematics & Science Education Partnership
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Virtual Reality Implementation Study
PI: James Oliver
Co-PIs:
Eliot Winer
Funding Agency: Boeing
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REU Site: Summer Program for Interdisciplinary Research and Education: Emerging Interface Technologies
PI: Stephen Gilbert
Co-PIs:
Eliot Winer, James Oliver
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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NSF I/UCRC Center for Information Protection - Boeing
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: Boeing
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Experimental Command and Control Project
The primary objective of this project is to demonstrate the potential for game simulations to be used to identify patterns of behavior, environmental contextual factors, and similar cues. Additionally, the project will examine the reasoning to sensing and responding to...
PI: Brian Mennecke
Funding Agency: Rockwell Collins Inc.
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Targeted Industries Networking Fund Program
The targeted industries networking fund establishes a program to provide financial assistance to support sponsorships of networking events for the creation of new deal flow within the targeted industries of advanced manufacturing, biosciences, or information technology. Sponsors of networking...
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: Iowa Department of Economic Development
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NSF REU - Modeling 3D Geologic Structures in a Multisensory (touch & sound) Virtual Environment
For many geoscientific tasks—such as natural resource exploration, geohazard prevention or aquifer-characterization—geologists need detailed information about the underlying structure of subsurface rock formations in the form of a computer 3D Earth model. Traditionally, 3D geologic shapes have been modeled using...
PI: Chris Harding
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Creating an Information Dashboard to Explore Market Data For Enhanced Portfolio Creation and Management
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Collaborative Proposal Scalable Virtual Machine Laboratory Systems
As information assurance (IA) education continues to grow in importance, it is becoming necessary to develop systems that enable scaleable, affordable, maneageable laboratory environments. There is a clear need for realistic laboratories and assignments that can be implemented in developing...
PI: Thomas Daniels
Co-PIs:
Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Model Based Enterprise Improved Design Effectiveness through Next Generation Visualization (INDEV)
The goal of this project is to integrate modeling and simulation (M&S) tools with visual environments in order to allow practice with real-time decision making against key design characteristics.
One of the current problems with CAD models in VR systems is...
PI: James Oliver
Funding Agency: SCRA
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Biomass Feedstock Assembly to Gasification Process Computational Interface
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Battelle
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Cyber Crime Program
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: Department of Justice
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Meta!Blast: An Immersive Interactive Learning Module for Cell Biology
The driving idea behind the Meta!Blast project is that interactive, dynamic learning environments can facilitate student learning of complex biological concepts. In this interactive, immersive, 3-D game, students will be immersed in a biologically accurate plant cell. Individual biological...
PI: Eve Wurtele
Co-PIs:
Diane Bassham, Julie Dickerson, Steven Herrnstadt
Funding Agency: National Institute of Health (NIH)
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A Virtual reality Interface for Product/Analysis Data Visualization
The goal of this project is to create a software tool that enables engineers to import complex models from CAD systems using the STEP standard and visualize product design and related information within a three-dimensional virtual reality environment. This interface...
PI: James Oliver
Funding Agency: Rockwell Collins Inc.
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Virutal Teleoperation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
PI: James Oliver
Funding Agency: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
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Improvement of Postsecondary Education -Comprehensive program (FIPSE)
The five components of this program provide architectural students with an innovative, visually-driven package of products. The Interactive Building Software (IBS) is the first element of the program, and teaches how architectural principles and applications are integrated through environmental systems...
PI: Eliot Winer
Funding Agency: Florida International University
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Investigation of the Behavior of Mercury Compounds in Coal Fired Boilers
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Fuel Tech, Inc.
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Developing Sustainable off-Grid Energy Systems in Rural Mali
We believe that we can aid the improvement of the lives of rural Malians by using an innovative modular electrical system to address the need for locally controlled, economically feasible, and sustainable energy and lighting systems in rural villages. Students...
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Co-PIs:
Richard LeSar
Funding Agency: National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance
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Deere & Company: Phase 5 Research
VRAC's expertise in emerging interface technologies addresses a diverse range of challenging problems, including those of leading industry innovators. VRAC's partnership with Deere and Company, one of the world's leading manufacturers of agricultural, forestry, construction, and turf-care equipment, is one...
PI: Eliot Winer
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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NSF I/UCRC Center for Information Protection - John Deere
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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NSF I/UCRC Center for Information Protection - Rockwell
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: Rockwell Collins Inc.
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CyberInnovation Institute Industry Memberships
PI: James Oliver
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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IT Adventures Programs
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: Iowa Department of Economic Development
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Multi-touch Technology: Applications to Homeland Security and ISU Research
Priority 5 (P5) produces critical infrastructure management software used by organizations such as the DOD and DOE. P5 has teamed with ISU researchers to develop a best in class multi-touch user interface that will allow multiple users to interact...
PI: Stephen Gilbert
Funding Agency: Grow Iowa Values Fund/ISU VPRED
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Development of Real-Time Graphics Tools for High Fidelity CD Data
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: US Dept. of Defense
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Program for Space-borne and Earthbound System Sustainability
PI: Eliot Winer
Co-PIs:
Amy Kaleita-Forbes
Funding Agency: ISU - ISGCC
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Graphical User Interface for Fire Modeling Codes
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Reaction Engineering International
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NIST MEP
PI: James Oliver
Funding Agency: National Institute of Science and Technology
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Commercialization of 3D Interactive Digit...
PI: Eliot Winer
Co-PIs:
James Oliver
Funding Agency: ISU - Research Park
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IT Olympics
IT-Olympics is the capstone event for students who participate in IT-Clubs in high schools across Iowa. IT-Clubs provide an avenue for students to gain access to learning materials from Iowa State University, experiment with provided equipment, and ask questions...
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: Various (see Notes)
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Mechdyne-VRAC-Gilbert
PI: Stephen Gilbert
Co-PIs:
Eve Wurtele, Chiu Shui Chan, Eliot Winer
Funding Agency: Mechdyne Corporation / Fakespace
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Biomass Feedstock Assembly to Gasification Process Computational Interface Development
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Idaho Nat'l Engineering & Environmental Lab of DOE
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Kansei Evaluation Methodology, Product, and Packaging Design for Tostitos Brand Product Line
Kansei engineering by definition is to seek the structure of emotions which exist beneath human behaviors. This structure is referred to as a person’s Kansei. It focuses on how people respond emotionally to products, packages, and brand experiences and...
PI: Debra Satterfield
Co-PIs:
Sunghyun Kang, Roger Baer
Funding Agency: Frito Lay North America
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Virtual Teleoperation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
VRAC Director James Oliver and his research team received an additional $4.2 Million award from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to continue research and development of the military’s next generation control interface for unmanned aerial vehicles. The researchers are...
PI: James Oliver
Co-PIs:
Eliot Winer, Alexander Stoytchev, Stephen Gilbert
Funding Agency: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
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Develop an Optimized Air System for the Two-row Cotton Picker
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Improvement of Postsecondary Education-Comprehensive Program (FIPSE)
PI: Eliot Winer
Funding Agency: SUNY at Buffalo
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Mapping Sound to 3-D Virtual Materials: a real-time touch sensitive instrument for Virtual Engineering and Electroacoustic Music
PI: Christopher Hopkins
Co-PIs:
Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: ISU - Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities
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Advanced Systems Design Suite
PI: Eliot Winer
Co-PIs:
James Oliver
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Gift from Iowa Department of Economic Development
IT-Adventures is an innovative program to engage Iowa high school students in exploring and experimenting with information technology (IT) through educational content delivery, competitive events, and service learning projects.
IT-Adventures is a partnership forged between Iowa State University’s Information Assurance...
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: Iowa Department of Economic Development
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Virtual Advanced Power Training Environments
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: US Dept. of Energy
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Development of Integrated Virtual Engineering Tools
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Battelle
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Development of Integrated Virtual Engineering Tools
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Battelle
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Bioinformatics and Computational Systems Biology Summer Institute at Iowa State University
PI: Julie Dickerson
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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NIST MEP
PI: James Oliver
Funding Agency: National Institute of Science and Technology
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Interactive Visualization and Analysis of Large Scale Graphs for Biological Network Modeling
PI: Julie Dickerson
Co-PIs:
Dirk Reiners, Eve Wurtele
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Virtual Teleoperation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles-Phase 2
VRAC Director James Oliver and his research team received an additional $4.2 Million award from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to continue research and development of the military’s next generation control interface for unmanned aerial vehicles. The researchers...
PI: James Oliver
Co-PIs:
Derrick Parkhurst, Eliot Winer, Alexander Stoytchev
Funding Agency: Air Force
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Graphical User Interface for Fire Modeling Codes (DOD SBIR)
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Reaction Engineering International
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Barley Coordinated Agricultural Project: Leveraging genomics, genetics, and breeding for gene discovery and barley improvement
The Barley Coordinated Agricultural Project (CAP) integrates and uses state-of-the-art genomic tools and approaches in plant breeding programs to help develop superior cultivars. Researchers from nineteen institutions, including ISU, are working to develop a genetic map of barley that includes...
PI: Julie Dickerson
Funding Agency: US Dept. of Agriculture
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Portable Virtual Reality System
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Indian Hills Community College (NSF)
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High Density Sensor Network Development
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: US Dept. of Energy
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PLEXdb: Plant Expression Database
PLEXdb is a unified public resource for large-scale plant and pathogen microarray data that allows more extensive links between plant gene sequences and the broad range of expression data being developed.
This research intends to provide an outlet for interactive expression...
PI: Julie Dickerson
Co-PIs:
Roger Wise
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Business Decisions Within a Virtual Environment [with Tom Buhr (AMS), Brian Gilmore (Deere & Company), Jerry Duncan (Deere & Company)]
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Evaluation of Virtal Reality Snowplow Simulator Training
The Iowa Department of Transportation (IDOT) recently purchased a TranSim VS III snowplow simulator. Previous research suggests that virtual reality simulators can be used as a training tool and can lead to reduced operations cost and increased safety. Virtual reality...
PI: Derrick Parkhurst
Funding Agency: Iowa Department of Transportation
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Full Virtual Build - Phase 2: Optimal Machine Configuration Tool
In partnership with Deere & Co, VRAC is developing an interactive, immersive tool to assist engineers in the design of cab suspension systems. This project includes developing visualization tools, designing experiments, and animating the vehicle and road so that users...
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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ISEAGE: Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment
Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment (ISEAGE pronounced Ice Age) ISEAGE is a unique facility at a public university dedicated to creating a virtual Internet for the purpose of researching, designing, and testing cyber defense mechanisms as well as analysis...
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Justice
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Creation of the Advanced Systems Design Suite [with Chris Rupiper, Robin Friestad, Mike Ryken (Waterloo PEC), Josh Fielding, Brian Gilmore (Deere & Company), Al Sheidler, Jerry Duncan (Deere & Company]
As John Deere products have become increasingly more complex, the need to evaluate them quickly and efficiently at early stages of design has become increasingly more important. Current models for evaluating new product concepts are tremendously time consuming. In addition,...
PI: Eliot Winer
Co-PIs:
James Oliver
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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NCO Intelligent Distribution System
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: Boeing
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NSF I/UCRC Center for Information Protection
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Evaluation Of User-Interface Paradigms For Operator Operations On The Move
Using software previously developed (in-part) by Iowa State University, this project will propose and evaluate several user-interface paradigms to enable soldiers operating command and control systems to make better decisions faster when operating on the move. The specific tasks to...
PI: Eliot Winer
Funding Agency: Fakespace Systems
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Scholarship Award for David Kabala from I/itsec
PI: Carolina Cruz-Neira
Funding Agency: National Training Systems Association
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MetNet: Integrated Software for Arabidopsis Systems Biology Research
[Research Site]
MetNet is a suite of computational tools that brings together biologists from around the world to visualize, analyze, and exchange information about Arabidopsis, the tiny plant that has emerged as a model for understanding the genetic and metabolic behavior of...
PI: Eve Wurtele
Co-PIs:
Dan Berleant, Dianne Cook, Julie Dickerson, Les Miller, Heike Hofmann
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Using Digital Video Analysis to Monitor Driver Behavior at Intersections
Commercially available instruments for road-side data collection purposes take highly limited measurements, require extensive manual input or are too expensive for widespread use. However, inexpensive computer vision techniques for digital video analysis can be applied to automate the monitoring of...
PI: Derrick Parkhurst
Funding Agency: Iowa Department of Transportation
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Virtual Design Exploration and Optimization Environment
Traditionally, the product design process involves designing a shape, selecting materials, performing analysis, building prototypes, and testing. To achieve a suitable design, numerous iterations are performed at several steps in the process. But these iterations can be time consuming and...
PI: Judy Vance
Co-PIs:
Eliot Winer
Funding Agency: Procter & Gamble Company
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SFS Fellowships for Information Assurance Students
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Analysis of Gas Turbine Thermal Performances
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: US Dept. of Energy
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Immersive Combine Simulator [with Paul McCredie (Harvester, Marketing), Mitch Hobby, Joe Hockett (Harvester PDD Silvis), Jerry Duncan (Deere & Company)]
An immersive combine simulator is being developed in partnership with Deere & Co. to provide a training environment for learning the protocols of the control area network that operate its combine. One version of the combine simulator was demonstrated at...
PI: Greg Luecke
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Using Virtual Reality for Painter Training [with Mike Meyers (Des Moines)]
To train new painters at Deere & Co., researchers are building a virtual reality training booth. To create a realistic training environment, the booth is designed with real equipment and an approximation of the lighting and optical effects, such as...
PI: Eliot Winer
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Effective Integration of Thin Film
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: ISU - Research Park
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Evolving VR Juggler for Production Use
PI: Dirk Reiners
Funding Agency: ISU - Research Park
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Constraint-based Compliant Mechanism Design Using Virtual Reality
Virtual reality, combined with constraint-based design methods, will provide a natural three-dimensional design environment for engineers to rapidly explore and generate constraint-based design concepts that are both creative and efficient.
Constraint-based compliant mechanism design theory is a powerful and rational...
PI: Judy Vance
Co-PIs:
James Oliver
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Real-time Immersive Design
Deere & Company, in partnership with VRAC, is developing and advancing virtual reality technology to simulate vehicle operations, evaluate human factors and ergonomics, analyze complex engineering data, and build capabilities in a broad range of other product and manufacturing process...
PI: James Oliver
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Multiphase Analysis and Fluid/thermal System Integration
Deere & Company, in partnership with VRAC, is developing and advancing virtual reality technology to simulate vehicle operations, evaluate human factors and ergonomics, analyze complex engineering data, and build capabilities in a broad range of other product and manufacturing process...
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Deere and Company Phase IV Research
Deere & Company, in partnership with VRAC, is developing and advancing virtual reality technology to simulate vehicle operations, evaluate human factors and ergonomics, analyze complex engineering data, and build capabilities in a broad range of other product and manufacturing process...
PI: Atul Kelkar
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Development of Integrated Virtual Engineering Tools to Facilitate Unique High-Level Decision Making Capabilities
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Idaho Nat'l Engineering & Environmental Lab of DOE
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Web Site Usability Study, Phase I
PI: Dan Berleant
Co-PIs:
Shana Shiang-Fong Smith
Funding Agency: Invitrogen
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Using Immersive Virtual Reality for Realistic Life-size Fire Safety Training
PI: Shana Shiang-Fong Smith
Funding Agency: Department of Homeland Security
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Improvement of Low-Vision Assistive Technology (Student: David Winfield)
PI: Derrick Parkhurst
Funding Agency: Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research
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Cyber Crime Program
PI: Doug Jacobson
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Justice
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Virtual Phacoemulsification Station (working with Dr. Nicolas Hamouche, Eye Clinic, McFarland Clinic, and Dr. Thomas Oetting, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Iowa)
PI: Chris Harding
Co-PIs:
Carolina Cruz-Neira
Funding Agency: ISU - Ames Laboratory
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Engineering Analysis Based Data Compression
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Full Virtual Build - Phase 1: Optional Machine Configuration Tool
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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TEACH: A retreat to enhance the long-term educational strategy of the HCI program
PI: Derrick Parkhurst
Funding Agency: ISU - Center for Teaching Excellence
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Virtual Design Exploration and Optimization Environment
PI: Judy Vance
Co-PIs:
Eliot Winer
Funding Agency: Procter & Gamble Company
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Full Virtual Build - Phase 0: Project Initiation
Deere & Company, in partnership with VRAC, is developing and advancing virtual reality technology to simulate vehicle operations, evaluate human factors and ergonomics, analyze complex engineering data, and build capabilities in a broad range of other product and manufacturing process...
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Development of a Large-scale Virtual Reality Facility and Virtual Science Program
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Desert Research Institute
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VR Setting for Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Work Space
PI: Chiu Shui Chan
Funding Agency: American Institute of Architects
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Distributed Volume Rendering for High-quality Display and Interaction with Large Data Ses
PI: Chris Harding
Co-PIs:
Dirk Reiners
Funding Agency: ISU - Vice Provost for Research & Advanced Studies
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Controls Development for a Low Profile Tracking Antenna - Continuation Proposal
PI: Greg Luecke
Funding Agency: Winegard Co.
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Support for Globalization Course
PI: James Bernard
Co-PIs:
Mark Rectanus
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Support for Globalization Course
PI: James Bernard
Co-PIs:
Mark Rectanus
Funding Agency: Cargill
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Development of Computational Mass and Energy Balance Models for Animal Manure Treatment Processes
PI: Tom Richard
Co-PIs:
Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: NLRI of the RDA of Korea
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An Investigation of the Utility and Technical Feasibility of Immersive Macromolecular Visualization for Use in Drug
[Research Site]
Company assistance program with Demonstratives, Inc. administered by CATD....
PI: Adrian Sannier
Funding Agency: Demonstratives, Inc.
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Development of New Bio-engineering Training Software
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Indian Hills Community College (NSF)
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Development of a Virtual Porous Medium
Immense research is being done in reducing ground water pollution by
understanding the groundwater flow patterns in nation's large water
bodies. Environmental engineers were used to computing and visualizing
the flow of ground water imperfections (particles) over
non-intersecting conducting and non-conducting medium (ellipsoids) for
a...
PI: Eliot Winer
Funding Agency: SUNY at Buffalo
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Assessing the Impact of Fire in Nuclear Power Plants
The goal of this project is to fuse fire modeling techniques with an interactive virtual engineering environment to demonstrate the impact of a large oil fire in a compartment at the Fort Calhoun Station. This will enable a broad...
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Omaha Public Power District
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Developing Virtual Engineering Tools for Livestock Production
This funding supports the development of a new class of virtual engineering tools for use in livestock production. By developing these tools we can direclty impact the Iowa economy and establish Iowa State University as an international leader in...
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Co-PIs:
Tom Richardson
Funding Agency: IPRT Research Seed-Funding Program
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Developing Virtual Engineering Tools for Hoop Swine Housing
Iowa State University is developing cutting-edge computational tools to design and evaluate swine housing systems in a 3-D virtual reality environment. These virtual engineering tools can allow real-time analysis of a wide range of possible options including building shape,...
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: National Pork Board
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Low Profile Antenna Development
Continued research with Winegard on antenna development....
PI: Greg Luecke
Funding Agency: Winegard Co.
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Integrating Low-Cost Virtual Reality into Design and Technical Graphics Curricula
[Research Site]
This project wil introduce low-cost virtual reality technology into design and technical graphics classrooms and laboratories, as well as develop instructional materials to enhance course delivery. Changing market needs and advances in technology, the focus of CAD technology education,...
PI: Shana Shiang-Fong Smith
Co-PIs:
Adrian Sannier, Ann Thompson
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Interactive Product Development in a Virtual Environment Utilizing Haptics (REU)
This grant will continue support for two graduate students. The principal investigator believes that working closely with graduate students in the program will provide them with a good introduction to graduate research work....
PI: Judy Vance
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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C4 ISR Enterprise System Engineering
The VRAC research team is engaged with Fakespace and U.S. Army’s CECOM directorate in the immersive technologies phase of the C4ISR Enterprise System Engineering program, focused on the creation of a new self sustaining mission area for the RDEC. During...
PI: Adrian Sannier
Co-PIs:
James Oliver
Funding Agency: Mechdyne Corporation / Fakespace
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Development of a Virtual Environment for Evaluation of Operability and Maintainability
This supplemental funding supports a student to perform research during the summar of 2003 at Procter and Gamble. The tasks include implementing virtual reality applications in the P&G facilities as well as further development and training of P&G staff....
PI: Judy Vance
Funding Agency: Procter & Gamble Company
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Preliminary Study of the Effect of Virtual Reality Technology on Societal Violence
It is the conjecture that immersive interfaces (e.g., head-mounted displays) are on the verge of becoming ubiquitous. As they power the next surge in the video game marketplace, immersive displays will usher in a new level of experiential realism,...
PI: Adrian Sannier
Co-PIs:
James Oliver
Funding Agency: Various (see Notes)
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Interactive Design
These funds will supplement the work of Dr. Vance in the field of interactive design....
PI: Judy Vance
Funding Agency: General Motors
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BarleyBase, A Prototype Online Database for Cereal Microarrays with Integrated Tools for Data Visualization and Statistical Analysis
The development of microarray technology enables the parallel assessment of thousands of genes in a single experiment. In contrast to investigating individual components of a biological system, system-wide analytical approaches can be pursued. The long-range goal of this...
PI: Julie Dickerson
Co-PIs:
Volker Brendel, Roger Wise, Dianne Cook, Dan Nettleton
Funding Agency: US Dept. of Agriculture
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Interactive Fluid System Visualization and Analysis
The overall goal of this work is to develop a generalized visualization, analysis, and design tool for fluids and thermal systems within a virtual environment. This project seeks to take the first step toward this goal by developing a...
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: General Motors
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Visualizing and Modeling Global Expression Data
Iowa State University will develop computational approach for analysis of genome-wide expression data that will integrate the visualization of different data types with current understanding of the Arabidopsis metabolic and regulatory network....
PI: Julie Dickerson
Co-PIs:
Eve Wurtele
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Visualizing and Modeling Global Expression Data
By 2010, multiple Arabidopsis data sets will detail the genome-wide accumulation of Arabidopsis mRNAs, proteins, and metabolites. These data sets will be generated from plants grown under particular environmental and developmental conditions, from different organs, tissues and cell types,...
PI: Dianne Cook
Co-PIs:
Eve Wurtele, Julie Dickerson
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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ITR: Display of High-Dimensional Metabolic Networks in the C6 Immersive Virtual Reality System
This project will visualize and model complex matabolic pathways by developing a software system that enables scalable immersive environments, which will range from desktop visualization to the NSF-supported fully immersive C6 projection system in the Virtual Reality Applications Center at...
PI: Julie Dickerson
Co-PIs:
Carolina Cruz-Neira, Eve Wurtele
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Human Computer Interaction
ISU, using VRAC with its proven record of growth in external funding as a base, can quickly expand its focus to become a leader in HCI research. To foster this research opportunity, we are recruiting faculty with both traditional...
PI: James Bernard
Co-PIs:
Carolina Cruz-Neira, James Oliver, Adrian Sannier
Funding Agency: ISU - Vice Provost for Research & Advanced Studies
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Combining Cognitive Psychology and Virtual Reality to Evaluate Building Performance
An experimental stimulus will be developed for evaluating cognitive activities performed in an office environment. The applied methods include constructing a virtual reality (VR) model of an office in Washington, DC, which will be used as a setting to...
PI: Chiu Shui Chan
Funding Agency: American Institute of Architects
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Analysis and Implementation of a Tracking Mobile Television Receiver
This research includes completion of the final design for the Sensar automatic antenna and the development of software to support a new mobile tracking antenna designed for marine vehicles....
PI: Greg Luecke
Funding Agency: Winegard Co.
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Center for Research on Dietary Supplements
PI: Eve Wurtele
Funding Agency: National Institute of Health (NIH)
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Development of a Virtual Environment for Evaluation of Operability and Maintainability
This project will develop a virtual environment for exploration of operability and maintainability design issues. Current evaluations of operability and maintainability are performed using either desktop computer tools or physical mockups. Desktop CAD computer tools can be used...
PI: Judy Vance
Funding Agency: Procter & Gamble Company
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PC-Based Immersive Environments
The objective of the research is to integrate low cost hardware and software to devleop a scalable projection-based immersive virtual reality (VR) system. This research includes the development of a scalable virtual reality cluster driving low cost projection components....
PI: Carolina Cruz-Neira
Funding Agency: Procter & Gamble Company
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U.S. China Cooperative Research: Utilizing Three-Dimensional Data in a Virtual Urban Environment to Support and Evaluate Planning Decisions
Students who are participating in this project will be responsible for completing digital models of two major components of the city of Beijing. They will be exposed to a different culture and learn to understand completely different constructional...
PI: Chiu Shui Chan
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Ashes to Ashes
[Research Site]
A memorial to the victims and survivors of September 11 being developed at Iowa State University will meld art and science. The memorial, called Ashes to Ashes, will be a virtual reality, or immersive sonic environment, featuring music, virtual...
PI: Anne Deane
Co-PIs:
Carolina Cruz-Neira
Funding Agency: ISU - Vice Provost for Research & Advanced Studies
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A Virtual Tornadic Thunderstorm to Enable Student-centered Learning About Complex Storm-Scale Atmospheric Dynamics
[Research Site]
A visually-realistic virtual supercell thunderstorm will be devleoped with data probe capabilities, providing students from K-12 through graduate with opportunities to learn as scientists learn in a constructivist manner. The virtual storm will be a proof of concept for...
PI: William Gallus
Co-PIs:
Carolina Cruz-Neira, Cinzia Cervato
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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MEMS Fabrication, Assembly, Performance, and Cost Tradeoffs with Virtual Reality Design Tools
PI: Li Cao
Funding Agency: IPRT
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Multi-Component Harvesting Equipment for Inexpensive Sugars from Crop Residues
Biomass conversion to fermentable sugars for the purpose of producing fuels, chemicals and other industrial products is well understood. Most bioenergy strategies rely on low-cost fermentable sugars for sustainability and economic viability in the market place. Exploitation of...
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Co-PIs:
Funding Agency: US Dept. of Energy
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An Atonal Approach to Sonification of Scientific and Engineering Data
PI: Kris Bryden
Co-PIs:
, Kenneth Bryden, Adrian Sannier, Pat Schnabel
Funding Agency: IPRT
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Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation & Education Conference Scholarship
PI: Carolina Cruz-Neira
Funding Agency: National Training Systems Association
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Development of Rapid Solutions for Reacting Flows
The goal of this research project is to develop physics-driven numerical techniques that will provide rapid solutions to power plant problems based on the fundamental physics at the differential scale. This will enable a broad range of possible plant...
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Fuel Tech, Inc.
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Learner Connections in Biotechnology: Virtual Bioprocess
Indian Hills Community College in Ottumwa, Iowa, proposes to develop a fully interactive three-dimensional virtual reality model of the fermentation process. The goal of this National Science Foundation project is to fill a state and national need for well-prepared...
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Indian Hills Community College (NSF)
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Virtual Hindu Temple
[Research Site]
PI: James Bernard
Co-PIs:
Carolina Cruz-Neira
Funding Agency: ISU - Center for Teaching Excellence
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Interactive Product Development in a Virtual Environment Utilizing Haptics (RET)
This RET supplement supports the work of Sylvia Tiala. Ms. Tiala is currently an Industrial Education Instructor at Boone High School in Boone, Iowa. The focus of this supplement is on developing the skills Ms. Tiala needs to...
PI: Judy Vance
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Analysis and Implementation of a Tracking Mobile Television Receiver (continuation)
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PI: Greg Luecke
Funding Agency: Winegard Co.
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Comparative Visualization of Experimental and Computational Biomass Separation Data
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Idaho Nat'l Engineering & Environmental Lab of DOE
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A Virtual Reality Applications Facility for Visualization of Joint Battlespace
PI: James Bernard
Co-PIs:
Carolina Cruz-Neira
Funding Agency: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
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Military Applications of Immersive Environments
Soldiers may one day be given memories of places they've never been by undergoing training in a virtual reality system. That's one goal of this research project. The effort will provide Iowa Guard personnel with comprehensive and flexible...
PI: Adrian Sannier
Co-PIs:
James Bernard, Carolina Cruz-Neira, James Oliver
Funding Agency: Iowa Department of Public Defense
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Wireless Multimedia Communications for Virtual Environments
[Research Site]
This project will create an integrated program in which faculty members in different disciplines will work closely together to mentor larger teams of students and create solutions to complex problems that combine human factors, real-time systems, compact wearable computers, and...
PI: Julie Dickerson
Co-PIs:
Diane Rover, Carolina Cruz-Neira, Robert Weber
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Utilizing Three-Dimensional Data in a Virtual Urban Environment to Support and Evaluate Planning Decisions
This project will focus on the historic capital city of Beijing, China, but could lead to a tool applicable to any city in the world. Researchers will work with colleagues at the Beijing Polytechnic University (BPU) and officials with...
PI: Chiu Shui Chan
Co-PIs:
Carolina Cruz-Neira, Riad Mahayni, R. Duane Shinn, I-Shian Suen
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Interactive Product Development in a Virtual Environment Utilizing Haptics
[Research Site]
This project seeks to develop the methodology where both CAD designers and analysts can collaborate in a virtual environment to investigate the effects of shape changes on analysis results and further investigate the effect these shape changes have on part...
PI: Judy Vance
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Immersive Collaborative Environments
PI: Carolina Cruz-Neira
Funding Agency: Battelle
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Virtual Prototyping for Interpretation of Analysis Data (continuation)
This project concentrates on developing a virtual reality application to display the computed flow field data and adjacent geometry in the specific processing equipment area so that engineers and management can better understand the fluid dynamics properties of the process....
PI: Judy Vance
Funding Agency: Procter & Gamble Company
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Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation & Education Conference Scholarship
PI: Carolina Cruz-Neira
Funding Agency: National Training Systems Association
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Computational Modeling of a Tangentially Fired Pulverized Coal Furnace: Phase 2
The goal of this project is to extend the computational model of the Ottumwa Plant to include additional features. These features may include: modeling the coal nozzles to improve pollution control, incorporation of a CO model into the furnace...
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Alliant Energy
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Ultra Low Power Enabling Technologies for Adaptive Reconfigurable Power Aware Computing and Communications
PI: Robert Weber
Funding Agency: Nonvolatile Electronics, Inc.
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Visualization of the Joint Battlespace
This project addresses the critical need for battlefield information to pierce the confusion and haze of war. As our surveillance and intelligence capabilities continue to increase, the issues of discrimination, selection and dissemination of information become paramount. The...
PI: James Bernard
Co-PIs:
Carolina Cruz-Neira, Hung Pham, James Oliver, Adrian Sannier, Frank Chavez
Funding Agency: Air Force Research Lab (AFRL/IFB)
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Virtual Reality Environment for Fluid Particle Simulation
[Research Site]
We will develop a virtual environment for fluid particle simulation. The approach consists of taking the existing Hypertrace application and developing an immersive virtual environment for visualizing and interacting with the data. This environment will provide analysts, engineers...
PI: Judy Vance
Funding Agency: Procter & Gamble Company
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Evaluating Human Operator Performance in a Fully Immersive Virtual Reality Environment
PI: James Bernard
Co-PIs:
Carolina Cruz-Neira
Funding Agency: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
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Bioinformatic Tools for Extraction and Modeling of Signal Transduction Networks
Five Iowa State faculty serve as investigators on this project. Dr. Daniel Berleant, Computer Engineering, has responsibility for the automatic document processing system for locating signal transduction links in online databases. Dr. Daniel Ashlock, Mathematics, has responsibility for...
PI:
Co-PIs:
Dan Berleant, Julie Dickerson, Roger Maddux, Eve Wurtele
Funding Agency: Procter & Gamble Company
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Driving Simulator Development
PI: Hung Pham
Funding Agency: Dr. Hung Anh Pham
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Visualization of Gene Expression Data
This project would develop both PC and virtual reality based systems for displaying and visualizing gene expression data that would then be integrated with interpretation components. The phases of this project include development of a preliminary collection of gene...
PI:
Co-PIs:
Eve Wurtele
Funding Agency: Pioneer Hibred
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Advanced Simulator Networking for Vehicle and Equipment Distributed Product Design
This project aims to link the revolutionary new National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS), located at The University of Iowa, with the Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC), located at Iowa State University, through the existing Iowa Communications Network (ICN). The...
PI: James Bernard
Co-PIs:
Carolina Cruz-Neira, Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: University of Iowa/NADS
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Advancing the State of the Art in Flight Simulation Via the Use of Synthetic Environments
PI: James Bernard
Co-PIs:
Jerry Vogel
Funding Agency: Iowa Space Grant Consortium
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Automatic Control for Operator Assist in Heavy-load Handling: Phase II
Positech, an Iowa manufacturer, developed the next generation of materials handling equipment with assistance from the Virtual Reality Applications Center. Adding "power steering" to material handling manipulators can increase productivity and reduce back and other injuries. By lowering...
PI: Greg Luecke
Funding Agency: Positech Corp
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Helping Humanoids by Solving Tasks that Combine Complex Motor Skills with Geometric Reasoning
PI: Steve LaValle
Funding Agency: Honda
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Acquisition of a high performance computer for the C6 system
PI: James Bernard
Co-PIs:
Carolina Cruz-Neira, Judy Vance, Greg Luecke
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Interactive and Dynamic Visual Overviews of Large Multi-Dimensional Data
This research project seeks to develop dynamic and interactive graphics tools for exploratory analysis of very large datasets. These tools, when used in conjunction with data mining algorithms, will enable the user to (1) detect local departures from...
PI: Dianne Cook
Co-PIs:
Vasant Honavar, Les Miller
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Development of Virtual Power Plants
Researchers at VRAC, led by Professor Mark Bryden, have been working with the Department of Energy/National Engineering Technology Laboratory (DOE/NETL) on the development of virtual engineering tools. These virtual engineering tools aid in the design and development of thermal systems...
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: US Dept. of Energy
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Research Experience for Undergraduates - Spatial Mechanism Design in a Virtual Environment
PI: Judy Vance
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Extraction of Gene Regulation Patterns From Expression Data
PI:
Funding Agency: Pioneer Hibred
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A Two-tier Computation and Visualization Facility for Multiscale Problems
This research focuses on the development of a scalable VR cluster in which multiple PCs can be tightly connected to drive a complex immersive system while hiding the complexity from the application developers. The main research aspects will be...
PI: Carolina Cruz-Neira
Funding Agency: Cornell University (NSF)
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Intelligent Assist Device-Design and Prototype
PI: Greg Luecke
Funding Agency: Positech Corp
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Analysis and Implementation of a Tracking Mobile Television Receiver
Winegard has been working with Iowa State University to develop a mobile tracking digital satellite system for use on recreational vehicles. One objective of this project is to develop an approach to integrating available sensor information in order to...
PI: Greg Luecke
Funding Agency: Winegard Co.
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Part to Art: A Comprehensive Geometric Modeling Paradigm for Design of MEMS
PI: Radha Sarma
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Investigation of Interactive Design of Fluids and Heat Transfer Systems within a Virtual Environment
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Co-PIs:
, Carolina Cruz-Neira
Funding Agency: ISU - Vice Provost for Research & Advanced Studies
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Modeling for Biomass Cookstoves for Developing Nations
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: ISU - Vice Provost for Research & Advanced Studies
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Immersive Dynamic Exploration
PI: Dianne Cook
Co-PIs:
Carolina Cruz-Neira
Funding Agency: Atlantic Richfield Company
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Computational Modeling of a Tangentially Fired Pulverized Coal Furnace: Phase I
PI: Kenneth Bryden
Funding Agency: Alliant Energy
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Spatial Mechanism Design in a Virtual Environment
[Research Site]
PI: Judy Vance
Co-PIs:
Pierre M. Larochelle
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Preparation of a proposal for the C6
PI: James Bernard
Co-PIs:
Carolina Cruz-Neira
Funding Agency: ISU - Vice Provost for Research & Advanced Studies
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Synthetic Environments as Enabling Technology for Product Development: Phase II
Deere & Company, in partnership with VRAC, is developing and advancing virtual reality technology to simulate vehicle operations, evaluate human factors and ergonomics, analyze complex engineering data, and build capabilities in a broad range of other product and manufacturing process...
PI: James Bernard
Co-PIs:
Judy Vance, Greg Luecke, Carolina Cruz-Neira
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Synthetic Environments as Enabling Technology for Product Development: Phase I
Deere & Company, in partnership with VRAC, is developing and advancing virtual reality technology to simulate vehicle operations, evaluate human factors and ergonomics, analyze complex engineering data, and build capabilities in a broad range of other product and manufacturing process...
PI: James Bernard
Co-PIs:
Carolina Cruz-Neira, Greg Luecke
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Virtual Prototyping Refinement
PI: James Bernard
Funding Agency: Rockwell Collins Inc.
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Evaluating the Use of Haptics in Virtual CAD Tasks
[Research Site]
The equipment purchased on this grant allows research into the role of haptic feedback in enhancing the ability to design using a virtual CAD program. This equipment will be used to further extend the current research into examining user...
PI: Judy Vance
Funding Agency: Ford Motor Company
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Subsurface Interpretation in an Immersive Virtual Reality Environment
PI: Carolina Cruz-Neira
Funding Agency: Shell International
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REU supplement to Grant #9713818 titled: An Integrated Approach for Die and Mold Machining
PI: Radha Sarma
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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An Integrated Approach for Die and Mold Machining
PI: Radha Sarma
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Interactive Visual Supercomputing for Engineering Applications
PI: Carolina Cruz-Neira
Co-PIs:
James Oliver
Funding Agency: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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Virtual Prototyping for Interpretation of Analysis Data
[Research Site]
This project investigates the potential of virtual reality technology to aid in the interpretation of analysis data. This project concentrates on developing a virtual reality application to display the computed flow field data and adjacent geometry in the specific...
PI: Judy Vance
Funding Agency: Procter & Gamble Company
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REU: Virtual Reality Environment for Spherical Mechanism Design
PI: Judy Vance
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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REU: A New Method for Selective Assembly
PI: Xiaopeng Fang
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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A Career Development Plan: Research and Teaching
This NSF Career Award funds 1) the use of virtual reality techniques to improve product design, and 2) the implementation of active learning techniques in the engineering classroom. The focus of this work is to develop and evaluate virtual...
PI: Judy Vance
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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A New Method for Selective Assembly
PI: Xiaopeng Fang
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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REU: A Career Development Plan: Research and Teaching
This research will provide a template for both the development of virtual reality applications to improve product design and a process to integrate active learning techniques in the engineering classroom. Virtual reality techniques applied to product design will result...
PI: Judy Vance
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Five-Axis Tool Path Generation for Manufacturing Dies and Molds
PI: Radha Sarma
Funding Agency: ISU - Vice Provost for Research & Advanced Studies
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SME Education Foundation Grant
PI: Radha Sarma
Co-PIs:
Erik Salisbury
Funding Agency: Society of Manufacturing Engineers
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Watkins Glen Database
PI: James Oliver
Funding Agency: Mechdyne Corporation / Fakespace
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An Examination of User Interaction Paradigms in Synthetic Environments
PI: Judy Vance
Funding Agency: Ford Motor Company
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An Examination of User Interaction Paradigms in Synthetic Environments
PI: Judy Vance
Funding Agency: Boeing
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Constructing and Reconstructing Notable Buildings to Establish a Virtual Library for Teaching Architectural History
PI: Chiu Shui Chan
Co-PIs:
John Maves, Carolina Cruz-Neira
Funding Agency: Miller Faculty Development Fund
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Representative Geometries for the Integration of CAD/CAM
Testing last update function...
PI: Abir Qamhiyah
Co-PIs:
Carolyn DeLane Heising
Funding Agency: ISU - Vice Provost for Research & Advanced Studies
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A New MEMS Research Program at Iowa State University
PI: Radha Sarma
Co-PIs:
Sachin Sapatnekar
Funding Agency: ISU - Vice Provost for Research & Advanced Studies
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Virtual Historical Documentation Using Real-Time PHSColograms
PI: Carolina Cruz-Neira
Funding Agency: Museum of Jewish Heritage
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Virtual Prototyping
PI: Julie Dickerson
Co-PIs:
Carolina Cruz-Neira
Funding Agency: Rockwell Collins Inc.
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An Evaluation of Virtual Reality as Applied to Training and Engineering Design
PI: Judy Vance
Funding Agency: ISU - Vice Provost for Research & Advanced Studies
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A Virtual Reality Environment for Spherical Mechanism Design
[Research Site]
PI: Judy Vance
Co-PIs:
Pierre M. Larochelle, J. M. McCarthy
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Acquisition of a High Performance Computing Infrastructure for Interactive Synthetic Environments
By 2010, multiple Arabidopsis data sets will detail the genome-wide accumulation of Arabidopsis mRNAs, proteins, and metabolites. These data sets will be generated from plants grown under particular environmental and developmental conditions, from different organs, tissues and cell types,...
PI: James Bernard
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Analysis, Modeling and Control of Hydraulic Power Generation and Transmission Equipment
PI: Greg Luecke
Funding Agency: Sauer-Sundstrand Company
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A Knowledge-integrated Virtual Reality Machining Laboratory for Innovative Undergraduate Education
PI: Xiaopeng Fang
Co-PIs:
Ted Kesavadas, James Oliver, Judy Vance
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Synthetic Environments as Enabling Technology for Product Development: Phase I
[Research Site]
Deere & Company, in partnership with VRAC, is developing and advancing virtual reality technology to simulate vehicle operations, evaluate human factors and ergonomics, analyze complex engineering data, and build capabilities in a broad range of other product and manufacturing process...
PI: Judy Vance
Co-PIs:
Carolina Cruz-Neira, Ted Kesavadas, Greg Luecke
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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A Leadership Laboratory for Synthetic Environments
PI: James Bernard
Funding Agency: Carver Trust
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Flexible Accounting Systems in Dynamic Manufacturing Environments
[Research Site]
PI: Timothy West
Co-PIs:
B. Flynn, Judy Vance
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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RIA: A Virtual Environment for Engineering Design (REU Supplement)
PI: Judy Vance
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Generalized Geometric Modeling for Turbomachinery Applications
PI: James Oliver
Funding Agency: NASA Lewis Research Center
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Developing a New Paradigm for Engineering Design Based on Virtual Reality
PI: Judy Vance
Funding Agency: Carver Trust
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Robotic & Magnetic Interface for Force Interactions with Virtual Reality
PI: Greg Luecke
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Robotic & Magnetic Interface for Force Interactions with Virtual Reality
PI: Greg Luecke
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Integrating Object Motion Constraints Into a Virtual Environment
PI: Judy Vance
Funding Agency: Rockwell International Corp.
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Carver Fellows in Virtual Reality
PI: James Bernard
Funding Agency: Carver Trust
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Virtual Reality Technology for Training Human Factors Analysis
PI: James Bernard
Funding Agency: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
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Tread and Mold Design Visualization
PI: James Oliver
Funding Agency: Bandag, Inc.
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Design Interface for Assessment of Human Interaction with Multi-Function Control Handles
Deere & Company, in partnership with VRAC, is developing and advancing virtual reality technology to simulate vehicle operations, evaluate human factors and ergonomics, analyze complex engineering data, and build capabilities in a broad range of other product and manufacturing process...
PI: James Oliver
Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Phase II: Analytical Review of Rollover Dynamics
PI: James Bernard
Funding Agency: American Automobile Manufacturers Assoc.
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Development and demonstration of a model vocational education program for assisting small manufacturing enterprises in adopting, implementing, operating, and managing new manufacturing technologies
PI: James Bernard
Co-PIs:
James Oliver, Greg Luecke, Judy Vance
Funding Agency: Des Moines Area Community College
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Visualization of a Product Assembly Process
PI: James Oliver
Funding Agency: 3M
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Visualization of the Effect of Design Changes on Reliability
PI: Judy Vance
Funding Agency: Ford Motor Company
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A Virtual Environment for Engineering Design Optimization
PI: Judy Vance
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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NURBS-Based Geometry for Integrated Structural Analysis
PI: James Oliver
Funding Agency: NASA Lewis Research Center
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Tire Modeling and Vehicle Data Postprocessing for the National Advanced Driving Simulator
PI: James Bernard
Funding Agency: University of Iowa/NHTSA
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Phase I: Physical Principles Associated with Rollover Mechanisms
PI: James Bernard
Funding Agency: American Automobile Manufacturers Assoc.
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Phase II: Physical Principles Associated with Rollover Mechanisms
PI: James Bernard
Funding Agency: American Automobile Manufacturers Assoc.
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Development of a Three-Dimensional Geometric Database of the Human Body
PI: Marty Vanderploeg
Funding Agency: Center for Advanced Technology Development
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A Virtual Environment for Manufacturing Systems
PI: James Oliver
Co-PIs:
L. Chen, Marty Vanderploeg
Funding Agency: US Dept. of Defense
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NYI Award - Design and Manufacturing Automation
PI: James Oliver
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Sensitivity Analyses of Tilt Table Test Procedures
PI: James Bernard
Funding Agency: Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Assoc.
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Development of Multibody Models of Washing Machines
PI: James Bernard
Funding Agency: Maytag Corporation
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Algorithms for Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline Surface Model Development
PI: James Oliver
Funding Agency: NASA Lewis Research Center
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The Automation of Egg Innoculation
PI: J. Hall
Co-PIs:
P. Molian
Funding Agency: Solvay Animal Health
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Automatic Removal of Egg Tops
PI: J. Hall
Co-PIs:
P. Molian
Funding Agency: Solvay Animal Health
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Automated Cell Culture Process
Funding Agency: Solvay Animal Health
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IAVSD Benchmark
PI: James Bernard
Funding Agency: University of Iowa/NHTSA
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Design of a High Efficiency Laundry Product
PI: James Bernard
Co-PIs:
T. Rogge, Jay Shannan
Funding Agency: Maytag Corporation
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Vertical Axis Washer Design
PI: James Bernard
Co-PIs:
T. Rogge, Jeff Trom
Funding Agency: Maytag Corporation
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Finite Element Analysis
PI: James Bernard
Funding Agency: Maytag Corporation
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Iowa Center for Emerging Manufacturing Technology
PI: James Bernard
Co-PIs:
J. Jackman, Marty Vanderploeg
Funding Agency: Carver Trust
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Metallurgical Assessment Modeling and
PI: Krishna Rajan
Funding Agency: Boeing
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