CAREER: Interactive Process Visualization in Virtual and Augmented Reality for Innovative Learning, Analysis, and Design of Field Construction Operations

职业：虚拟和增强现实中的交互式过程可视化，用于现场施工作业的创新学习、分析和设计

• 批准号: 0448762
• 负责人: Vineet Kamat
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-06-01 至 2011-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0448762&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Interactive; Process; Visualization; Virtual

CAREER: Interactive Process Visualization in Virtual and Augmented Reality for Innovative Learning, Analysis, and Design of Field Construction Operations The objective of this project is to bring powerful operations visualization capabilities within the reach, ability, and training of all construction practitioners, researchers, educators, and students. The project in-volves basic research, design of appropriate tools, and development of educational materials to enable accurate 3D animation of construction operations in immersive Virtual Reality (VR) and outdoor Aug-mented Reality (AR) environments. The research addresses fundamental limitations in knowledge, and includes the investigation of automated methods to describe dynamic evolving terrain, techniques to de-fine accurate resource motion paths, methods to portray accurate physical behavior of articulated re-sources, and approaches to animate fluid construction materials. The research also explores methods to accurately overlay (augment) graphical images of operations over real jobsites, techniques for intuitive and safe user-computer interaction in AR, and approaches to make operations animation in AR highly adaptable and mobile. The educational objectives are intricately related to and dependent on the research, and include the design of VR-based educational modules, workshops for educators and researchers, cur-riculum development and improvement, AR-based teaching material for K-12 students, strategies to re-cruit and retain the brightest women and minority engineers, and efforts to develop the PI's personal skills as a teacher and educator. This project aims to significantly improve the verification, validation, and communication of discrete-event simulation models, thus facilitating their use in operations planning and decision-making. Performance of field operations is also expected to improve by allowing proper com-munication of planned work prior to execution. In addition to communicating what may happen in the future (from simulation), it will be possible to re-create what happened in the past (from records), and what is currently happening (from real-time data).This project aims to enable improved planning, analysis, and design of field construction operations. This can result in substantial cost and time savings, improvement in industry competitiveness, and reduction in life cycle costs of civil infrastructure and other constructed facilities. The cumulative impact across the $899 billion U.S. construction industry is expected to be significant. Such benefits also accrue in fields such as manufacturing, transportation, mining, and ship-building where operations visualization is as vital as in construction. The project is expected to significantly impact education by fostering innova-tion in curriculum at construction schools, and spawning an area of specialization in Construction Engi-neering and Management. The tools and educational materials resulting from the project are expected to enhance the construction curriculum, and are being made publicly available to educators at other institu-tions. The project's contributions to knowledge impact future research by allowing researchers to spend major efforts on studying and addressing operations, safety, and educational issues, and less effort on cre-ating animations. Several Graduate and Undergraduate students are also involved in the project. The PI has been proactively working to recruit and retain women and minority engineers in the project by work-ing with the Society of Women Engineers, the Minority Engineering Program Office, and the Under-graduate Research Office Program at the University of Michigan. In summary, the societal benefits of the project are: 1) the reductions in construction life-cycle costs that can be possible through proper planning and design of construction operations; 2) the effective education and training of future construction engi-neers; and 3) the career development of the personnel participating in the project.

职业：虚拟和增强现实中的交互式过程可视化，用于现场施工作业的创新学习、分析和设计该项目的目标是为所有施工从业人员、研究人员、教育工作者提供强大的操作可视化能力、能力和培训和学生。该项目涉及基础研究、适当工具的设计以及教育材料的开发，以便在沉浸式虚拟现实 (VR) 和户外增强现实 (AR) 环境中实现施工操作的精确 3D 动画。该研究解决了知识的基本局限性，包括研究描述动态演变地形的自动化方法、定义精确资源运动路径的技术、描绘铰接资源的精确物理行为的方法以及动画流体建筑材料的方法。该研究还探索了在真实作业现场准确叠加（增强）操作图形图像的方法、AR 中直观且安全的用户计算机交互技术，以及使 AR 中的操作动画具有高度适应性和移动性的方法。教育目标与研究密切相关并依赖于研究，包括基于 VR 的教育模块的设计、教育工作者和研究人员的研讨会、课程开发和改进、针对 K-12 学生的基于 AR 的教材、招聘和留住最聪明的女性和少数族裔工程师，并努力发展 PI 作为教师和教育者的个人技能。该项目旨在显着改进离散事件仿真模型的验证、确认和通信，从而促进其在运营规划和决策中的使用。通过在执行前对计划工作进行适当沟通，现场作业的绩效也有望得到改善。除了传达未来可能发生的情况（通过模拟）之外，还可以重新创建过去发生的情况（通过记录）和当前正在发生的情况（通过实时数据）。该项目旨在改进现场施工作业的规划、分析和设计。这可以节省大量成本和时间，提高行业竞争力，并降低民用基础设施和其他建筑设施的生命周期成本。预计对价值 8,990 亿美元的美国建筑业的累积影响将是巨大的。这些好处也适用于制造、运输、采矿和造船等领域，在这些领域，运营可视化与建筑业一样重要。该项目预计将通过促进建筑学校课程创新并催生建筑工程和管理专业领域，对教育产生重大影响。该项目产生的工具和教育材料预计将增强建筑课程，并正在向其他机构的教育工作者公开提供。该项目对知识的贡献影响了未来的研究，使研究人员能够将主要精力花在研究和解决操作、安全和教育问题上，而不是花在创建动画上。一些研究生和本科生也参与了该项目。 PI 一直在与女工程师协会、少数族裔工程项目办公室和密歇根大学本科生研究办公室项目合作，积极致力于在该项目中招募和留住女性和少数族裔工程师。总之，该项目的社会效益是： 1) 通过正确规划和设计施工作业，可以降低施工生命周期成本； 2）对未来建筑工程师的有效教育和培训； 3）参与项目人员的职业发展。