The Digital Humans Laboratory was a pre-cursor to the Virtual Soldier Research (VSR) Program.  Research concerned with human modeling and simulation is now conducted within the VSR program.   Web pages here are considered obsolete but are kept for historical reasons.


Human modeling, biomechanics, and simulation. 
Our basic and applied research is aimed at obtaining a better understanding of human motion, task analysis, leading to a more realistic and far more intelligent digital humans that can help us evaluate products.

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Virtual Reality and Visualization
Virtual reality and digital prototyping have been conducted by the DH-Lab for many years, serving industry partners while pushing the envelope.

SantosTM

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SantosTM A complete human modeling and simulation environment.  Santos allows complete interaction with the human model within a CAD environment. Santos performs human factors, including vision, human performance measures, collision detection, kinematics and dynamics.

 

 

 

 

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Visit the Virtual Soldier Research Program

The DH Lab conducts basic and applied research in kinematics, dynamics, biomechanics, and visualization of human motion in support of the Virtual Soldier Research Program.  Our objective is to create human models that look, act, and respond as humans would. 

Why?  While all industries are moving towards digital prototyping, the need to make a physical prototype will no longer be necessary.  Rather, only a digital mockup will be made.  If this becomes a reality (and we believe it already has), there will be a significant need to send our human models into digital mockups, to test, perform, reach, evaluate, and report back.  

The DH Lab has developed and demonstrated unique technologies for 3D visualization...visit our Visualization Laboratory.