Name Virtual Manufacturing and Simulation Laboratory
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Major equipments

Hardware: PC Workstations, SGI Workstations, XEON Workstations, Single Spherical Screen, Head-Mounted Display (HMD), Motion Tracking Device, 3D Gloves.

Software: NeMo, Virtools Dev., Virtools Multi-user Pack, Virtools Physic Pack, Virtools Behavioral Server, 3D Studio Max, I-DEAS, Arena, Objecteering Professional, JBuilder Professional, PACE (Petri Net), Rational Rose, SpinFire Professional, Workspaces 5, eM-Plant, ACIS, AutoCAD.
Focus This Lab is established for exploring advanced research ideas and issues by using the concepts in Virtual Manufacturing and System Simulations. Active projects and experiments of the Lab are around the technologies of Virtual Reality, Computer Graphics, Simulation, Object-oriented System Design and Analysis, Human-Computer Interface, Agile and Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Virtual Factory, Augmented Reality, Collaborative Software Agents. It is the goal that within few years, this Lab will provide complete supports and solutions for the paradigm of an VR-based e-learning platform to the department.