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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Virtual Prototyping"”.
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Wide Bandwidth Control Electronics For Gan-Based Pebbs
<p>Virtual prototyping is the act of configuring and using a software-based model of a product, system, or components to explore, test, demonstrate and validate its design and design alternatives. Virtual prototyping is increasingly used to develop and test new products. It minimizes the failure …
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Exploring Prototyping Tools for Interactive Fashion Design
… this thesis, I explore the use of computer-aided prototyping tools to develop interactive eFashion garments. I present case studies with makers and two experienced eFashion designers about their design practices and formulate design guidelines for prototyping tools. I then present two prototyping …
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Characterizing Virtual Prototype Constructability Programming for the Pictographic Instruction of Procedure
… of building information modeling, including virtual prototyping, factory-based component procurement and industrialized site production are only a few of the forces that threaten to engulf the established façades of architecture, engineering and construction practice. Those professional …
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Development of Ultrasonic Devices for Microparticle and Cell Manipulation
… devices have been investigated and predicted in virtual prototyping with computer simulations, and verified experimentally. Issues associated during the development are highlighted and discussed. To assist long term practical adoption, approaches to low-cost, wafer level batch-production and …
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Design of a novel rotary compact power pack for the series hybrid electric vehicle. Design and simulation of a compact power pack consisting of a novel rotary engine and outer rotor induction machine for the series hybrid electric vehicle powertrain.
… power pack for a series hybrid vehicle, using virtual prototyping. The hybrid electric vehicle characteristics and configurations are analysed, followed by an explanation of the principles of induction machines. A new type of rotary induction machine with an outer rotor construction is designed …
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Systematic functional and object-oriented product design frameworks
… integrated design frameworks and one virtual prototyping application, which leverages on these three design frameworks, have been developed for co-design of mechatronic products. The three frameworks are: I) Hierarchical Object-Oriented Functional Modeling Framework, 2) Axiomatic …
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Development of a Computationally Efficient Binaural Simulation for the Analysis of Structural Acoustic Data
… acoustic data would open new opportunities in virtual prototyping and simulation. By modeling the structure as an array of vibrating monopoles and applying Head Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) to each of the sources, a binaural simulation of this type can be created. Unfortunately, this …
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Surrogate optimization with algebraic notes and applications within the electromagnetics context
… the scientific thicket of full automation of the virtual prototyping of power electronic systems. From the frog’s-eye view, i.e., at a more technical level, some of the present work’s achievements deal with hybrid model management strategies of surrogate-guided optimization methods, the …
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Thermo-Economic Modelling of Micro-Cogeneration Systems System Design for Sustainable Power Decentralization by Multi-Physics System Modelling and Micro-Cogeneration Systems Performance Analysis for the UK Domestic Housing Sector
… study of this technology. This thesis develops a virtual prototyping environment, using a dynamic multi-physics simulation tool. The model based procedure in its current form focuses on ICE based micro-CHP systems. In the process of developing the models, new approaches on general system, engine, …
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Reduced-order modeling of power electronics components and systems
… could form the computational core of future virtual prototyping design and analysis environments for energy processing units.
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Issues involved in Real-Time Rendering of Virtual Environments
… the issues involved in modeling and rendering virtual environments with special emphasis on photo-realistic visualization and optimizing models for real-time applications. Architectural walk-through systems are expected to give convincingly realistic interactive visualizations of complex …
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Model and Characterization of a Passive Biomimetic Ankle for Lower Extremity Powered Exoskeleton
… reduce crutch loads and thus extend LEPE use. Virtual prototyping techniques were used to achieve this objective. Two 3D models of a real LEPE (ARKE, Bionik Laboratories) attached to a human musculoskeletal model were developed and validated. The first model (biomimetic model) was driven by 3D …
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Optimisation modelling for microelectronics packaging and product design
… research is to develop a design framework for virtual prototyping of electronic packaging. This framework couples computational mechanics and fluid dynamics, based on finite volume method with integrated finite element routines, with numerical optimisation and statistical methods. This …
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System level simulation of digital designs : a case study
… as Rapid Application Specific Signal-processor Prototyping (RASSP). The purpose of this program was to review the process used in creating embedded digital signal processors in an attempt to decrease the time taken to produce a prototype by a factor of four. The methods proposed by RASSP for …
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Design of spatial interfaces for engineering assembly within a virtual environment for automotive design
… realistic assembly model within a fully working virtual environment (VE). The results show that the two-handed spatial interface has the potential to reduce task-performance times by more than 25%, over an existing one-handed spatial interface. The VE is the IVPS (Interactive Virtual Prototyping …
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Ultrasonic agitation for surface plasmon resonance biosensors
… presented here.<br/><br/>Finally, the design and prototyping of ultrasonic devices that are easily integrable into biosensors is included. Ultrasonic transducers were created with resonance frequencies around 2 MHz so to encourage acoustic streaming events in the biosensing cells. The acoustic …
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Vehicle Dynamic Model for Real-Time Applications and Training of Artificial Drivers
… simulations making it a powerful tool for virtual prototyping, performance evaluation, and controller development in the automotive domain. Practical applications in the field of autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems showcase the applicability of the proposed framework …
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Ductile fracture at intermediate stress triaxialities : experimental investigations and micro-mechanical modeling
… sheet metal structures. With the development of virtual prototyping practices, most transportation vehicles are now computer-engineered in great detail before launching their mass production, thereby requiring reliable models for plasticity and fracture. This thesis reports on a comprehensive …
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Simulation and optimisation of the Interior High Pressure (IHP) manufacturing process using the Finite Element Method (FEA)
… techniques can help to achieve this goal. Prototyping tools for the Interior High Pressure (IHP) forming technique are relatively expensive in comparison to conventional sheet metal forming. Prototyping using the trial and error approach (“Real Prototyping”) is time consuming, and hence …
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On in-situ methodologies for the characterisation and simulation of vibro-acoustic assemblies
… of new products. Consequently, alternative prototyping methods are of interest. With their ability to reduce cost, accelerate time to market, and optimize products to higher levels of performance and reliability, virtual methods offer an attractive alternative. Methods for virtual …
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