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VR4Robots Brings ROVs in 3D Worlds to Computer Desktop
01 May 2005
Oxford Technologies has launched a low cost virtual reality software to allow subsea and underwater industry engineers to interact with 3D worlds on the desktop.
VR4Robots provides a high performance, cost effective way to visualise and animate robotic devices on a PC. The software has been developed for use in exploration with ROVs and, when connected to underwater manipulators, for repair and construction of oil rigs, underwater pipelines and cable systems.
Using VR4Robots, engineers can create detailed solutions for remote handling by visualising and manipulating a virtual robot on their desktops. The software can also be connected to an existing robot controller for even greater versatility.
As well as being cost effective, VR4Robots is user friendly.
The robot is manipulated by controlling the gripper motion from a haptic device, mouse or joystick. Users can fly through and view the virtual world with or without movement constraints. They can grasp and place any virtual object, limiting the robot motion with user defined constraints.
VR4Robots also enables multiple user collaborations of robots in a common virtual world via a LAN connection.
Other features include activity and component tracking and recording, robot motion recording and a generic robot model library to construct your own robot.
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