CCCA'12

Keynote :
Virtual Assembly: Challenges and opportunities.

Speaker :
Samir Garbaya. ENSAM Arts et Métiers ParisTech (France)

Abstract :
The keynote focuses on virtual assembly and the main challenges facing the development of applications that meet the expectation of end users, in terms of the realism of interaction, the ease of manipulation and the improvement of task performance. The main aspects that will be discussed concern the physical behavior of virtual parts during their manipulation by the operator during the execution of the assembly task. The research work that will be presented in this talk will focuses on modeling the Physically-based behavior of mechanical parts and subassemblies during the execution of virtual assembly operation. The concept of spring-damper model and its implementation to generate the concept of “visual dynamics” will be presented. The future developments necessary for the creation of realistic virtual assembly operation and planning will be also discussed.

Biography :

Samir Garbaya | Doctor Samir Garbaya is a senior scientist at the ENSAM – ParisTech (France). He is the author of many publications in virtual reality focusing on multimodal interaction, human presence in virtual environment, the transfer of knowledge form virtual environment to real world. He designed and implemented an original concept of virtual force sensation, which has been used in industrial and medical applications both nationally and internationally. He has been a member of various conference organizing committees, and created the world conference on innovative virtual reality (WinVR) in 2009. Samir is a founding member of the French virtual reality society (AFRV) and he has also served as an expert on many international committees and institutions, including the European commission to evaluate research programmes and to define the research directions in the domain of emerging technologies. He received his education in Tunisia and in England, where he studied computer science and new information and communication technologies. His holds a PhD in interactive computer graphics and virtual reality. Dr. Garbaya can be reached via email at samir.garbaya@gmail.com.