Zukunftspotential durch Design und RM

Im Bereich Medical Design spielen eine hohe Funktionalität und eine angenehme Handhabung eine grosse Rolle. In den Engineering-Projekten der Erdmann Design AG werden kühne Ideen in den Raum gesetzt die das Klima für Innovationen fördern. „Innovation entsteht aus elementarer Neugier und Lust auf eine bessere Zukunft“, sagt Raimund Erdmann. „Wir beraten mit unseren Feed Forward Methoden Start-up Firmen, Kleinunternehmen wie auch etliche, börsenkotierte, international aktive Unternehmen. Und das für excellentes Industrial Design, Corporate Design und Design Management“ mit den überzeugenden Möglichkeiten des Rapid Manufacturing.Im Bereich Medical Design spielen eine hohe Funktionalität und eine angenehme Handhabung eine grosse Rolle. In den Engineering-Projekten der Erdmann Design AG werden kühne Ideen in den Raum gesetzt die das Klima für Innovationen fördern. „Innovation entsteht aus elementarer Neugier und Lust auf eine bessere Zukunft“, sagt Raimund Erdmann. „Wir beraten mit unseren Feed Forward Methoden Start-up Firmen, Kleinunternehmen wie auch etliche, börsenkotierte, international aktive Unternehmen. Und das für excellentes Industrial Design, Corporate Design und Design Management“ mit den überzeugenden Möglichkeiten des Rapid Manufacturing.

The E-learning Circle – a holistic software design tool for e-learning

The article introduces the E-learning Circle, a tool developed to assure the quality of the software design process of e-learning systems, considering pedagogical principles as well as technology. The E-learning Circle consists of a number of concentric circles which are divided into three sectors. The content of the inner circles is based on pedagogical principles, while the outer circle specifies how the pedagogical principles may be implemented with technology. The circle’s centre is dedicated to the subject taught, ensuring focus on the specific subject’s properties. The three sectors represent the student, the teacher and the learning objectives. The strengths of the E-learning Circle are the compact presentation combined with the overview it provides, as well as the usefulness of a design tool dealing with complexity, providing a common language and embedding best practice. The E-learning Circle is not a prescriptive method, but is useful in several design models and processes. The article presents two projects where the E-learning Circle was used as a design tool.

Virtual Reality as a Support Tool for Ergonomic-Style Convergence

The competitive industrial context compels companies to speed-up every new product design. In order to keep designing products that meet the needs of the end user, a human centered concurrent product design methodology has been proposed. Its setting up is complicated by the difficulties of collaboration between experts involved inthe design process. In order to ease this collaboration, we propose the use of virtual reality as an intermediate design representation in the form of light and specialized immersive convergence support applications. In this paper, we present the As Soon As Possible (ASAP) methodology making possible the development of these tools while ensuring their usefulness and usability. The relevance oft his approach is validated by an industrial use case through the design of an ergonomic-style convergence support tool.

Tracking of industrial objects by using CAD models

In this paper we present a model-based approach for real-time camera pose estimation in industrial scenarios. The line model which is used for tracking is generated by rendering a polygonal model and extracting contours out of the rendered scene. By un-projecting a point on the contour with the depth value stored in the z-buffer, the 3D coordinates of the contour can be calculated. For establishing 2D/3D correspondences the 3D control points on the contour are projected into the image and a perpendicular search for gradient maxima for every point on the contour is performed. Multiple hypotheses of 2D image points corresponding to a 3D control point make the pose estimation robust against ambiguous edges in the image.