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 Topic: Realtime TechnologiesThe new items published under this topic are as follows.
Royal Oak, Michigan –July, 2010 -- Realtime Technologies (RTI), a part of Arotech Corporation’s (NasdaqGM: ARTX) Training and Simulation Division, announced today that it has been selected to provide to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Engineering an advanced motion based vehicle simulator. RTI is very excited to be working closely with Dr. John D. Lee and Dr. David A. Noyce along with others on their team involved with various driver behavior research. Dr. Lee's focuses and expertise include driver distraction, driver support systems and collision warnings, trust in automation, human factors engineering.
Dr. Noyce’s focus areas and research centers in traffic operations, traffic signals and signs, transportation safety, vehicle crash analysis, driver behavior, and a growing research area for him is bicyclists and pedestrians. This simulator will enable researchers and the University of Wisconsin to develop and evaluate emerging vehicle and roadway technology that will transform the driving experience in the next decade.
Royal Oak, Michigan –July, 2010 -- Realtime Technologies (RTI), a part of Arotech Corporation’s (NasdaqGM: ARTX) Training and Simulation Division, announced today that it has been selected to provide Oregon State University’s College of Engineering with an advanced motion based vehicle simulator. The University’s plans in the beginning are to use the driving simulator in a variety of research projects.
Transportation research at OSU primarily focuses on planning, operations, geometric design, and transportation safety with an emphasis on integrating all users into the transportation infrastructure. The key researchers in these areas at OSU are Professors Katharine Hunter-Zaworski, Karen Dixon, and David Hurwitz; however, they are complimented by researchers in human factors and similar associated specialties.
Royal Oak, Michigan –April, 2010 -- RealTime Technologies (RTI), a part of Arotech Corporation’s (NasdaqGM: ARTX) Training and Simulation Division, recently delivered a single seat open cockpit vehicle simulator to The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Royal Oak, Michigan –April, 2010 -- Realtime Technologies (RTI), a part of Arotech Corporation’s (NasdaqGM: ARTX) Training and Simulation Division, announced today that it has been selected to provide critical upgrades for the existing University of Minnesota’s HumanFIRST (Human Factors Interdisciplinary Research in Simulation and Transportation) driving simulator.
Realtime Technologies, Inc. (RTI) is a leader in the real-time simulation industry. For several years RTI has been delivering visualization systems, driving simulators, vehicle dynamics, audio subsystems, motion drive algorithms, and control loading feedback solutions to the commercial simulation and gaming community. Visit us on the web at www.simcreator.com.
We are currently developing state-of-the-art driving simulators, scenario authoring components and visual systems for the automotive and military industries and are seeking a Support and Testing Engineer to support these efforts.
Royal Oak, Michigan –November, 2008 -- RealTime Technologies, Inc (RTI), a part of Arotech Corporation’s (NasdaqGM: ARTX) Training and Simulation Division, announced today that it has been selected to provide a critical upgrade for the existing University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) driving simulator. The College of Engineering and Transportation Center at the University have used a vehicle simulator for over 12 years for their human factors research and decided earlier this year it was time for some significant upgrades. Dr. Donald L. Fisher is the director of the Human Performance Laboratory and a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.
In the process of upgrading the UMass Amherst simulator RTI will take advantage the existing Saturn sedan cab, projectors, and screens that make up the 180 degree forward field of view, but will completely upgrade the control loaded steering and brake and acceleration features. All underlying software on the simulator will be completely upgraded as well. This upgrade will allow UMASS researchers more flexibility in their studies with the introduction of RTI’s very powerful “SimCreator” and “SimVista” core vehicle simulation and scenario development software tools.
Royal Oak, Michigan – September 15, 2008 -- RealTime Technologies, Inc (RTI), a part of Arotech Corporation’s (NasdaqGM: ARTX) Training and Simulation Division, announced today the sale of a new driving simulator to The Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS) at Mississippi State University.
The simulator is the newest addition to the Human Factors and Ergonomics research group at CAVS and extends its capability by adding a new level of fidelity to its simulation research. CAVS is an interdisciplinary center, providing engineering, research, development, and extension teams focused on complex problems, such as those encountered in technologies designed to improve human mobility.
This new simulator integrates a Nissan Maxima body, donated by Nissan Corporation, mounted on a Moog six-degree-of-freedom motion base and surrounded by large projection screens. The result is an immersive experience for the vehicle operator with a realistic look, feel, and sound. CAVS will use the simulator for a variety of research including driver performance, in-vehicle information display systems, training and other projects.
Royal Oak, MI – Realtime Technologies, Inc., (RTI) announced today that it has been awarded a contract to provide Daimler AG a Traffic and Experimental Control (TEC) Software package for their next generation driving simulator.
The new driving simulator will be located at the Mercedes-Benz Technology Center (MTC) in Sindelfingen, Germany, to further extent and intensify the simulator’s use within the car development process of passenger cars and commercial vehicles. Planned main improvements of the new facility are increased motion dynamics, needed for realistic drive dynamic assessments of digital prototype cars, as well as new traffic simulation software to reproduce complex interactions such as inner-city scenarios in a lifelike fashion to develop and evaluate future driver assistance systems.
January, 2008 - Royal Oak, MI – Realtime Technologies, Inc., (RTI) announced today that it has been awarded a contract to provide Montana State University’s Western Transportation Institute with a high-fidelity 6-DOF motion based vehicle simulator. Founded in 1994 by the Montana and California Departments of Transportation, in cooperation with Montana State University, the Western Transportation Institute (WTI) has grown from a small, university research office into a nationally recognized center of excellence in transportation research and education. WTI employs a professional staff of over 60 engineers and scientists and conducts research for sponsors in 35 states and 5 countries.
Realtime Technologies, Inc. Awarded Contract by Montana State University’s Western Transportation Institute to Provide High Fidelity Motion Based Vehicle Simulator
Date: January, 2008Royal Oak, MI – Realtime Technologies, Inc., (RTI) announced today that it has been awarded a contract to provide Montana State University’s Western Transportation Institute with a high-fidelity 6-DOF motion based vehicle simulator. Founded in 1994 by the Montana and California Departments of Transportation, in cooperation with Montana State University, the Western Transportation Institute (WTI) has grown from a small, university research office into a nationally recognized center of excellence in transportation research and education. WTI employs a professional staff of over 60 engineers and scientists and conducts research for sponsors in 35 states and 5 countries.
Job Description
Realtime Technologies, Inc. (RTI) is a leader in the real-time simulation industry. For several years RTI has been delivering visualization systems, driving simulators, vehicle dynamics, audio subsystems, motion drive algorithms, and control loading feedback solutions to the commercial simulation and gaming community. Visit us on the web at www.simcreator.com.
 Realtime Technologies, Inc. To Provide Michigan Based Visteon Corporation with Vehicle Simulator for Advanced Vehicle Design Research
Royal Oak, MI – Realtime Technologies, Inc., (RTI) announced today that it has been awarded a contract to provide Visteon Corporation with a high-fidelity vehicle simulator for use in human factors research and vehicle design. Visteon Corporation is a leading global automotive supplier that designs, engineers and manufactures innovative climate, interior, electronic and lighting products for vehicle manufacturers.
RTI’s SimCreator provides the core software of the vehicle simulator. SimCreator is a graphical, hierarchical, real-time simulation and modeling system. It includes high-fidelity vehicle dynamic models that are reconfigurable to represent different vehicles as needed. SimVista, another RTI software package, is also included. SimVista is a tile-based scene and scenario authoring system.
Royal Oak, MI – Realtime Technologies, Inc., (RTI), AAI Corporation, Battelle Incorporated and MetaVR Incorporated have teamed to create a demonstration for I/ITSEC 2007 in (RTI booth # 3827, AAI booth # 3517and MetaVR booth #1901) that shows a simulated military vehicle operating in a virtual 3D environment, in a scenario for use in training military personnel on correct vehicle handling techniques. The scenario demonstrates their combined technologies to realistically model the appearance and behavior of the military’s mine resistant-ambush protected (MRAP) vehicles so that the 3D entity closely matches the characteristics of the real-life vehicle. The demonstration contains a scenario of MetaVR’s Buffalo model (shown in the image below), a military route clearance vehicle with a sophisticated robotic articulated arm. In the virtual environment, the driver must be able to operate the simulated vehicle just as one would in the real-world. The simulated Buffalo has been accurately modeled to depict its IED detection and disposal behavior for maximum training benefit. The ability to transfer knowledge from training in the virtual environment to performing the same tasks in the real world is critical to any successful simulation training tool.
Realtime Technologies (RTI) announced today the availability of an updated version of their 3D model viewer plugin for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. It’s the latest example of Realtime Technologies’ leadership in bringing powerful design and rendering tools to simulation engineers around the world.
RTI’s cross-platform plugin employs a high-performance rendering engine to display MultiGen-Paradigm OpenFlight 3D models in a Firefox browser window. Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) 2.0 and X3D models can also be rendered. The high-performance scene graph allows RTI’s plugin to render larger models than other existing plugins. Furthermore, loading OpenFlight databases is a feature other similar plugins do not offer.
The plugin also supports frame-accurate MPEG-1 video capture of the model being viewed. The resulting video can be observed in any standard movie viewer and does not require a proprietary viewer. MPEG movie capture facilitates sharing visualizations without having to share the model itself. Therefore, if a model is very large, proprietary, or otherwise not easily shared, it may be more widely distributed as an MPEG movie. Existing plugins do not support OpenFlight or MPEG video capture.
(Ed: Download plug-in here.)
Royal Oak, MI - Realtime Technologies, Inc., (RTI) announced today that it has hired Mr. Larry Cathey as a Senior Project Manager, supporting simulator contracts and product development.
Mr. Cathey's immediate responsibilities at Realtime Technologies include teaming with the leading edge expertise at RTI to bring state of the art solutions to customer wanting either new driving simulators or to upgrade existing simulator hardware. Mr. Cathey brings to RTI experience in using driving simulators in a research and development environment.
ROYAL OAK, MI - Realtime Technologies, Inc. (RTI) is pleased to announce the opening of its new location at 1523 North Main Street in downtown Royal Oak.
RTI specializes in real time multibody vehicle dynamics, graphical simulation and modeling, and vehicle simulators. RTI's strength has historically been simulation and modeling software. However, a significant increase in demand for RTI simulators prompted the move to a facility that offers a suitable environment for developing, constructing and testing simulators and simulation hardware.
Royal Oak, MI – Realtime Technologies, Inc., (RTI) announced today that it has garnered a contract with Discovery World of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to provide the organization with a high-fidelity vehicle simulator. RTI was chosen because it can integrate existing Discovery World hardware with state-of-the-art simulation software. The simulator will be included as one of several interactive technology experiences at Discovery World’s facility.
Discovery World offers a variety of educational, cultural and environmental programs for visitors of all ages. Among the existing science-related experiences is a Rotational Motion Lab in which participants learn about the use of gears, gear rotations and gear ratios. Lab participants build a simple drive train to propel a model vehicle. Realtime Technologies will be providing Discovery World with the virtual embodiment of these concepts by means of simulation software.
 How in control are you when answering your cell phone or checking your GPS device while driving? How much information can a person safely process on the road, and how much does the design of something influence how quickly you can use it?
Mason's Psychology Department recently obtained a vehicle simulator that will help to answer some of those research questions and more. Designed specifically for Mason research by Realtime Technologies Inc., the simulator will be used by the department's Arch Lab for a broad range of driver cognition and human factors research by faculty and students.
 Royal Oak, MI- Realtime Technologies Inc. (RTI) announced today the availability of SimSurface, RTI's latest toolset for enhancing the realism of simulated terrain models.
SimSurface consists of three Multigen Creator-compatible plug-ins, each of which outputs a high-fidelity surface and a bump map texture. These textures are mapped to OpenFlight polygons, adding high-frequency detail such as a gravel road to an otherwise flat model. Adding such details improves the realism of simulated scenes.
 ROYAL OAK, MI - Realtime Technologies Inc., (RTI) announced today its plan to exhibit at the Society of Automotive Engineers International (SAE) World Congress April 16-19, in Detroit, Mich., at the Cobo Center. RTI will exhibit in booth #2112.
RTI's exhibit will showcase the company's 2007 release of SimVehicle LT Version 2.2. SimVehicle LT is the most recent version of RTI's General Vehicle Dynamics System product. SimVehicle LT is a multibody real time vehicle dynamics modeling package. The new version includes improvements in the vehicle model and a new graphical interface for entering vehicle data.
Realtime Technologies (RTI) announced today the availability of a beta version of their cross-platform 3D model viewer plugin for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. It's the latest example of Realtime Technologies' leadership in bringing powerful design and rendering tools to simulation engineers around the world.
RTI's cross-platform plugin employs a high-performance rendering engine to display Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) 2.0, and X3D models in a Firefox browser window. MultiGen-Paradigm OpenFlight 3D models can also be rendered. The high-performance scene graph allows RTI's plugin to render larger models than other existing plugins. Furthermore, loading OpenFlight databases is a feature other similar plugins do not offer.
Realtime Technologies, Inc. (RTI) announced today the sale of their SimVista™ and SimLights™ products to Ford Motor Company for its Virtual Test Track Experiment (VIRTTEX) system.
The VIRTTEX system is a full-motion based driving simulator with a 360° field of view. An instrument of Ford’s driving simulation group, VIRTTEX provides researchers with a safe and controlled environment for testing product features and driver behaviors. SimVista’s role in the process is to reduce the time it takes to create realistic driving scenarios and to improve experimental data collection. SimLights, in turn, will improve the realism of simulated scenes.
Realtime Royal Oak, MI – Realtime Technologies Inc., (RTI) announced today plans to integrate Seeing Machines’ faceLAB™ 4.0 eye tracking software with its own SimCreator® and SimVista™ software packages, improving SimCreator’s and SimVista’s ability to accurately monitor, record, and simulate driver behavior.
RTI announced today that it has been awarded a contract to provide a high-fidelity vehicle simulator to George Mason University’s (GMU) Psychology Department for research into a broad range of driver cognition and human factors issues.
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(Images courtesy of Realtime Technologies, Inc.)
SimLights is a light map generation plug-in for Multigen Creator v 3.0 or better.
SimLights will pre-render your database, generating a series of light maps that correspond to the lighting contributions from all static light sources in the scene. Light source colors, attributes, and visibility are combined with surface materials and normals using OpenGL’s standard diffuse and ambient lighting equations. This produces a light map containing lighting and shadowing effects for each surface.
Royal Oak, MI – Realtime Technologies Inc., (RTI) announced today the release of SimVista version 1.0, a flexible tile-based simulation scene and scenario authoring system designed for ground vehicle simulators. SimVista represents the latest in driving simulation design, allowing users to create and control simulation scene, scenario and object interaction with a modern user interface capability.
ROYAL OAK, MI - Realtime Technologies Inc., (RTI) announced today its plan to exhibit at the Society of Automotive Engineers International (SAE) World Congress April 3-6, in Detroit, Mich., at the Cobo Center.
RTI's exhibit will showcase the company's 2005 release of SimVehicle. SimVehicle is the most recent version of RTI's General Vehicle Dynamics System product. SimVehicle is a multibody real time vehicle dynamics modeling package. The new version includes improvements in the vehicle model and a new graphical interface for entering vehicle data.
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Royal Oak, MI – Realtime Technologies, Inc., (RTI) announced today the availability of SimForce, a high-fidelity force feedback steering system.
Product Info Sheet(PDF)
Royal Oak, MI – Realtime Technologies, Inc., (RTI) announced Dec 26, 2005, that it has hired Dale A. Holtz, Ph.D., as a Senior Development Engineer, supporting real time simulation and vehicle dynamics research and development.
Royal Oak, MI - Realtime Technologies, Inc. (RTI) announced today that it has hired Clayne Woodbury as a National Sales Manager, focusing on business development, partnership development and sales activities.
Ed.-This is our second recruitment news this week. Clayne Woodbury is an ex-GE Capital I-Sim National Sales Manager.
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