The goal of this project is to design and implement an AR mobile app for students taking AUTO 514 at University of Michigan to visualize their Finite Element Analysis and Simulation result in the form of Mixed Reality. They can align the digital model with a physical chair using a QR code, so that they can get an intuitive understanding on what happened to the driver when car crush happens.
Finite Element Simulation result data in .k files are read in using C#, and subsequently construct the geometries for human and car seat models based on this data. Animations are built for these models in Unity. QR marker for model anchoring is tracked by Vuforia Engine, and the model's position is the space is calculated based on the tracking result.
This project is supervised by Prof. Jingwen Hu and Dr. Byoung-Keon (Daniel) Park, funded by The University of Michigan Integrative Systems + Design Program.