TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITIES
- Virtual and augmented reality and immersive interaction
- Data visualization
- Crowds and virtual human animation
- Geometry processing and procedural modelling
- Real-time rendering
- Creation of augmented reality applications
- Inclusion of multisensory feedback (tactile, proprioceptive, auditory) in immersive virtual environments
- High-precision recording of georeferenced virtual objects in the real world
- Optical systems for virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality
- Usability of applications and video games
- Modelling and animation in 2D and 3D with a high level of realism
- Registration and processing of physiological signals for the adaptation of visual environments to the user in real time
- Serious Games
AREAS OF APPLICATION
HEALTHCARE
- Training
- Clinical psychology
- Surgery
- Rehabilitation
- Serious games
HERITAGE BUILDINGS
- Refurbishment and restoration
- Documentation
- Heritage routes
INDUSTRY 4.0
- Design of industrial plants
- Optimization of products and processes
- Maintenance and monitoring of plants
- Training of operations and staff
- Incident management in plant and/or processes
URBAN SPACES
- Urban modelling
- Policies of urban management
- Social dynamics norms in public spaces
- Simulation of urban transformation
- Construction
- Consultancy
ARCHEOLOGICAL ELEMENTS
- Inventory
- Catalogues
- Reconstructions
DEVELOPMENT OF VIDEO GAMES AND APPS
- Leisure and entertainment
- Transmedia
- Marketing and publicity
- Gaming
EDUCACIÓN
- STEM learning improvement
- Soft skills training
EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES
- Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE)
- StereoWall
- High-speed 3D scanner with extra-long range
- Human-computer interaction laboratory (includes eye tracking)
- 225m2 audiovisual set with audiovisual equipment
- Audio recording studio
- CGI, video and colour management laboratory
- Optical tracking systems
- Virtual reality viewers and motion sensors
RELATED PROJECTS
- Ventilation in indoor spaces has become a topic of great interest recently, especially with the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Recent studies report a reduction in the incidence of respiratory infections when ventilation maintains the concentration of carbon dioxide below 1000 ppm. Proper ventilation is also required to ensure the wellbeing of lecturers and students and to enhance their cognitive abilities.
- The AI4WATER project proposes optimizing the use of available water resources, to mitigate the effects of increasing water scarcity in agriculture and to improve food safety through the creation of a digital twin (DT) in an irrigation sector of the Segarra-Garrigues region (Lleida). Participants in the project are the Specific Research Centre in Communication and Detection of the UPC (CommSensLab-UPC), the Center for Industrial Equipment Design (CDEI) and the Geophysics and Earthquake Engineering (GiES) group of the UPC.
- The Centre of Applied Research in Hydrometeorology (CRAHI) of the UPC participates in the European project RESIST. The aim of this project is to study the use of tools to improve preparation for weather emergencies and thus to increase resilience in the face of climate change.
- SOPHOS, a project with the participation of the research group Construction Materials and Roads (MATCAR) and the Environmental Engineering and Microbiology Group (GEMMA) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC), is born. In the framework of SOPHOS, a low-cost technology will be developed and validated to improve the efficiency of the use of agronomic resources, in particular water and phosphorus. This will be designed according to a circular economy model, which will reduce the impact.
