International Newsletter vol.35 2010/8
8.2.2010
FORUM8 Co., Ltd.
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--------New product Introduction and marketing news--------
-UC-win/Road ver.5.0 Point Cloud Data Modeling
-UC-win/Road Ver.5.0 Safety Driving Simulator / Safety Driving educational material

-------Conferences, training and seminars
-Upcoming conference FORUM 8 is participating
-Seminar schedule in Shanghai, Beijing and Seoul is announced below

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 New product introduction and marketing news

In this issue, we introduce new product and system which are being featured in the latest Up & Coming web magazine.
UC-win/Road ver.5.0 Point Cloud Data Modeling
Preface
  • We introduce the newest features of UC-win/Road Ver .5, Point Cloud Data Plug-in option. On this page, the following functions are explained: the point cloud data editor; road centerline extraction; road alignment and cross section generation and road editor; road section extraction; and road section creation and road section editor.

Point cloud data editor
  • Point Cloud Data Plug-in's basic functions are to display 3D point cloud data in UC-win/Road VR space and depict the point cloud data at the designated position correctly. This plug-in can also extract data, import additional data and adjust the display position by moving the points sideways or by rotating them in VR space. In addition, this plug-in can also generate TIN data (ground and seabed data) based on the point cloud data, and overlay textures and import color from aerial photographs onto the point clouds.
    This plug-in is also able to export terrain data produced using point clouds in LandXML format to be used in other software systems.
    As a post-processing function, this plug-in can extract road alignment data and cross section data and use them in UC-win/Road to model roads almost automatically.


    Maximum number of point cloud data
    • 32bit OS(Windows XP) : less than 16 million points
    • 64bit OS(Windows Vista, Windows 7) : more than 25 million points

    Main edit functions
    • Point cloud display
    • TIN terrain data generation
    • Extraction of road alignment and cross section information

Extracting center lines
  • Road center lines can be extracted using automatic search and manual assignment. Automatic search utilizes the measurement feature of the mobile scanning device (e.g. MMS: Mobile Mapping System) whereas manual assignment generates continuous linear regression arbitrarily as the user selects point clouds manually.

Editing road alignment
  • The X (east-west) and Z (north-south) alignment data of the extracted center line point clouds is linked to the road alignment editor in UC-win/Road for road creation and editing.

    Aerial view (point sequence) Aerial view (road alignment)

Road cross section editor
  • The L (length) and Y (elevation) information is linked to the road cross section editor in UC-win/Road to edit the vertical alignment of the road.

    Cross section (point sequence) Cross section (alignment)

Extraction of road section point cloud data
  • Road section information is extracted by automatically extracting point cloud data from inside a large rectangular frame and generating point sequences of the road section.

    Point sequence and the point cloud of the road section Point sequence of the road section

Road section editor
  • Point sequence of the road section is linked to the road section editor in UC-win/Road to create and edit the road section.

    Point sequence and the road section Road section in 3D

Road modeling
  • Based on the road alignment data and the road section data that were generated above, road modeling in UC-win/Road can now be carried out.
    Point cloud data only Road model
UC-win/Road Ver.5.0 point cloud data planned release date: August 2010
UC-win/Road Ver.5.0 Safety Driving Simulator / Safety Driving educational material

Preface
This simulator is a driving simulator for driving schools, which is compatible to the model certification standard of driving simulator by Japan Traffic Management Technology Association.
Users can experience a real-car-like simulation by the simulator which can reproduce hazardous events at the time of driving, wide view point realized by the 42 inch 3CH monitor and the mounted steering system of real car parts. After the drive experience, various kinds of diagnosis is available accrding to the driving materials. Diagnosis is carried out using the data collected during the above driving lessons. Data from all the participants can be collected for calculation of aggregates and statistics. We are now actively trying to clear the model certification standard.

Safety Driving Educational Material
  • 6 kinds educational materials compatible to the model certification standard and 2 optional education materials.

Standard scenario compatible to model certification standard

  1. Lesson on Hazard Perception
    Hazardous events on the road are simulated on the driving simulator and users can experience the events. Users can experience 13 hazardous events including collision with a pedestrian, turning against traffic and pedestrian rushing out from between parked cars while driving on the 5.5 km road.

    Collision with a pedestrian Turning against traffic Pedestrian rushing out from between parked cars

  2. Lesson on night-time driving
    To acquire the knowledge and the skills for night-time driving, users can experience driving on a 5.5 km city road with 9 hazards

    Overtaking a bicycle Lane restriction due to construction

  3. Lesson on sudden braking
    Users can experience 1.5km mountain road and braking distance on dry surface, wet surface and frozen surface based on certification standard.
    Driving speed on wet surface
    and the braking distance
    100km -> 0km (kph) 57.2m
    80km -> 0km (kph) 37.1m
    60km -> 0km (kph) 20.9m
    40km -> 0km (kph) 9.5m
    20km -> 0km (kph) 2.3m
    Collision with a preceding vehicle

  4. Lesson on driving on the highway
    Users can acquire the knowledge and the skills about driving on highways by experiencing driving on a 20 km highway with more than 8 hazards including collision with the tollgate and merging Traffic

    Collision with the tollgate Merging Traffic

  5. Lesson on location-specific conditions
    Users can drive along 8 km mountain road to learn about location-specific conditions including different climate and geographical features including speeding at a corner and collision with the car ahead.

    Speeding at a corner Collision with the car ahead

  6. Lesson on driving in bad condition
    Users can experience the driving knowledge and skill by driving 5.2 km length road featuring 5 sections with bad driving conditions such as fog, rain and snow.

    Blizzard condition Dense fog

Optional Scenarios

  1. Lesson on identifying violations
    Examines the responses to cyclists rushing out, pedestrians and stopping vehicles at an intersection

  2. Lesson on night-time visibility
    Users can experience the breaking distance depending on the speed and the color of the obstacles at the night-time driving with using headlights.

Diagnosis Data collection program function
  • Results are produced from the data collected during the driving lessons including driving operations and driving log. Driving log collects data in terms of acceleration and breaking, smooth steering, driving at limited speed, traffic signal, observing once atop, hazard prediction, safety and ecological driving , headway (hazard prediction), clearance sense, considerate driving, winker operation and seat belt.
    Diagnosis result can be tabulated with graph and advice to the experience driver.
    Driving diagnosis

UC-win/Road Ver.5.0 Safety Driving Simulator / Safety Driving educational material planned release date: August 2010
Conferences, training and seminars
Up coming conference and trade shows
FORUM 8 will participate the following conference

ITE Show, August 8-11, 2011, Vancouver, Canada
ITE: Institute of Transportation Engineers
http://www.ite.org/annualmeeting/

Overseas Training and Seminars

Seminars in Shaghai, Beijing and Seoul will be held on the following schedule.

Venue:
Shanghai - Shanghai Seminar room (FORUM8 Technology Development(Shanghai) Co., Ltd) MAP

Beijing- eMapgo Technologies(Beijing)Co.,Ltd URL


Seoul : FORUM8 Korean Office, Seoul Address

Seminar Date City
UC-win/Road VR  August 12th , 2010 Beijing
August 19th , 2010  Seoul 
September 3rd, 2010  Seoul
September 14th, 2010 Shanghai 
UC-win/Road Advanced  August 4th , 2010 Shanghai /Seoul
September 9th, 2010  Seoul
September 16th, 2010  Beijing 
UC-win/Road SDK August 11th , 2010  Seoul
September 8th, 2010  Shanghai  
Engineer's Studio(TM), 
Engineer's Studio(TM)(2D))
 
September 17th, 2010  Seoul 
VR-Studio(TM) September 28th, 2010  Shanghai  
 UC-1 Series Introduction August 27th , 2010  Seoul 
xpswmm (Road for xpswmm) August 2nd , 2010 Seoul
OSCADY/TRANSYT   August 18th, 2010 Seoul
Temporary sheating work design for Korean regulations  September 24th, 2010 Seoul
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