TouAREG

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O The Touristic Augmented Reality Environments Guide (TouAREG) is an investigation project financed by the EuroStars Program in cooperation with the german company LatitudeN.

Its proposal ranked fifth in an European quality contest, among more than 100 appliances. The core idea of TouAREG is to develop a Mobile Augmented Reality system for user orientation in open and closed spaces, using a simple smartphone with GPS, camera and an accelerometer. The main goal is to provide the user with real time available information: maps, multimedia content and further contents for the enrichment of the touristic experience.

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AIRTICI

The Advanced Interactive Robotic Tools for the Inspection of Critical Infrastructures (AIRTICI) has as a goal the development of robotic tools and advanced techniques for the inspection of critical infrastructures to provide the industry with advanced diagnostics tools. The cost involved in the building and maintainance of critical infrastructures such as bridges, dams, power transmission lines and industrial chimneys, and the tangible and intangible consequences of their failures justify the existence of a program for monitoring and diagnosis the risk of the structure. This helps to decide when to perform the necessary preventive maintenance or repair for those structures.

Regarding this project a new autonomous QuadRotor for infrastructures inspection shall be developed with its usability demonstrated by using it in three different realistic scenarios. This project comprises a multidisciplinary team from a broad specturm of key areas of technology such as bridges, viaducts, and dams inspection (using classical techniques), aerial inspection of power transmission lines (using video image and lasers installed in tripulated helicopters) and industrial chimneys inspection (through infrared cameras, computer aided vision, robotics, advanced navigation systems and sensor acquired and processed signals).


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Video Analysis of Flies Behaviour

With the increasing necessity of extracting the maximum amount of information from biological experiments, several frameworks of automated processing were implemented for universities and investigation centers, for example the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência and Columbia University of New York.


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Morphological Analysis

Automatic estimation of the femoral tibial articulation and the femoral hip joint angles and length of the respective anatomic segment.

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Trajectory tracking

Reconstruction of the route taken by the fly over a specific period of time, allowing the user to see their location and instant speed at any moment.

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Behaviour Analysis

Behavioral study of flies at mating. The following data are extracted: distance between individuals, their speed, their gender (male of female), mating rituals and copulation time.

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MDSC (MAHLE)

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MDSC is a computer vision system, which automatically detects the correct parts on the assembly line of MAHLE using a robust algorithm of classification and segmentation.

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DPLUS 2 (Procalçado)

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The DPLUS2.0 permits to scan molds soles. In the footwear industry, the aluminum castings used in the manufacture of soles have errors caused by the contraction of aluminum.

The DPLUS 2.0 gives the exact 3D model of the mold in order to design the covers of their molds. These covers are finely calibrated to fit the lines in order to make the soles. Reverse proposed a scanning solution + software modeling. In the video you can see how it shapes the covers from the scanned model.

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DPLUS FOOT

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Typically, the orthopedic shoes are custom made using plaster. It is slow, cumbersome and requires storage of plaster.

The DPLUS FOOT acquires the three-dimensional model of the foot. The system captures information from different points of view so getting a computational model complete and accurate feet. The DPLUS is a scanning system for structured light, using algorithms of computer vision to make the 3D reconstruction.

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DPLUS INSOLE (SuperEgo)

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A custom insole leads to better results in the correction of orthopedic problems and gives extra comfort in professional activities and sports.

However, the insole customization process is long and costly. The DPLUS INSOLE scans the foot or indirectly phenolic foam before it is printed, as shown in the video.

With the model of the foot, podiatrists can project the model of the othotics, and send to a CNC to be drilled. SuperEgo use DPLUS INSOL to produce the insoles of their customers.

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DPLUS 2 (Gulliver)

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Scan small real models for projecting large-scale models is the challenge of Gulliver.

The DPLUS 2.0 is a scanner for real objects of small size, made by artists. In computer, models can be manipulated and scaled, to be machined in CNC's.

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DPLUS MIRROR (SAK)

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Leggings has produced better protection in football players. The process usually uses a plaster, so it is slow, intrusive and has problems of transport and storage.

The DPLUS MIRROR developed by Reverse allows the 360º scanning of the player leg, without any contact, without plaster and in less than 1 minute. The system is portable and uses a catadioptric system of lenses and mirrors to get the different perspectives of the leg, without moving the machine or leg. The SAK has adopted the system in its manufacturing process

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