Need to undertake the 3D biomechanical assessment of human interaction with products, work spaces or living spaces? Could you use a tool that will assist you in measuring and assessing movement in any environment? Are you responsible for identifying safety risks in your company or its products? Do you find it necessary to move beyond subjective task assessment and into the realm of objective analysis?

In use in a wide variety of ergonomic and human factor applications within organizarions such as BMW, John Deere and Airbus, Vicon systems can help with both video and digital optical motion measurement and analysis.

REAL-TIME & OFFLINE
With Vicon you work in real-time, seeing immediate visualization of your investigation. With Vicon cameras, this is conducted in a single application, Vicon Tracker, so you don't have to learn multiple systems. With this one piece of software, you can track head movements, conduct ingress-egress and seated operator studies, perform Visual assembly studies with immediate feedback in your desired analysis application with the highest confidence in data quality.

HIGHLY ACCURATE. NOISE FREE.
Vicon has consistently delivered product innovations to continually upgrade the accuracy of the system. Today, regardless of sensor resolution, from 0.3 to 16 Megapixels, every Vicon camera captures grayscale information.

ALL ENVIRONMENTS
Need to capture inside a confined space, such as a vehicle or cockpit? Need to capture underwater? Need to capture outdoors? Again Vicon has a solution. Regardless of environment, there is a Vicon system that can help.

LOW COST OPTIONS
With such a wide range of cameras available a Vicon solution is more accessible than you might think. Contact your local sales office for more information.

FULLY INTEGRATED
Tracker streams data in to 3D applications such as Dassault Systèmes Delmia and VirTools, TrackD, Autodesk MotionBuilder and VRJuggler. Tracker supports the Vicon DataStream which allows Unicast TCP connections and Multicast UDP connections and VRPN. Everything works together - beautifully.

EXPERIENCE COUNTS
Airbus, Ford, BMW and NASA are some of the leading users driving Vicon systems at the forefront of groundbreaking applications in ergonomics engineering and research. From the high accuracy and speed of the Vicon T-Series systems through to the flexibility of the Vicon Bonita, Vicon offers the solutions and expertise to ensure your study is completed accurately, effectively and efficiently.

Example Applications

Whether you are studying a recurring problem or investigating something that no one has seen before, if it moves and you need a close and precise result, Vicon can provide you with tools that are accurate, simple and comprehensive to develop your assessments and substantiate recommendations.

Vicon’s digital optical measurement have been used in a wide variety of industrial, ergonomics and human factors applications. These include:

• Quantifying repetitive movements that may cause cumulative trauma disorders, such as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, leading to rising costs in injury claims and lost production.
• Determining a worker’s range of motion throughout a task or work cycle.
• Augmenting evaluation tools already in use, such as OSHA and NIOSH measurement techniques.
• Assessing human/machine interaction.
• Designing, testing, and validating ergonomically sound devices and workstations.
• Accurately measuring 2D and 3D movement, including displacements, angles, velocities and accelerations for almost every part of the body.
• Human factors & ergonomics specialists can conduct multiple variable permutations, tracking head movements, motor reaction and conduct ingress-egress and seated operator studies with immediate feedback and at the highest confidence levels.
• Human interaction in systems engineering for comfort, logistics and range of motion, motor movement are all areas where Vicon adds value and benefits the end result, well before a physical prototype has been built.

Relevant Products

You need to consider a number of factors when determining which Vicon cameras are the right for your application. These include what you wish to track, the size of volume you wish to track within and how accurate do you need the measurements to be. Vicon's staff can help you work through your needs and develop recommendations. Contact your local Vicon office or reseller for more information.

Vicon T-Series and Bonita
Robust and portable, both T-Series and Bonita cameras are quick to setup and operate in a wide variety of conditions. It is easy to scale up or down to match your needs. You can operate in a small volume with just a few cameras, or create bigger systems with any number of cameras for large-scale projects.

Vicon cameras offer a digital optical system which is easy to use in industrial conditions and independently verified as the most accurate available, with typical deviation of less than 0.1mm. Greater accuracy means cleaner data, more reliable tracking, and higher quality results.

Vicon's Tracker software is built around intelligent algorithms that adapt to your operating methods and deliver optimum results at every stage of the process. Vicon Tracker offers a high-speed, unified data pipeline, reducing the amount of operator intervention needed to deliver outstanding results. Vicon Tracker streams real-time data to third-party humanoid mannequin software such as CoVise RAMSIS and Dassualt Systeme’s Delmia Safework, allowing you to create advanced ergonomic studies of physical attributes and environments.

For more information on the Vicon T-Series and Bonita range of products, see the camera pages on this site.