FORUM8 Design Festival 2011-3Days |
| Lecture overview / Introduction of lecturers |
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12th UC-win/Road Conference |
| Special Lecture 1 |
9:10-9:50 |
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Taketoshi Kawabe
Professor of School of Systems Life Sciences Kyushu University
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"Energy-saving control of vehicle and its future vision - expectation
for simulation technology"
The control method which allows driving based on the optimized calculation
according to the traffic condition as the energy saving method for vehicles
has lately been the focus. In this research, the key is the control effect
prediction using the simulation of traffic condition. He will explain the
current situation of this procedure. |
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| He received the B. Sc. degree from Department of Applied Physics, School
of Science and Engineering, Waseda University in 1981, and M. Sc. from
Major in Pure and Applied Physics, Waseda University in 1984. He had been
working with Nissan Research Center, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. since 1984
to 2005. He was a research student of Department of Mathematical Engineering
and Information Physics, Tokyo University in 1992 and 1993, and received
the Ph. D degree from the university in 1994. He is currently the professor
of School of Systems Life Sciences Kyushu University. |
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| Special Lecture 2 |
9:50-10:20 |
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Thomas Gillespie
Mechanical Simulation Inc. |
"CarSim and TruckSim Vehicle Dynamics Models for Use with Driving
Simulators"
The advanced vehicle dynamics models can be used by integrating the CarSim
software developed by Mechanical Simulation (USA) with the 3D VR visualization
capabilities of UC-Win/Road, and drive simulator. In this lecture, he will
explain the simulation of high-fidelity vehicle dynamics model of various
vehicles including passenger cars, trucks, and bikes. |
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| A Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. His research
field is on vehicle dynamics. He currently serves as the Director of Product
Planning at Mechanical Simulation Corporation in Ann Arbor, Michigan. |
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| Special Lecture 3 |
10:30-11:00 |
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Fujita Kenichiro
Keihin development department, Alpine Electronics, Inc. |
"Introduction of car navigation system with ITS and utilization of
driving simulation"
He will introduce the technologies of the latest large and high-solution
car navigation system which support for ITS. Case studies involving the
use of driving simulator with VR with aosl be introduced. |
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| Senior Engineer at Keihin development department of Alpine Electronics,
Inc. He has developed the ITS/Telematics of the car navigation system for
a long time. He has participated in the creation of the standard specifications
of JEITA ITS car equipment. |
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| Special Lecture 4 |
11:00-11:30 |
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Peom PARK
Professor of Ajou University |
"Evaluation of the package of inside the vehicle using VR simulation
(with HMD)"
He will introduce the case study of the visibility package of inside vehicle
interface. He will touch on the interface evaluation of inside vehicle
using HMD and UC-win/Road. |
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| He researches the human engineering and intuitive interface by linking
with virtual reality system. More than 200 research papers have been posted
on the academic journals. |
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| Presentation 1 |
11:30-11:45 |
| "New function of UC-win/RoadVer.6 and development of 8DOF driving
simulator" |
Pencreach Yoann, FORUM8 VR development Group
He will introduce the latest feature of UC-win/Road Ver.6 including the
simulation function such as crowd movement, the vehicle motion model, the
driving simulation function such as road surface attribution. |
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| Presentation 2 |
11:45-12:00 |
| "Development of train signal visibility system" |
Ryuichi Sato, FORUM8 System Development Group
If the train signal visibility can be evaluated with computer in advance,
the expense for adjusting the train signal installation position can be
reduced. He will introduce the advanced use of VR system which enables
it. |
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5th International VR Symposium |
| Special Lecture 5 |
14:20-14:40 |
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Ishita Michiyuki
Representative of Projection Mapping Association of Japan |
"Projection mapping and its potentiality"
"Projection mapping" is the representation method for projecting
the movie on the buildings and objects directly with the projector. This
method has been focused on by its impact such as luster effect. He will
introduce the feature of this method and case studies in the country and
overseas, and future development and possibilities including the expanding
to the sightseeing and digital signage fields. |
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| A representative of Projection Mapping Association of Japan. He works in
a wide range of field including the projection mapping as a movie and space
creator in the country and overseas. |
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| Special Lecture 6 |
14:40-15:00 |
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Satoshi Machida
Representative of Ambient Media of Japan |
"Utilization of 3D Marketing"
Currently, the word "3D" has gained wider acceptance as compared
to before. However, 3D is built on the various specific fields such as
3DCG, 3D movie, 3DCAD, 3D space (position information), and each of them
have not fully understood each other. In this lecture, he will provide
the new view point "3D marketing" for people who use and provide
3D technology to show the future development of the 3D market. |
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| Representative of Ambient Media of Japan. Contents service producer. Digital
signage consultant, 3D media consultant URCF advisor. |
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World16 Presentation 15:10-18:00 |
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: Announcement of Honorable Academy Award 2008-2010 |
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: Announcement of Business Modeling Research Award (Summer Workshop) |
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Marcos Novak
Professor of University of California, Santa Barbara/USA |
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"Media Field Navigation"
He will introduce the possibilities of virtual navigation in the information
space using the various mobile devices as a platform to use the required
information based on each purpose. |
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Kostas Terzidis
Associate Professor of Harvard University Graduate School of Design/USA |
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"E-parking Simulation"
He will focus on the possibilities of the parking business based on the
floating rate system using mobile device and GPS, and introduce the development
of the simulation with UC-win/Road to assess the viability of eParking. |
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Matthew Swarts
Professor of Georgia Institute of Technology/USA |
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"Shader Graphs for UC-win/Road"
He will introduce the research and development of plug-in "AmbientOcclusion:AO"
which allows the improvement of VR by adding the soft shade to the object
with UC-win/Road. |
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Marc Aurel SCHNABEL
Professor of Chinese University of Hong Kong/Hong Kong |
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"Digital Manga UC-win Road"
He will introduce the research and development of "Manga-Me plug-in"
which allows the automatic conversion of the VR data texture of UC-win/Road
into the manga representation such as lines and screen tone. |
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Wael Abdelhameed
Assistant Professor of University of Bahrain/Bahrain |
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VR in Construction Monitoring
He will introduce the utilization of VR in construction monitoring in the
construction project management. He will explain the visualization of the
position relationship of the structure members and the construction steps
(4D) by giving the attribution to the VR model. |
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Thomas Tucker
Associate Professor of Winston-Salem State University/USA |
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"3D character development"
He will measure various movements of human and animals using motion capture
method to represent the detailed movement by using realistic 3D character
models on UC-win/Road. |
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Ronald Hawker
Associate Professor of Zayed University/UAE |
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"Visualizing farming community "Wadi Madaiq""
He will visualize the terrain of the farming community around the dry river
and the distribution of the private residences by integrating various information
and media such as GPS data and 3D model. He will introduce his research
on the relationship with the water flow in the irrigation system. |
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Tomohiro Fukuda
Professor of Osaka University/ Japan |
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"Two "cloud" technologies: Point Cloud Optimization and
VR Cloud Application for Townscape Design
He will introduce the two "cloud" technologies related to townscape
design and the project. He focuses on the creation of point cloud model
with 3D laser scan and the capability of a distributed and synchronized
meeting by using cloud computing type VR. |
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Taro Narahara
Assistant Professor of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)/USA |
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"Extreme Interaction with UC-win/Road using a Lightweight Character
Representation Method"
He will introduce a computational prototype that allows a VR environment
in UC-win/Road to communicate directly to Hardware devises such as Arduino
Microcontroller through a user friendly graphical interface. |
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Amar Bennadji
Associate Professor of Robert Gordon University/UK |
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"Implementing "Traffic derivation protocol" to UC/win/Road
to avoid traffic jams while visualizing VR models"
He will introduce the research of traffic system. The traffic data is collected
with the mobile device, car sensor, illuminating lamp, fixed camera in
the intersection, and the information is sent based on the request to avoid
the traffic jams. |
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Michael Jemtrud
Associate Professor of McGill University/Canada |
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"Multiple Stakeholders in the Shadows of the Datascape"
He developed the VR model using the data missing from point clouds created
from 3D scanning technologies to enable simultaneous presentation of diverse
points of view from the multiple stakeholders. |
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Paolo Fiamma
Professor of University of Pisa/Italy |
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"Traffic simulation in Lucca"
He will introduce the research of road traffic simulation using the VR
data from UC-win/Road created by building and road GIS data and the site
data in Lucca, Italy. |
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Yoshihiro Kobayashi
Prism lab. Of Arizona State University, representative of FORUM8 AZ/USA |
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"City Design Tool for Japanese castle VR modeling"
He will introduce the research and development of a design tool for automatic
Japanese-Castles development in detail including the roof-tiles and structure.
In addition, he will explain the construction process in VR with UC-win/Road.. |
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The 5th Design Conference "Civil / Analysis" session |
| Special lecture 1 |
9:20-10:20 CPD certificate |
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Mr. Kazuhiko Kawashima
Graduate School of Civil Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
"Current condition of civil structures confirmed by the damage of
the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the future technical vision."
In the Japan Earthquake, apart for the damage by tsunami, the improvement
of earthquake-resistant design technology and implement of earthquake strengthening
etc. such as the application of dynamic bearing capacity method at the
time of earthquake and seismic isolation design which has been proceeded
since 1990s, adoption of laminated rubber bearing for seismic isolation,
drastic strengthening of structure for prevention of collapse of a bridge
etc. contributed to mitigation of damage greatly. However, this earthquake
occurred at the point far distant from inland, and was not an intense earthquake
motion. A lecture will be given about what kind of subject occurs to the
epicenter earthquake of inland which exceeds the Great Hanshin Earthquake. |
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| Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, completed the graduate school
of civil engineering at Nagoya University in 1972, was posted to Public
Works Research Institute, through the general manager of earthquake resistant
research in 1984 and has been present post since 1995. Doctor of engineering. |
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| Special lecture 2 |
10:30-11:15 CPD certificate |
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Doctor Takeshi Nishikawa
Foundation for Computational Science (FOCUS) |
" Effective use of the world fastest supercomputer "K" for
civil construction and automobile industry"
He will introduce how the feasibility will be visible by the application
in the field of civil engineering, architecture, automobile. Moreover,
he will also introduce what should be done to make full use of "Kei"
which is parallel environment which is over ten thousand with the activity
of Foundation for Computational Science (FOCUS). |
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| Doctor (Engineering). He has engaged in the work concerned with industrial
use of supercomputer since 2007 and in parallel programming by MPI etc.
since 1991. |
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| Special lecture 3 |
13:00-13:45 CPD certificate |
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Mr. Takaaki Nakamura
Shinozuka Research Institute. |
"Utilization of earthquake risk management and lessons learned from
the Great East Japan Earthquake"
He will present a path of concretion about how to restart the business
as soon as possible as the preparation for broad disaster by the application
of earthquake risk management. |
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| He has worked at Shinozaki Research Institute since 1990, as CEO since
2009 and is also a doctor of engineering, a visiting lecturer at the Graduate
School at Tokyo Institute of Technology at Tokyo City University and part-time
instructor in the Graduate School of Science and Engineering at Waseda
University and other. He has written books such as "Earthquake risk
management" (Gihodo Shuppan 2009) etc. His specialty is reliability
engineering and risk management. |
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| Special lecture 4 |
13:45-14:15 CPD certificate |
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Mr. Takayuki Omori
Oriental Consultants Co., Ltd |
"Earthquake resistant design of steel rigid frame bridge pier and
L-type eccentric steel bridge pier using fiber model (Dynamic analysis)"
He will introduce the earthquake-resistant design method of bridge adopting
the steel rahmen substructure and inverted L-shaped eccentric steel bridge
piers, its result and review, the future task etc., from the point of view
of design consultant. |
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| He graduated from graduate school of civil engineering environment at Kumamoto
University in March, 1998 and has worked at Kyushu branch of SC operational
headquarter of Oriental Consultants Co., Ltd, for 14 years and is concrete
diagnosis person. |
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| Special lecture 5 |
14:15-14:45 CPD certificate |
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Mr. Yoshiaki Nakai
Executive managing director of Asahi Engineering Co., Ltd |
"Introduction of dynamic analysis of easy-rahmen bridge in level 2
earthquake condition using Engineer’s Studio(R)"
Rigid frame bridge is gaining much attention as an item which meets requirement,
such as reduction of construction cost and maintenance and operation cost
or advancement of earthquake resistant performance. He will introduce the
flow from the design summary and input to the analysis result of easy slab
bridge. |
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| He took the master's course at Kanazawa University in 1988 and has charge
of technical director at Asahi Engineering co., ltd. |
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| Special lecture 6 |
15:30-16:00 CPD certificate |
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Professor Kenji Daito
Faculty of Technology, Daido University, Vice-chairman of Chubu Geotechnical
Research Association of Japanese Geotechnical Society, Chairman of Aichi
Soil and Underwater Research Association |
"Comprehension of ground property using soil pollution and geographical
information database"
He will give an explanation about database system architecture for collecting,
arrangement and application of geographical information, compiling of database
of paper of histogram and ground pollution data, plot of location information
on plane view using electron soil portal of Geospatial Information Authority
of Japan, output of histogram etc. |
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| He passed through an assistant of Nagoya University and became an assistant
professor at Daido University in April, 1996. He had been a visiting educator
at Oregon State University in the USA from October 1999 to July 2000 and
has been a professor at engineering faculty in Daito University from April
2002. |
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| Special lecture 7 |
16:00-16:30 CPD certificate |
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Mr. Toshihiro Hanada
President, Bulld Geotechno Co., Ltd |
"Points to be careful for geotechnical analysis using GeoFEAS"
He will introduce "the way and analysis example for analysis result"
in geographical analysis by FEM geographical analysis program "GeoFEAS".
Using the example of FEM analysis work, he will give an explanation about
what he is doing and where the fail is hiding. |
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| President, Bulld Geotechno Co., Ltd, professional engineering (construction
department / general technology department). Specialized in retaining wall
design, soil structure and design and analysis of basic structure. |
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| Presentation 1 |
11:15-12:00 CPD certificate |
| "Overview of super computer cloud services" |
Katsumi Matsuda, FORUM8 System sales group
He will introduce about the new solution of large-scale analysis, simulation,
CG rendering etc. making use of high calculation performance of supercomputer,
such as analysis cloud service, noise acoustic supercomputer analysis,
wind / thermal fluid supercomputer analysis and so on. |
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| Presentation 2 |
15:00-15:30 CPD certificate |
| "Latest function and case studies of Engineer’s StudioR and FRAME
(3D)" |
Yoshitaka Kai, FORUM8 Analysis support team
He will compare and analyze the result of stereo analysis using nonlinear
plate element Engineer's Studio(R) and plane analysis using fiber element
of UC-win/FRAME(3D) with an example of ponded construction of distributing
reservoir etc. The latest function will be also introduced. |
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| Presentation 3 |
16:30-17:00 CPD certificate |
| "Latest information on Geotechnical analysis series" |
Atsushi Nakamura, FORUM8 UC-1 development group1
He will introduce the tendency of analysis support work of UWLC and GeoFEAS2D
which is one of the Geo technical analysis series, latest NewMark method
of slope stability, revised content of LEM3D Ver.2, the latest information
of externally stable verification of temporary sheathing work design and
the future plan. |
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The 5th Design Conference "Architecture / BIM" session |
| Special lecture 8 |
9:20-10:00 |
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Mr. Kazuya Soejima
President, Newton Consulting Ltd. |
"The latest information of BCP creation support project and the points
for planning"
What is important on BCP is to rank as a management strategy which is directly
linked to sales and marketing and to where should we work on it. In Tokyo,
BCP creation support work of small and medium-sized companies has been
started since 2010. He will introduce about its effort and correspondence
for earthquake disaster of BCP creation company. |
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| He joined IBM Japan, Ltd. in 1991. He has been a director and president
NEWTONIT in UK since 1998. He established Newton Consulting Ltd. in Japan
in 2006. IRCABCM technical expert, observer of JIPDEC BCMS technical expert
group, other. |
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| Special lecture 9 |
10:30-11:00 Simultaneous interpretation Japanese-English |
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Dr. Evelyn, Ai-Lin TEO
Associate Professor of Director of External Affairs at Department
of Building of National University of Singapore |
"Enhancing Productivity: Electronic Quick Bills of Quantities via
BIM"
Dr TEO will speak about how e-quick-BQ system can be used by the construction
industry for increased productivity. |
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| Associate Professor and Director of External Affairs at Department of Building
of National University of Singapore. |
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| Special lecture 10 |
11:00-11:30 Simultaneous interpretation Japanese-English |
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Prof. Nashwan Dawood
Director of Technology
Futures Institute, Teesside University, UK |
"Symantec
information technology for reducing CO2 in urban planning"
The approach to the CO2 reduction in city planning which made the semantic
information which unifies the data of energy, environment, construction
information, economy, etc. the platform is introduced. |
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| Director of the Technology Futures Institute, through which the engineering and
technology research. |
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| Presentation 4 |
10:00-10:20 |
| "Solutions
for local government, BCP support tool" |
Mr. Takuya Miyamoto Forum8 SuperComputer-Cloud development team
Preparing the function of supposition of project risk, returning home support at
the time of disaster, the display of action plan after BCP （Business Continuity
Plan）invocation, solutions for local government "BCP support tool" which
supports the creation of BCP will be introduced. |
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| Presentation 5 |
11:30-11:45 |
| "Introduction
of FORUM8 BIM&VR solutions" |
Jun Imaizumi, FORUM8 VR support group
He will introduce FORUM8's BIM&VR solutions with the each software used for
excellent works of Virtual Design World Cup and task creation and examples of
Kobe data provided on VR-Cloud(TM) in Build Live Kobe2011. |
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| Presentation 6 |
11:45-12:00 Simultaneous interpretation Japanese-English |
| "Heat
scanning service with infrared sensor" |
Haffid Niniss, FORUM8 robot development team
He will introduce the system development which extends 3D mapping function by
unifying and using a depth camera and the data of thermography and enables
detection of heat and flood in a building. |
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The 5th Design Conference "Sewerage and Stormwater" session |
| Special lecture 11 |
13:00-13:40 CPD certificate |
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Professor Masaru
Shibaura Institute of Technology |
"Quantification of flood risk of rainwater drainage in the urban area
- case study with xpswmm"
Looking back into history of runoff analysis and flood model of urban storm
drainage and we'll clarify what xpswmm is. Furthermore, the method of flood risk
quantification which combined flood inundation models and flood damage
calculation model is explained and offer the outline of flood risk management.
As an example of the application of flood risk quantification, the calculated
example of risk assessment by rainwater drainage plan and changing climate is
shown and risk impact factor is introduced as a risk estimative index. |
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| Professor in Civil Engineering at Shibaura Institute Technology. His specialized
field is urban hydrology and groundwater hydrology. He makes a strong effort to
the research of flood risk management recently. |
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| Special lecture 12 |
13:40-14:20 CPD certificate |
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Professor Hiroaki Furumai
Research Center for Water
Environment, Department of Urban Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering ,
University of Tokyo |
"View of modeling in analysis of pollution outflow in rainy weather
in an urban area"
Control regulation and management are needed from the point of pollution outflow
loading doze at the time of rainfall in urban region and regrowth of water
environment. Especially, for the quantitative evaluation of flow of very small
quantity of harmful material and combined sewerage overflow water phenomenon,
survey work considered ground level feature and sewerage facility is needed. At
this lecture, with organizing the important points at the time of pollution
behavior and evaluation and prediction of loading doze using rain runoff model
in a distributed city, the example of analysis of pollution outflow is
introduced. |
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| Study area is urban storm water management and water environment conservation.
He received many academic awards of Japan Society on Water Environment in 2010. |
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| Special lecture 13 |
14:20-14:45 CPD certificate |
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Mr. Takefumi Kobayashi
Nihon Suiko Sekkei Co., Ltd |
"Case study
of flood provision using ground surface flooding analysis in City A
(Provisional)"
In A city B area which is a flood-prone zone, introduction of a work example
aimed at visualization of a flood risk by dissolution of the flood damage
caused by design of a rain water maintenance plan and creation of the flood
assumed zone figure of the present condition. By using xpswmm, the waterway
and earth surface of the area are reproduced by 1D / 2D model and it is
utilized for grasp of the present problem and the check of the measure
effect by implementation of gradual rain water maintenance. |
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| He is engaged in formulation of a sewerage plan, etc. and graduated from Nihon
University of civil engineering department. |
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| Discussion |
15:30-16:30 CPD certificate |
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Mr. Kouki Ishikawa
MC：NPO Water Environment Construction Club |
"Utilization
of disaster analysis and future development"
There are unusually a lot of natural disasters this year, such as the tremendous
damage by large tsunami of the Japan earthquake on March 11, inundation damage
by a heavy rain from July to August, also the flood damage by hurricane which
hit the east coast area in the USA etc. To the question "Isn't there anything we
can do for the natural disaster like this?", the evaluation regarding to the
risk and the current condition of disaster analysis method are introduced and
discussions will be carried out with academic experts and swmm users. |
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| He completed the master's course of University of Michigan in 1975, has been
director of Nihon Suikou Sekkei, Ltd. Osaka office, administration officer of
Water Environment Construction Club, professor of graduate school of Kyoto
University. |
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| Presentation 7 |
15:00-15:30 CPD certificate |
| "Modeling disaster analysis using the cutting edge technology of
xpswmm" |
Mr. Ashis Dey, XP Software Pty Ltd.
The approach by an appropriate modeling is indispensable for the refined
analysis towards disasters like flood and tsunami etc. Here, by using the
cutting-edge model for the further understanding of factor model and setting of
urban region, especially, an explanation about the difficult points of the
modeling and how to overcome it are given as an explanation. |
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| Presentation 8 |
16:30-17:00 CPD certificate |
| "Tsunami analysis and visualization with
xpswmm" |
Makoto Hada, FORUM8 UC-1 development group1
The scenario collapsed on the way is included in the conventional tsunami
analysis which fixed the breakwater as prevention to a flow and the disaster
situation in the Kamaishi harbor is reproduced by a numeric simulation, and the
possibility of visualization towards disaster reduction is shown. |
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