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Mixed Reality Projects

As part of my graduate certificate in Mixed Reality Engineering, I have taken courses on augmented reality, virtual reality, and rapid prototyping mixed reality applications, and I have created demos to demonstrate the principles I learned in the class.

BEAMvr

BEAMvr is a virtual reality rapid architectural modeling application that simulates different lighting conditions. This project is a joint effort with two other teammates with each of us working on a key feature. My main contributions were to developing the lighting controls and texture painting. A more detailed description of the project pitch can be found in my blog post.

Poly Lands

For my Virtual Reality Engineering class, I created a small adventure story set in the fictional Poly Lands to help connect the different demos. The story first implements wayfinding to guide the player to the market. Then the story utilizes interactions by providing the player with some weapons to chose from at the market place so that they will be able to defend themselves at night. The player is then led to a cabin to display physics in Unity before enemies attack the player. The last update sees the player teleporting to a safe location in the mountains to sleep for the night.

Video Demos

A full list of demos of my augmented and virtual reality projects can be found using the following links. These examples are built using Unity, Vuforia, and the Oculus Integration SDK.

Modeling and Simulation Projects

Facilitator Intervention Cognitive Model for Cooperative Activities

IDS 6267: Understanding Humans for Modeling and Simulation

Understanding Humans for Modeling and Simulation acted as my foundational course for the psychology side of modeling and simulation. I learned about different cognitive architectures and practiced applying these psychological concepts to create my own cognitive model. The model takes inspiration from existing models but instead depicts the cognitive process of a facilitator facilitating a team-building activity and determining when or if they should intervene in a situation.

Evaluating impact of Berth Crane Capacity and Speed on Port Models

IDS 6145: Simulation Techniques

For the final project for SimTech, my group compared the performance of three different port models created in AnyLogic under different conditions. This project evaluated the impact of quay cranes speed on in-port transportation and storage networks by comparing container throughput at three US shipping ports. The goal was to model varying quay cranes speeds to identify the most efficient operation of berth side cranes while maintaining safe and cost-efficient operations. Because the process of unloading and loading shipping containers involves a series of interdependent processes, this model focused on measures directly linked to crane operations, which includes crane speed, number of cranes and container throughput (i.e., rate of unloading cranes and the number leaving port). These variables were compared across the Tampa, Savannah and Los Angeles ports.

One of our findings was that the containers in storage and containers serviced are complementary metrics that correlate with the time to unload a ship. The number of containers in storage increased as the time to unload a ship decreased. Conversely, the number of containers serviced decreased as the time to unload a ship decreased.