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- Armor and soldier performance
- Clothing modeling
- Dynamic strength and failure
- Gait
- Human performance
- Immersive virtual reality
- Intuitive interfaces
- Motion capture
- Musculoskeletal modeling
- Physiology
- Posture and motion prediction
- Predictive dynamics
- Spine modeling
- Standard ergonomic assessments
- Whole-body vibration
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Zone differentiation
The Virtual Soldier Research (VSR) program conducts basic and applied research and development in the field of human modeling and simulation. Our research is aimed at creating interactive, intelligent, and predictive human models that operate in virtual, physics-based environments, including Santos, a physics-based human simulator that is used by the US military and industry partners.
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Karim Abdel-Malek
Director, Virtual Soldier Research Program
Director, Iowa Technology Institute
Professor of biomedical, mechanical, and industrial engineering and applied mathematical and computational sciences