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 can work in real-time, seeing immediate visualization of your investigation, or offline, recording the movement for later analysis. With Vicon MX this is all conducted in a single application, so you don't have to learn multiple systems. With this one piece of software, you can conduct multiple variable permutations, track head movements, and conduct ingress-egress and seated operator studies with immediate feedback and at the highest confidence levels.

HIGHLY ACCURATE. NOISE FREE.
Vicon has consistently delivered product innovations to continually upgrade the accuracy of the system. Today, regardless of sensor resolution, from 300K pixels to 4M pixels, every Vicon MX camera captures grayscale information. This enables the system to more accurately measure your area of interest to an accuracy never possible before – every step of the way, accuracy is the focus.

ALL ENVIRONMENTS
Need to capture inside a confined space, such as a vehicle or cockpit? Vicon offers the small SVCam camera. Need to capture underwater? Use the video-based solutions, in 2D or 3D. Need to capture outdoors? Again Vicon have a solution. Regardless of environment, there is a Vicon system which can help.

LOW COST OPTIONS
With solutions from $5,000, a Vicon solution may be more accessible than you think. Moreover because all the components which make up the Vicon product line interoperate, you can add to your system incrementally as your needs grow without having to throw anything away - protecting the investment you've made.

FULLY INTEGRATED
Everything works together - beautifully. For example, Vicon standardize on the industry owned and defined, open file format C3D, to contain all the measured and calculated 3D information. So all of the Vicon applications can exchange information without the need for laborious file format conversion. Moreover if you need to get the 3D data into a custom tool, because the interfaces and file formats are all published, you can just write a simple import system direct to published APIs.

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 of the Vicon MX systems through to the flexibility of the Vicon Motus products, Vicon offer 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 two key technologies of video-based and 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

Determining whether Vicon MX or Vicon Motus is the right solution for your application, you need to consider a number of factors. These include what it is you wish to track, the size of volume you wish to track within, whether indoors or outdoors 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 MX
Robust and portable, Vicon MX high quality system is 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 MX offers 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.

For capture and visualization of 3D skeletal and spatial information, Vicon Workstation and Polygon allow you analyze angular information and object proximity, produce multimedia reports, and integrate easily with third-party software including Excel, LabView, and MATLAB.

Vicon’s iQ software is built around intelligent algorithms that adapt to your operating methods and deliver optimum results at every stage of the process from capture to output. Vicon iQ offers a high-speed, unified data pipeline, reducing the amount of operator intervention needed to deliver outstanding results. Vicon iQ can provide real-time data to third-party humanoid mannequin software such as Jack from UGS Jack, 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 MX range of products, see the Vicon MX product pages on this site.

Vicon Motus
Vicon Motus has taken digital video to the next level by developing an easy-to-use set of motion measurement tools that is ideal for worksite analysis and design. Once you’ve completed your analysis, you can document your results and recommendations with customizable hardcopy reports.

In addition, the animated graphic displays can be converted easily into AVI or JPEG files for use in web pages and other presentation media. Using an integrative and objective approach, once you locate a problem, you can implement a process to make change. Vicon Motus can simultaneously combine video and/or optical capture computer technology with analog data from force platforms, EMG and other analog devices, allowing you to view and analyze complex problems and make recommendations for a cost effective solution.

For more information on the Vicon Motus range of 2D and 3D motion measurement and analysis, review the Vicon Motus product pages on this site.