Virtual Reality Toolbox™ 4.7

Product Description

• Introduction and Key Features
• Links from Simulink to a Virtual Reality World
• Tools for Viewing and Building Virtual Reality Worlds
• MATLAB Interface to the Virtual Reality World
• C Code Support

Introduction

The Virtual Reality Toolbox lets you view and interact with dynamic system simulations in a 3-D virtual reality environment. The toolbox links MATLAB and Simulink with virtual reality graphics, enabling MATLAB or Simulink to control the position, rotation, and dimensions of the 3-D images defined in the virtual reality environment. The result is a presentation-quality 3-D animation.

Through visualization, the Virtual Reality Toolbox provides insight into the dynamic systems that you model in Simulink. You can use these viewing capabilities in automotive, aerospace, communication, biological, and mechanical applications.



Torque feedback steering wheel test bench for steer-by-wire rapid control prototyping, created at DLR Oberpfaffenhofen (German Aerospace Center, Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, that employs the Virtual Reality Toolbox viewer. Click on image to see enlarged view.

Key Features

• Links signals from Simulink to virtual reality worlds to control properties such as the motion of virtual reality objects
• Includes tools for viewing and building virtual reality worlds
• Provides client/server architecture to enable collaboration among multiple locations
• Produces video recordings for viewing through AVI and WRL file formats
• Interacts with real-time simulations
• Includes MATLAB functions for retrieving and changing virtual world properties
• Connects to common hardware input devices, including joysticks, Magellan SpaceMouse, and Logitech SpaceBall 5000