Crcd: Low Power Wireless Communications For Virtual Environments Course Integration
Robert John Weber, Bernard Lwakabamba, Julie A. Dickerson, Carolina Cruz‐Neira, Diane T. Rover · 2020
This project combines research from the areas of wireless communications, low-power embedded systems, virtual environments, and human factors in an interdisciplinary program.Education in the hardware and software of virtual reality (VR) systems serves as a test-bed for training engineers in a truly interdisciplinary environment.The ultimate goal of this project is to create a set of integrated courses that cover real-time software, embedded systems, design of virtual environments, and design of practical wireless devices.The research part uses the C6, a threedimensional, full-immersion, synthetic environment in the Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC) at Iowa State.The research goal is to design and implement low power wireless communications systems for wearable sensor networks in virtual environments.The first part of the design document introduces the C6 virtual environment and the problems with the existing system.Next, common C6 usage scenarios are described to explain how to students how their work fits into the larger problem.Appendices to the document give the specific requirements for different parts of the system such as the wireless subsystem and the software engineering.Figure 2 shows the structure of this document.