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SANTOS®:

The Virtual Soldier

Why the Virtual Soldier?

Physical

prototypes

In 2005….

The Santos® Model

Engineering

Gaming

Health/Medicine

Background

Hollywood

@ Iowa

Santos and Sophia

Santos®

Joint Displacement only

Developing behavior: AI

Santos: touch the sphere!

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Male knee flexion with 40lb loaded walking simulation

Understanding limits of Human Strengths

Santos has Strength & Fatigue

Modeling physiology

The mathematics of physics

NBC clothing modeling

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Impact of shock wave

Compression zone

0.54 ms

Disruptive tension zone

Trace of shock wave

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Vertical section through lower leg

FE model

lower leg model protection

plate

0.2 ms 0.3 ms

Impact of shock wave

Compression zone

0.54 ms

Disruptive tension zone

Trace of shock wave

0.7 ms

Vertical section through lower leg

FE model

lower leg model protection

plate

Armor-IED-ballistics

Thermal Considerations

Example Research Programs

Example Program: US ArmyTesting armor

Testing the physics of rides

Virtual Testing of Medical DevicesTesting medical devices

Pulse

generator

Patients who qualify for neurostimulation therapy

report a 50 to 70% reduction in overall pain

Center for the Intrepid

Fitting prosthetic devices

Example Program: USCAR

Test warfighting cockpits

TALOS: Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit

Testing exoskeletons

A proud Iowa team

US Marines: Lighten the LoadLightening the load

Lightening the load

2.511551 2.426401 2.298920 2.089685 1.932893

2.383437 2.283680 2.191515 2.025596 1.896856

Sophia

51 kg

Sophia

60 kg

Height (m)

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Backpack90 Kg (198 lb)

Backpack

100 Kg (220 lb)

Backpack

Lightening the load

• Sports

• Injury prediction

• Intelligence

• Aging Santos

• Child Santos

The futureThe Future

Thank you!

Explain sequencer

The Task Sequencer

2.180130 2.174497 2.119108 2.015748 1.946092

2.498672 2.401209 2.310071 2.131725 1.990143

Santos

79 kg

Man3

111 kg

Height (m)

Santos™

Areas of Research

Physics/Dynamics

Intelligence

Strength and Fatigue

Human motion

Balance and stability

Clothing

Physiology

Injury

Validation!

Women in combat

Introducing Santos® …

A Virtual Human

Predicts Behavior

Physics-Based

Realistic

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