Kineo CAM Released Collision Detector

By DE Editors

Kineo Collision Detector (KCD) from Kineo Computer Aided Motion (Kineo CAM) is a high-efficiency collision detector from Kineo CAM (Labege, France). It comes as a software library, which allows an easy integration through its C++ programming API.

Using 3D geometrical data, KCD compares two lists of geometrical objects and quickly returns a series of results such as interferences and distances.

In digital 3D mockup, KCD performs static or dynamic clash analysis. For robotic monitoring, KCD provides continuous collision avoidance.

In May 2004 Kineo CAM announced its version V1.5 with a 50 percent improvement of performance in response time.

Consecutively several software editors like TECNOMATIX and UGS PLM (both now part of Siemens PLM), Seemage (now part of the brand 3DVia from Dassault Systemes), DELMIA (another brand of Dassault Systemes) adopted KCD in CAD/CAM software products for automatic path planning. And earlier this year, CYBERNETIX integrated KCD into CyxPro V2.0 its software platform for graphical monitoring of remotely operated systems.

With KCD V2.04.6 Kineo CAM announces another breakthrough performance in collision detection by a mean improvement of 22 percent in response time or a memory consumption decrease of up to 90 percent. Tests of performance show that KCD V2.04.6 can perform dynamic collision detections as fast as 0.8 milliseconds on large 3D models of more than 3 million polygons.

For details, contact Kineo Computer Aided Motion (Kineo CAM).

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.