a private company established in montreal in 2001 . cm labs is the developer of the vortex software simulation platform . the vortex platform is composed of applications for creating interactive vehicle and mechanical equipment simulations in virtual environments . 1 2 vortex simulates rigid body dynamics 3 collision detection contact determination and dynamic reactions . cm labs also manufactures crane and heavy equipment simulators based on vortex technology . 4 5 history edit cm labs was created when the management of mathengine canada inc. purchased a portion of the business from mathengine plc the parent company in the uk . mathengine canada inc. was originally the research and development team responsible for creating the karma physics simulation engine for computer games . cm labs shifted its focus away from gaming to the visual simulation for training vst market targeting vortex at robotics and heavy equipment operator training in both commercial and military applications . cm labs clients include fmc schilling robotics irobot honda research l 3 lockheed martin nasa and carnegie mellon university . 6 vortex has been under active development ever since the initial launch of the software in 2001 . references edit solving the realism challenges of next generation heavy equipment earth moving and military simulations military technology special issue 2013 using simulation to solve the challenges of offshore operations scandinavian oil gas magazine no. 5 6 2013 ai ia 2003 advances in artificial intelligence 8th congress of the italian association for artificial intelligence pisa italy september 23 26 2003 proceedings amedeo cappelli franco turini eds . faster training simulation is the goal of new vortex software crane & rigging hot line nov 2013 montreal simulators prove popular with contracting firm and railway crane and hoist canada may june 2013 about cm labs external links edit cm labs simulations homepage retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cm labs simulations & oldid 667639276 categories companies based in montrealsoftware companies of canadasimulation software navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 19 june 2015 at 15 03 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view