Integration of Experiment and Simulation for Fluid System Control including Simulator for Laparoscopic Surgery

We focused on the integration of experiment and simulation in fluid system because it will provide a good result by taking the advantages of both approaches. The concept of the integration is proposed and applied to some fluid systems. In this paper, three examples are introduced. First is measurement-integrated simulation which is applied to monitoring the flow in pipelines. It is clear that the calculation time could be much shortened with the proposed method. Second, the virtual simulator for gas governor system is shown. By integrating the experiment and simulation, the characteristics of the governor system can be obtained with a reasonable facility and cost. The last is the master-slave robot system for laparoscopic surgery that can provide sense of force without force sensors. We are using simulation to confirm the motion, to design the controller and to develop the system