A virtual environment for simulating manufacturing operations in 3D

Author

Chawla, Ravi ; Banerjee, Amarnath

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Eng., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

991

Abstract

The paper presents a method for simulating basic manufacturing operations (unload, load, process, move, and store) in a 3D virtual environment. The virtual environment provides a framework for representing a facility layout in 3D, which encapsulates the static and the dynamic behavior of the manufacturing system. The 3D manufacturing objects in the facility are mapped with the nodes in the framework. The framework, a modified scenegraph structure, is a tree structure which can be manipulated by updating the parent-child relationships and the transformation matrix to simulate the basic manufacturing operations. The method can be easily extended to represent more specific manufacturing operations

Keywords

digital simulation; manufacturing data processing; solid modelling; tree data structures; virtual reality; 3D facility layout; 3D manufacturing objects; 3D manufacturing operation simulation; 3D virtual environment; basic manufacturing operations; dynamic behavior; manufacturing operations; manufacturing system; modified scenegraph structure; parent-child relationships; static behavior; transformation matrix; tree structure; Application software; Data structures; Hardware; Industrial engineering; Manufacturing systems; Robustness; Tree data structures; Virtual environment; Virtual manufacturing; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Conference, 2001. Proceedings of the Winter

Conference_Location

Arlington, VA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7307-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSC.2001.977404

Filename

977404