Owing to the numerous part models and massive datasets used in automobile assembly design, virtual assembly software cannot simulate a whole vehicle smoothly in real time. For this reason, implementing a new virtual assembly environment for massive complex datasets would be a significant achievement. The paper aims to focus on this problem. A new system named 'Grid-enabled collaborative virtual assembly environment' (GCVAE) is proposed in the paper, and it comprises three parts: a private grid-based support platform running on an inner network of enterprise; a service-based parallel rendering framework with a sort-last structure; and a multi-user collaborative virtual assembly environment. These components would aggregate the idle resources in an enterprise to support assembly simulation with a large complex scene of whole vehicle. The system prototype proposed in the paper has been implemented. The following simulations show that it can support a complex scene in a real-time mode by using existing hardware and software, and can promote the efficient usage of enterprise resources. Using the GCVAE, it is possible to aggregate the idle resources in an enterprise to run assembly simulations of a whole automobile with massively complex scenes, thus observably reducing fault occurrence rates in future manufacturing. The paper introduces a new grid-enabled methodology into research on collaborative virtual assembly system which can make the best use of idle resources in the enterprise to support assembly simulations with massively complex product models. A video-stream-based method was used to implement the system; this enables designers to participate ubiquitously in the simulation to evaluate the assembly of the whole automobile without hardware limitations.


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    Titel :

    Grid-enabled collaborative virtual assembly environment


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Gitterbefähigtes, kollaboratives, virtuelles Montageumfeld


    Beteiligte:
    Hu, Yong (Autor:in) / Wu, Dianliang (Autor:in) / Fan, Xiumin (Autor:in) / Zhen, Xijin (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Assembly Automation ; 30 , 4 ; 352-364


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2010


    Format / Umfang :

    13 Seiten, 12 Bilder, 15 Quellen




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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