Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality in Industry: The 2nd Sino-German Workshop

Cover......Page 1
Virtual Reality & Augmented\rReality in Industry......Page 4
ISBN 9783642173752......Page 5
Preface......Page 6
Table of Contents\r......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
1 Virtual Prototyping in the Product Innovation Process......Page 16
2 Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR)......Page 20
3 Up-to-date Applications of VR and AR in Industry......Page 22
3.1 Composing Mechatronic Systems in VR......Page 23
3.2 Virtual Prototyping of Headlight Systems......Page 25
3.3 AR in Vehicle Prototyping......Page 27
4 From Mechatronics to Self-Optimization......Page 29
5 Design of Advanced Mechatronic Systems......Page 33
5.1 Domain-Spanning Specification of the Principle Solution......Page 34
5.2 Managing the Development Process......Page 36
6.1 AR-based Visual Analysis of the Convoy Behavior......Page 38
6.2 Realization of the Augmented Reality System......Page 42
6.3 VR-based Visual Analysis of the RailCab Undercarriage......Page 43
6.4 Test Bed of the Undercarriage......Page 44
6.5 Virtual Reality Application for Visualization......Page 45
6.6 Visual Analysis of the Behavior......Page 47
References......Page 50
1 Introduction......Page 54
2 Simulator Applications in Space......Page 56
2.1 The Simulation of the International Space Station......Page 57
2.2 The Virtual Human......Page 58
2.3 The Concept of Anthropomorphic Multi-agent-Systems......Page 59
3 The Virtual Forest......Page 61
3.1 Forest Planning......Page 62
3.2 “Technical Production” in the Forest......Page 63
3.3 Advanced Working Machine Simulation......Page 66
References......Page 67
1 Introduction......Page 70
2.1 CVA......Page 71
2.2 Grid......Page 72
3 Function Requirements of Product Collaborative Assembly Simulation......Page 73
4.1.1 Large Scale Scene Rendering......Page 75
4.1.2 High Effective Collision Detection Method......Page 78
4.2.1 Product Representation for Collaborative Virtual Assembly......Page 80
4.2.2 Virtual Assembly Tool Modeling and Operation......Page 81
4.3.1 Acquisition and Pre-process of Product Data......Page 82
4.3.3 Data Protection......Page 83
4.4.1 Virtual User Models......Page 84
5.1.1 An HLA/RTI -based Collaborative Virtual Assembly......Page 86
5.1.2 A Solution Based on Grid......Page 87
5.2.2 Create Collaborative Virtual Environment......Page 89
5.2.3 Co-operating Assembly the Car in Virtual Environment......Page 90
5.3.2 Preparation for Simulation Initialization......Page 91
5.3.3 Simulation Task Initialization......Page 92
6 Conclusion and Future Work......Page 93
References......Page 94
Integration of Realtime Ray Tracing into Interactive Virtual Reality Systems......Page 98
1 Introduction......Page 99
2 The Realtime Ray Tracing Engine “RTfact”......Page 100
4 The Distribution Framework “URay”......Page 101
5 Integrating Ray Tracing into a VR System......Page 102
6 Conclusions and Future Work......Page 103
References......Page 104
1 Instantreality VR System......Page 106
1.1 Clustering and Distributed Rendering......Page 107
1.3 Interactive VR with Multi-touch......Page 108
2 Instantreality AR system......Page 109
2.1 Robust and Markerless Tracking......Page 110
2.2 Augmented Reality Embedded Systems......Page 111
3 Conclusion......Page 112
References......Page 113
1 Introduction......Page 116
2.1 A Hybrid Visualization Environment......Page 118
2.2 Scheduling Techniques......Page 120
2.3 Interactive Particle Tracing......Page 122
2.4 Interactive Feature Definition......Page 123
3 VR-based Process Exploration......Page 125
3.1 Distributed Simulation Platform......Page 127
3.2 Meta Data Model......Page 128
3.4 Explorative Analysis of Multiple Data Sets......Page 130
4 Conclusion......Page 131
References......Page 132
1 Introduction......Page 136
2 Digital Olympic Museum......Page 137
2.1 System Structure......Page 138
2.2 Storytelling in DOM......Page 140
2.3 Modeling and Rendering of DOM......Page 141
2.4 Experimental Results......Page 142
3.2 Typical Prototypes......Page 143
4 Conclusion and Future Work......Page 145
References......Page 146
1 Introduction......Page 148
2.1 Architecture of Full Mission Navigation Simulation System......Page 149
2.2 Ship Hydrodynamic Mathematic Model......Page 152
2.3 Visual System......Page 153
2.4 Mimic Ship Bridge and Equipments......Page 155
3 Conclusion......Page 156
References......Page 157
1.1 Trends of digital technology......Page 162
1.2 Background for building up virtual assembly environment......Page 163
1.4 Three levels for assembly process oriented evaluation......Page 164
3 Key points for implementing virtual assembly environment......Page 165
3.1 VR application oriented general software development platform......Page 166
3.2 Model descriptions in virtual assembly environment......Page 167
3.3 Virtual assembly operation based on constraint and degree of freedom analysis......Page 170
3.4 Multiple interaction mode in virtual assembly environment......Page 171
3.5 Ergonomic evaluation for user’s assembly operation......Page 172
4 Applications......Page 173
References......Page 175
1 Motivation......Page 178
3 Creating Virtual Models from Existing Data......Page 179
4 Functional Tests on the Virtual Model......Page 180
6 Operator Training in the Virtual Environment......Page 182
References......Page 183
1 Virtual Engineering vs. Virtual Reality......Page 186
3 Application Status of Virtual Reality in Chinese Automotive Industry......Page 188
4 Virtual Reality Boosting Car Development......Page 190
5 More VR Technologies Required by Chinese Automotive Industry......Page 191
6 Approaches for VR Technology Better Satisfying the Needs of Automotive Industry......Page 192
7 Conclusion......Page 193
References......Page 194
1 Introduction......Page 196
2 Initial Business Case as Decision Basis......Page 197
3 Key Success Factors for Introducing New Technologies......Page 198
4 Choosing the Right Technology......Page 199
5.1 Virtual Reality for Training of Complex Products......Page 201
5.2 Virtual Reality for Process Visualisation......Page 202
6 Summary......Page 203
References......Page 204
1 Introduction......Page 206
2.2 Interaction......Page 207
2.3 Software......Page 208
4 Immersive Selling......Page 209
5 Immersive Teaching......Page 210
6 Technology......Page 211
References......Page 212
Index......Page 214