TY - GEN
T1 - Interactive virtual factory for design of a shopfloor using single cluster analysis
AU - Lefort, L.
AU - Kesavadas, T.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1998 IEEE.
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - An interactive virtual factory testbed was developed as a part of a research to explore the applications of virtual environments (VE) in the area of manufacturing automation. This fully immersive factory built with special attention to details consists of a set of modular machines that a designer can drag and place in the factory to study issues such as plant layout, clusters and part flow analysis. This paper further discusses several computational issues of developing such factories including the scene graph structures, frame based intersection detection and visual realism for creating a reliable virtual interface. Finally, a single cluster analysis algorithm is implemented as an example of applying traditional factory design methods in developing virtual factories of the future.
AB - An interactive virtual factory testbed was developed as a part of a research to explore the applications of virtual environments (VE) in the area of manufacturing automation. This fully immersive factory built with special attention to details consists of a set of modular machines that a designer can drag and place in the factory to study issues such as plant layout, clusters and part flow analysis. This paper further discusses several computational issues of developing such factories including the scene graph structures, frame based intersection detection and visual realism for creating a reliable virtual interface. Finally, a single cluster analysis algorithm is implemented as an example of applying traditional factory design methods in developing virtual factories of the future.
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U2 - 10.1109/ROBOT.1998.676395
DO - 10.1109/ROBOT.1998.676395
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0031637126
SN - 078034300X
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
SP - 266
EP - 271
BT - Proceedings - 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 1998
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 15th IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 1998
Y2 - 16 May 1998 through 20 May 1998
ER -