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A method for interactively composing mechatronic prototypes in virtual environment

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  • Qing Shen
  • Michael Grafe
  • Jochen Bauch
  • Rafael Radkowski

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Virtual Prototyping (VP) technology has been widely used to reduce the cost in the development of modern products. However, a typical mechatronic product includes the components from different engineering domains and its complexity keeps on increasing. Therefore, it becomes a great challenge to efficiently achieve VP of mechatronic products. A solution presented in this paper chooses Solution Elements (SE) as the basic design component, which encapsulates various engineering expertise. In addition, a conceptual model of ports and joints are created to compose those virtual components into mechatronic prototypes in a virtual environment. To reveal the achievement of our solution, this paper will concretely explicate (1) the definition of the conceptual models of SE, ports and joints; (2) the procedure and the matching guide in doing the system composition; (3) some interaction and visualisation issues to SE, ports and joints and (4) how team work is supported in the implementation work.

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  • Qing Shen & Michael Grafe & Jochen Bauch & Rafael Radkowski, 2007. "A method for interactively composing mechatronic prototypes in virtual environment," International Journal of Product Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 4(6), pages 587-604.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpdev:v:4:y:2007:i:6:p:587-604
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