An approach of Multidisciplinary Collaborative Design for Virtual Prototyping in Distributed Network Environment

In this paper, the architecture of collaborative modeling and simulation for the virtual prototyping of complex products is presented primarily. An approach of multidiscipline modeling towards HLA-based distributed collaborative design is studied. A HLA and Web services based framework and its key technologies of the distributed network environment to support multi-discipline modeling and collaborative simulation is discussed. A typical application demonstration of multidisciplinary collaboration simulation for the virtual prototyping of locomotive development is introduced