Virtual engineering: Methods and tools

Abstract This paper presents an overview of actual approaches in virtual engineering, mainly from the design point of view. The evolution of the market has necessitated the reduction of time-to-market, essentially because the product life cycle is shorter, but also because it is very important to proceed more rapidly from an initial conception to a mass production object. As a result of newly evolved software DOI: environments, knowledge-based systems, and product data management, processes for integrated design and manufacturing for new products have emerged. Owing to this evolution of virtual engineering technologies, it has become possible today to validate parts representative of mass production within a very short time. This paper provides an overview of the actual methods and tools in all the components that affect the speed and efficiency of product development, in particular all the possibilities available to the designer, from the earliest stages of a product's life cycle.

[1]  F.-L. Krause,et al.  Haptic Interaction with Non-rigid Materials for Assembly and Dissassembly in Product Development , 2001 .

[2]  Gunther Reinhart,et al.  A System for Three-Dimensional Layout Planning of Automated and Manual Assembly Systems , 1998 .

[3]  Rajit Gadh,et al.  Virtual and Augmented Reality Technologies for Product Realization , 1999 .

[4]  Chee Kai Chua,et al.  A study of the state-of-the-art rapid prototyping technologies , 1998 .

[5]  David Zeltzer,et al.  Three Dimensional Visual Display Systems for Virtual Environments , 1992, Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments.

[6]  Alain Bernard,et al.  Analysis and Validation of 3D Laser Sensor Scanning Process , 1999 .

[7]  Marc Levoy,et al.  A volumetric method for building complex models from range images , 1996, SIGGRAPH.

[8]  Alain Bernard,et al.  Knowledge-Based Environment for the Generation of Rapid Product Development Processes , 2000 .

[9]  M. Goodale.  Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate , 1995 .

[10]  Fouad Bennis,et al.  Périphériques haptiques et simulation d'objets, de robots et de mannequins dans un environnement de CAO-Robotique : eM-Virtual Desktop , 2007, ArXiv.

[11]  Andrea Gatto,et al.  Benchmarking of Rapid Prototyping Techniques in Terms of Dimensional Accuracy and Surface Finish , 1995 .

[12]  Ren C. Luo,et al.  Telecontrol of rapid prototyping machine via Internet for automated telemanufacturing , 1999, Proceedings 1999 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Cat. No.99CH36288C).

[13]  Philippe Coiffet,et al.  Virtual Reality Technology , 2003, Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments.

[14]  Anath Fischer,et al.  Tele-Design for Manufacturing , 2001 .

[15]  Ming C. Leu,et al.  CREATION OF FREEFORM SOLID MODELS IN VIRTUAL REALITY , 2001 .

[16]  Ram D. Sriram,et al.  A proposed standards‐based approach for representing heterogeneous objects for layered manufacturing , 2002 .

[17]  Preston G. Smith,et al.  Developing products in half the time , 1995 .

[18]  Alain Bernard.  Reverse engineering for rapid product development: a state of the art , 1999, Optics East.

[19]  Linda M. Wills,et al.  Reverse Engineering , 1996, Springer US.

[20]  Ralph R. Martin,et al.  Reverse engineering of geometric models - an introduction , 1997, Comput. Aided Des..

[21]  Michael J. Bailey,et al.  Tele-Manufacturing: rapid prototyping on the Internet , 1995, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.

[22]  F.-L. Krause,et al.  Product Modelling , 2007 .

[23]  Jean-Francis Balaguer,et al.  VENUS , 1996, SIGGRAPH 1996.

[24]  Anath Fischer,et al.  New Trends in Rapid Product Development , 2002 .

[25]  Fumihiko Kimura,et al.  Development of Strategies for Improving Product Development Performace , 1997 .

[26]  Alain Bernard.  Computer-aided process planning for rapid prototyping , 1999, Optics East.

[27]  Baining Guo,et al.  Surface reconstruction: from points to splines , 1997, Comput. Aided Des..

[28]  Matthias Eck,et al.  Automatic reconstruction of B-spline surfaces of arbitrary topological type , 1996, SIGGRAPH.

[29]  A. Kheddar,et al.  A haptic prototype for the simulations of aeronautics mounting/unmounting operations , 2001, Proceedings 10th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. ROMAN 2001 (Cat. No.01TH8591).