Semi-Immersive Virtual Turbine Engine Simulation System
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Mustufa H. Abidi
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Abdulrahman M. Al-Ahmari
Abstract
The design and verification of assembly operations is essential for planning product production operations. Recently, virtual prototyping has witnessed tremendous progress, and has reached a stage where current environments enable rich and multi-modal interaction between designers and models through stereoscopic visuals, surround sound, and haptic feedback. The benefits of building and using Virtual Reality (VR) models in assembly process verification are discussed in this paper. In this paper, we present the virtual assembly (VA) of an aircraft turbine engine. The assembly parts and sequences are explained using a virtual reality design system. The system enables stereoscopic visuals, surround sounds, and ample and intuitive interaction with developed models. A special software architecture is suggested to describe the assembly parts and assembly sequence in VR. A collision detection mechanism is employed that provides visual feedback to check the interference between components. The system is tested for virtual prototype and assembly sequencing of a turbine engine. We show that the developed system is comprehensive in terms of VR feedback mechanisms, which include visual, auditory, tactile, as well as force feedback. The system is shown to be effective and efficient for validating the design of assembly, part design, and operations planning.
Funding statement: This Project was funded by the National Plan for Science, Technology, and Innovation (MAARIFAH), King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, Award Number (12-INF2573-02).
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- Frontmatter
- Jet Engines – The New Masters of Advanced Flight Control
- Prediction of Film Cooling Effectiveness on a Gas Turbine Blade Leading Edge Using ANN and CFD
- Sustainability Metrics of a Small Scale Turbojet Engine
- Coupling Network Computing Applications in Air-cooled Turbine Blades Optimization
- Performance Enhancement of One and Two-Shaft Industrial Turboshaft Engines Topped With Wave Rotors
- Semi-Immersive Virtual Turbine Engine Simulation System
- A Novel Modeling Method for Aircraft Engine Using Nonlinear Autoregressive Exogenous (NARX) Models Based on Wavelet Neural Networks
- Defining the Ecological Coefficient of Performance for an Aircraft Propulsion System
- Investigation on the Accuracy of Superposition Predictions of Film Cooling Effectiveness
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