TY - GEN
T1 - Collaborative design of material handling systems using distributed virtual reality environments
AU - Kipouridis, Orthodoxos
AU - Roidl, Moritz
AU - Röschinger, Marcus
AU - ten Hompel, Michael
AU - Günthner, Willibald A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - In order to integrate with an upcoming ecosystem of interconnected products and services, adaptive, intelligent and autonomous material handling systems (MHS) are being deployed in modern logistics facilities, enabling them to cope with requirements for high flexibility, configurability and reusability. Recent advances in virtual engineering and virtual reality (VR) technologies offer new possibilities for remote collaboration between companies regarding the design process of MHS, which involves several stakeholders. In this paper, we present a 3D collaborative virtual environment (3DCVE) as part of distributed multi-platform software for supporting MHS design tasks in logistics facilities. We describe how an in-memory data grid technology can be used for the distribution of data and the enabling of consistent user access to the virtual environment (VE). The main focus is put on the use-case of facility layout planning presenting the implementation of approaches regarding user interaction and collaboration.
AB - In order to integrate with an upcoming ecosystem of interconnected products and services, adaptive, intelligent and autonomous material handling systems (MHS) are being deployed in modern logistics facilities, enabling them to cope with requirements for high flexibility, configurability and reusability. Recent advances in virtual engineering and virtual reality (VR) technologies offer new possibilities for remote collaboration between companies regarding the design process of MHS, which involves several stakeholders. In this paper, we present a 3D collaborative virtual environment (3DCVE) as part of distributed multi-platform software for supporting MHS design tasks in logistics facilities. We describe how an in-memory data grid technology can be used for the distribution of data and the enabling of consistent user access to the virtual environment (VE). The main focus is put on the use-case of facility layout planning presenting the implementation of approaches regarding user interaction and collaboration.
KW - 3D collaborative virtual environments
KW - Material handling systems design
KW - Virtual reality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84978802675&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-39907-2_58
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-39907-2_58
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84978802675
SN - 9783319399065
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 609
EP - 620
BT - Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality - 8th International Conference, VAMR 2016 and Held as Part of HCI International 2016, Proceedings
A2 - Lackey, Stephanie
A2 - Shumaker, Randall
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 8th International Conference on Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, VAMR 2016 and Held as Part of 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2016
Y2 - 17 July 2016 through 22 July 2016
ER -