Virtual reality techniques applied to computer integrated manufacturing
Résumé
After a glance at the ARéVi project, we present one of its possible fields of application : a virtual NC machine tool. In order to simulate, and then to teleinspect and teleoperate a real NC machine, we wish to develop and use some virtual reality techniques. All this work is to be running on a SGI workstation Indigo. Here, we mainly talk about simulation, because it is the most important step (because the first one) toward teleinspection and teleoperation. We present the most important problems we have encountered to obtain a virtual machine from a real one, and all the work to realize in order to authorize its simulation.