Collaborative Virtual Assembly Operation Simulation and Its Application

Nowadays complex products such as automobiles and ships are usually developed at geographically dispersed locations, which bring the difficulties for component model verification and assembly process evaluation. Collaborative virtual assembly (CVA) environment with VR technology is a good solution. However, the existing collaborative environments have many disadvantages in data management, reliability, function, etc, and furthermore they are difficult to meet the higher requirement of the users. In this paper, with the aim of solving the problems of model verification and assembly evaluation, two implement schemes for CVA system are analyzed, key technologies are discussed and prototype systems are developed. Finally, some applications of CVA are given to verify the scheme above.