Authors:
Dorit Kaufmann
;
Malte Rast
and
Jürgen Roßmann
Affiliation:
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Keyword(s):
Rigid Body Dynamics (RBD), Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Virtual Testbed, Overall System Simulation, Structural Simulation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Application Domains
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Collaborative Systems
;
Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Data Engineering
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Interoperability
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Multiscale Simulation
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics
;
Sensor Networks
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Simulation Tools and Platforms
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Virtual Reality and Graphical Simulations
Abstract:
Modern technical systems consist of various different components acting together. Robotics is a sophisticated example, as mechanical and electrical components interact with the environment. With size and complexity of the system, the susceptibility to errors rises, when the interaction between components fails. Often this happens if a component shows minimal changes to the nominal function. The structural behaviour of a single component is therefore as crucial for the functionality of the whole system as the interaction of all components. Although sophisticated Overall System Simulations exist and create powerful Virtual Testbeds, structural influences are neglected. As the underlying models differ, structural simulations are used as a stand-alone tool and their results are barely considered in the overall picture. In this work an interface was implemented, which is capable to integrate structural simulation automatically into a Virtual Testbed framework.