Geodetic Concepts for Collision Avoidance along Industrial Transport and Assembly Lines
Th. Wunderlich, Stefan Auer, Thorsten Schäfer · 2006
Complex and time-critical process chains in industrial production of premium automobiles demand a sophisticated supply chain management and logistics as well as safe and reliable transport systems. Inside a vast factory individual parts (e.g. engines) cover large distances by using electric monorail suspension conveyers. In such an environment, the avoidance of any collision of units with the surrounding area or flexible tools becomes a must. Last minute changes in the product’s design demand a simulation tool to compute dynamic interference checking and to visualize risk zones where problems might occur. This paper gives an overwiev over common interference detection techniques of moving objects among solids and surfaces and finally introduces the self-developed Software KoSimu (Kollisionsprüfungs-Simulator) – a collision check simulator that enables the designer to simulate the movement of a prototype along a known trajectory through the facility and detect collision spots. To acquire the surrounding, conventional methods are usually disturbing the manufacturing process. Therefore, in this research project Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) is applied and the surrounding can be represented by a point cloud. In addition, the input for KoSimu are