A PC Cluster High-Fidelity Mobile Crane Simulator

Jiung-yao  Huang; Chung-yun  Gau

doi:10.6180/jase.2002.5.1.02

A PC Cluster High-Fidelity Mobile Crane Simulator

Computer Science and Information Engineering

Jiung-yao Huang This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.¹ and Chung-yun Gau This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.²

¹Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering Tamkang University Tamsui, Taipei, Taiwan 251, R.O.C.
²Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Council of Labor Affairs, Executive Yuan, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Received: June 22, 2001
Accepted: February 7, 2002
Publication Date: March 1, 2002

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ABSTRACT

The mobile crane simulator is a project sponsored by Employment and Vocational Training Administration, Council of Labor Affair, Executive Yuan, Taiwan, to build a safe device for training and licensing. This paper presents the principle and mechanism to build a high-fidelity interactive visual simulator on a cluster of PCs. The implemented mobile crane simulator uses the peer-to-peer architecture with the push and pull mechanism to achieve the parallelism among distributed tasks. A distributive simulation socket, called Communication Backbone(CB), is adopted to integrate the functional tasks of the mobile crane simulator in a PC clustering environment. With CB, tasks of the simulated mobile crane are executed as standalone applications and seamlessly communicate with each other through CB. Finally, the system response rate of the implemented mobile crane simulator achieves 16 times per second which is larger than human acceptable perception rate as suggested by the human factors studies.

Keywords: Virtual Reality, Interactive Visual Simulation, Cluster, Mobile Crane, Motion Platform

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