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BikeVR
(2020)
While becoming more and more aware of the ongoing climate change, eco-friendly means of transport for all citizens are moving further into focus. In order to be able to implement specific measures, it is necessary to better understand and emphasize sustainable transportation like walking and cycling through focused research. When developing novel traffic concepts and urban spaces for non-motorized traffic participants like bicycles and pedestrians, traffic and urban planning must be focused on their needs. To provide rare qualitative factors (such as stress, the perception of time and attractiveness of the environment) in this context, we present an audiovisual VR bicycle simulator which allows the user to cycle through a virtual urban environment by physically pedaling and also steering. Virtual Reality (VR) is a suitable tool in this context, as study participants find identical and almost freely definable (virtual) urban spaces with adjustable traffic scenarios. Our preliminary prototype proved to be promising and will be further optimized and evaluated.
A shorter product life cycle and therefore, reduced
project duration is the major success factor for machinery and
plant engineering today. One use case for Virtual Commission-
ing (VC) is the early software test without an existing plant.
The primary effort of VC lies in the manual creation of the
plant model. There are various simulation tools with different
advantages available. Selecting one tool has consequences for
the whole engineering process. The exchange of models across
different tools is not possible or discouraged by the respective
vendors due to various reasons. This paper describes a concept to
exchange behavior models via the table-based import interfaces
for an automated model generation within common simulation
tools. The concept utilizes an approach to exchange the behavior
of components using the vendor-neutral and standardized pro-
gramming language PLCopenXML containing all IEC 61131-3
programming languages. This removes the main obstacle for a
broader industrial application of VC, as it minimizes the manual
effort for creating and exchanging behavior models through the
use of standardized library elements and existing interfaces.