New realities in aircraft design and manufacture

Author

Sims, Dave

Volume

14

Issue

2

fYear

1994

fDate

3/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

91

Abstract

Considers how Boeing Computer Services in Seattle is developing two real-time applications-one in virtual reality, the other in what the company calls augmented reality, aimed at putting more information directly in front of the engineers designing aircraft and the manufacturing workers who build them. Boeing´s virtual reality project plans to import aircraft CAD data to a VR environment where engineers in helmet-mounted displays can explore the aircraft long before any manufacturing begins. Boeing (like other aircraft manufacturers) have switched to performing aircraft checks on a CAD system, moving a human figure on-screen to check access.<>

Keywords

CAD/CAM; aerospace industry; aircraft; production engineering computing; virtual reality; Boeing Computer Services; CAD system; aircraft CAD data; aircraft checks; aircraft design; aircraft manufacture; aircraft manufacturers; augmented reality; helmet-mounted displays; real-time applications; virtual reality; Aerospace engineering; Aircraft manufacture; Aircraft propulsion; Augmented reality; Computer aided manufacturing; Data engineering; Design automation; Design engineering; Displays; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/38.267487

Filename

267487