Interactive Visual Steering –- Rapid Visual Prototyping of a
Common Rail Injection System
Kresimir Matkovic, Denis Gracanin, Mario Jelovic, Helwig Hauser
ARTICLE,
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG),
Oct, 2008
Abstract
Interactive steering with visualization has been a common goal
of the visualization research community for twenty years, but it is rarely
ever realized in practice. In this paper we describe a successful realization
of a tightly coupled steering loop, integrating new simulation technology and
interactive visual analysis in a prototyping environment for automotive industry
system design. Due to increasing pressure on car manufacturers to meet new
emission regulations, to improve efficiency, and to reduce noise, both simulation
and visualization are pushed to their limits. Automotive system components, such as
the powertrain system or the injection system, have an increasing number of
parameters, and new design approaches are required. It is no longer possible to
optimize such a system solely based on experience or forward optimization. By
coupling interactive visualization with the simulation back-end (computational
steering), it is now possible to quickly prototype a new system, starting from a
non-optimized initial prototype and the corresponding simulation model. The
prototyping continues through the refinement of the simulation model, of the
simulation parameters and through trial-and-error attempts to an optimized solution.
The ability to early see the first results from a multidimensional simulation space --
thousands of simulations are run for a multidimensional variety of input parameters --
and to quickly go back into the simulation and request more runs in particular parameter
regions of interest significantly improves the prototyping process and provides a deeper
understanding of the system behavior. The excellent results which we achieved for the
common rail injection system strongly suggest that our approach has a great potential of
being generalized to other, similar scenarios.
Published
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG)
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BibTeX
@article{matkovic08visualSteering,
author = {Kresimir Matkovic and Denis Gracanin and Mario Jelovic and Helwig Hauser},
title = {Interactive Visual Steering –- Rapid Visual Prototyping of a
Common Rail Injection System},
year = {2008},
abstract = {Interactive steering with visualization has been a common goal
of the visualization research community for twenty years, but it is rarely
ever realized in practice. In this paper we describe a successful realization
of a tightly coupled steering loop, integrating new simulation technology and
interactive visual analysis in a prototyping environment for automotive industry
system design. Due to increasing pressure on car manufacturers to meet new
emission regulations, to improve efficiency, and to reduce noise, both simulation
and visualization are pushed to their limits. Automotive system components, such as
the powertrain system or the injection system, have an increasing number of
parameters, and new design approaches are required. It is no longer possible to
optimize such a system solely based on experience or forward optimization. By
coupling interactive visualization with the simulation back-end (computational
steering), it is now possible to quickly prototype a new system, starting from a
non-optimized initial prototype and the corresponding simulation model. The
prototyping continues through the refinement of the simulation model, of the
simulation parameters and through trial-and-error attempts to an optimized solution.
The ability to early see the first results from a multidimensional simulation space --
thousands of simulations are run for a multidimensional variety of input parameters --
and to quickly go back into the simulation and request more runs in particular parameter
regions of interest significantly improves the prototyping process and provides a deeper
understanding of the system behavior. The excellent results which we achieved for the
common rail injection system strongly suggest that our approach has a great potential of
being generalized to other, similar scenarios.},
month = {Oct},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG)},
event = {IEEE Visualization 2008},
location = {Columbus, Ohio, USA},
volume = {14},
number = {6},
pages = {1699--1706},
URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2008.145},
}
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