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Real-time Simulation of a Mobile Machine
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Real-time simulation is becoming a useful tool to improve products and efficiency in product development. Being able to perform real-time dynamic analysis on a virtual prototype helps engineers improve products faster, with a reduction in the associated costs. The possibility to analyse complex systems using powerful software that enable the creation of simpler models which can accurately represent these systems, allows the use of tools to perform numerical integrations and dynamic analysis in a faster, simpler, and easier way.
With the growth of real-time simulation, gamified simulations are also improving and becoming a tool for product development. The goal of turning mechanical simulations into game-like environments is to encourage users to test products, providing important information to manufacturers, and making the product development to be more customer oriented.
This thesis explores two topics. The first part consists of developing a dynamic analysis of a forklift, using the existing theoretical definitions and implementing them using Mevea software. The system’s behaviour will be studied by imposing different conditions and comparing the outcomes (differences in the behaviour of the machine). The second part aims at using the developed model to create a gamified simulation. The simulation should become user-friendly with a goal and tasks to be performed, encouraging users to test the created model. All this is achieved by adding different game elements. Ultimately, the goal of the simulation is to obtain information from the users about their experience, to improve the model and, consequently, the forklift, to suit the needs of the users.
The goal of this thesis is to understand the benefits of real-time dynamic analysis, as well as to evaluate gamified simulations as a tool for engineers to get important information during product development.
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real-time simulation dynamic analysis gamified simulation game elements users