Interactive Visual Steering - Rapid Visual Prototyping of a Common Rail Injection System

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, starti...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: TVCG
• Authors: Kresimir Matkovic, Denis Gracanin, Mario Jelovic, Helwig Hauser
• Keywords: Injection System, Simulation, Simulation Model, TVCG 2008