ISBN 9783843947787

978-3-8439-4778-7, Reihe Informatik

Moritz Cohrs
New Methodologies for Automotive PLM by Integrating 3D CAD and Virtual Reality into Function-oriented Development

150 Seiten, Dissertation Universität Bremen (2021), Hardcover, A5

Zusammenfassung / Abstract

Today, a primary challenge within the automotive industry is the high and further increasing complexity of modern vehicles, caused by the growing numbers of vehicle functions, electronics and software. Considering this challenge, the approach of a function-oriented development extends the traditional component-oriented development by focusing an interdisciplinary development of vehicle functions as mechatronic and cyber-physical systems and it is an important measure to master the increasing product and development complexity. In addition, technologies like virtual reality, computer-aided design (CAD) and virtual prototyping offer largely established tools for the automotive industry in order to handle different challenges across product lifecycle management. So far, however, the promising potentials of 3D virtual reality methods have not yet been evaluated in the particular context of an automotive function-oriented development. Therefore, this research focuses on the question if and how 3D virtual reality methods can improve relevant workflows and generally streamline a function-oriented development. To address this research goal, a prototypical implementation is developed which is based on a consistent integration of vehicle function architectural data with 3D CAD data. In particular, a primary contribution of this thesis is the research and development of novel, function-oriented 3D methods which are enabled by this kind of data integration. Based on the prototypical implementation, these methods are designed, developed and evaluated. With the application on different automotive use cases it is shown that these novel 3D methods provide a significant benefit for function-oriented development and comparable approaches to systems engineering. Moreover, proposals are provided on how these methods can be integrated into prospective 3D tools in order to solve relevant function-oriented tasks much more efficiently in the future.