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New developments in simulation-based harbour crane training

Miguel ÁNgel GamónIgnacio García–ferná NdezMarta Pla–castellsRafael J. Martínez–durá

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Hardware architectureEngineeringRealitat virtualbusiness.industryApplied MathematicsDriving simulatorPhysical systemVirtual realityComputer Science ApplicationsInteractive simulationSimulació per ordinadorModeling and SimulationHarbourSystems engineeringHoist (device)businessSimulation basedcomputerSimulationcomputer.programming_language

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This paper presents the efforts that have been made during the development of a set of harbour training simulators to improve their quality. The paper focuses on two main research lines: the improvement of complex physical systems involved in the simulation and the analysis of hardware architecture solutions. Cable-based hoist systems and bulk materials are systems present in different harbour equipment and are usually simulated with poor quality due to their complexity. In this paper physics-based models for the interactive simulation of these systems are proposed and applied to real cases. Also, different hardware simulator architectures are analysed and different approaches are proposed to the problem of choosing the devices for a simulator.

https://doi.org/10.1504/ijspm.2011.048009