Development of a simulator based on train performance simulation

초록

Virtual reality technology regards as a useful tool owing to the visualization capability of objects before it is manufactured or constructed. In this research, we developed a simulator for rubber-tired automated guide-way transit based on train performance simulation. An immersive driving scenery of the K-AGT (Korea rubber tired automated guide-way transit) was generated with 4 workstation, 3 channels PDP and a head mounted display device with motion tracking system. With the simulator, train performance characteristics of 3 urban transit system, K-AGT, VAL208 and meglev system that is recently developed in Korea, were analyzed on the railway line scheduled to construct in Korea. The result showed that it could help a designer to have relatively accurate design at an early stage, and to understand the design intuitively.