A Simulator for the Operation and Maintenance of the PRIDE Facility

This study introduces a remote simulator to verify and validate an operability and maintenance ability of a remote manipulator in a pyroprocess facility at a design stage. To evaluate an operability and maintenance ability of the devices, it needs various modules. This article describes a system architecture which illustrates an interface between its modules. In nuclear industry, an advanced modeling and simulation technology which can simulate various phenomena by using a digital mockup has been increased. Even several research and development in order to improve the efficiency of a remote operation in the ACPF digital mock-up were carried out, these research results have a lot of limitations in order to apply it to real world. Especially simulations that depend on 3D graphics are limited to the analysis of an accessibility and operability of a manipulator. To solve these limitations, this article proposes a scheme to enable an operator to improve a remote manipulation by using a haptic device which is a force feed-back device