CREATE 2 Control Room Engineering Advanced Toolkit Environment

Size: px

Start display at page:

Download "CREATE 2 Control Room Engineering Advanced Toolkit Environment"

Sylvia Jefferson
6 years ago
Views:

no/vr Halden Project VR Workshop 2005 Halden Virtual Reality Centre -

1 CREATE 2 Control Room Engineering Advanced Toolkit Environment Presented by Morten Gustavsen Morten.gustavsen@hrp.no - Halden Project VR Workshop 2005 Halden Virtual Reality Centre - Visual Interface Technologies Division Institute for Energy Technology, Halden, Norway

2 Overview CREATE is a suite of tools for designing and testing room layouts Supports an iterative design process with multiple participants and provides version management for tracking design iterations Uses interactive 3D technology to enable designers to rapidly prototype and test designs against guidelines and recommendations

3 Objectives Provide the right tool for the job Designed specifically to support control room design and testing tasks Focus is on user-centred design aspects Documentation of the design process is important Improve communication between members of the design team and between the design team and other parties Encourages design acceptance by enabling all relevant parties to contribute

4 Objectives Enable non CAD/3D experts to design layouts using interactive 3D technology It s not just for technical designers but also for operators, supervisors, human factors specialists, Reduce need for physical mock-ups Virtual mock-ups are sufficiently accurate and can be built and tested quickly Catch potential errors early in the design process by testing early Saves time and money and reduces risk of a sub-optimal design solution

The Design Process Outline of a typical human-centred control room design process with tasks CREATE supports highlighted in yellow: Philosophy Analysis Design Control room philosophy Function and

5 The Design Process Outline of a typical human-centred control room design process with tasks CREATE supports highlighted in yellow: Philosophy Analysis Design Control room philosophy Function and task analysis Preliminary design Detailed design Simulation full-scale simulator Continuous prototyping and mock-up development Operation experience review Concept V&V System performance V&V Integrated system performance V&V

6 User Relationships Administrator Designer Reviewer Add users and data to the system Create a layout Review layout against guidlines Manager System Data Configure project constraints Project Data

7 Toolkit Overview Administrative Tools Project Tools Project Management Tool is used to manage the project environment for individual projects Layout Tool is used to create, modify, and informally test control room layouts Verification Tool is used to formally test control room layouts against design review guidelines and generate reports

8 Client-Server Architecture Internet/intranet architecture Server based on Web server technology Administration and Project Tools are clients that manipulate data on the server Centralised storage of data Facilitates backup, reduces risk of losing system and project data Supports multiple users with passwords Users share data transparently without geographical limitations

9 Layout Design Designer Designs control room layouts. Can create and modify: Room layouts Design notes Can read and write: Project messages Can access: Reviewer s reports Layout Tool System Users Models Guidelines Project Context Layouts Reviews (messages)

10 Layout Tool

11 Layout Tool Used to design room layouts Project s Model Bank catalogue provides the objects that can be used User can easily position objects in a layout and create object relationships Uses smart drag and drop functionality User can move around the layout in 3D as it is being designed and informally test it Publish finished design for testing

12 Formal Layout Review Reviewer Reviews control room layouts. Can create and modify: Review data Can read and write: Project messages Can access: Published layouts Design notes Verification Tool System Users Models Guidelines Project Context Layouts Reviews (messages)

13 Verification Tool

14 Verification Tool Used to formally test layouts against review guidelines Test layouts published from Layout Tool User tests layout interactively Uses specialised 3D testing tools Enters comments with snapshots for each guideline Multiple users can test the same layout independently and project manager can compare results Can generate a variety of reports

15 System Requirements Software Platform Web Server Architecture Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, or Windows 2000/XP Based on Apache and Perl with extensions Client applications Windows 2000/XP, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris,... Java 2 v1.4.2 and Java 3D or later Minimum recommended client platform 700MHz Pentium III, 256MB RAM 3D graphics accelerator with 32MB RAM

16 Availability CREATE 2 has been developed in a collaboration between EDF and IFE CREATE 1 field tested in real projects The CREATE 2 distribution is easy to install and use has a comprehensive feature set has extensive user documentation Technical support and updates included the first year Annual fee after the second year

17 More Information and Demo

Elluminate Live! Manager. Frequently Asked Questions

Elluminate Live! Manager. Frequently Asked Questions Elluminate Live! Manager General Information... 2 1. What is the Elluminate Live! Manager?... 2 2. Can the Elluminate Live! Manager be installed on the same system as the Elluminate Live! Server?... 2