Research on Manufacturing Resource Model Building with VRML for Tele-manufacturing

The paper brings forward a method of building models with VRML for the longdistant manufacturing resource,introducing how to build the geometrical models for the manufacturing resource with VRML and how to combine the models with functional modules.The method,which is applied to a long-distant manufacturing system developed with VRML and other programming languages,conjoins the advantage of VRML on building models in virtual reality with that of the programming languages on developing the interface,intercommunication by the net,operating on the database and so forth.The paper provides an example of how to import the models of the equipments into the virtual workshop of the system to illuminate the method mentioned above.