Visual Exploration and Planning of the Automated Material Handling System for Smart Factory in the Immersive Environment

The combination of the digital twin and the smart factory has been a popular research direction in recent years. Automated Material Handling System (AMHS) is an important scene of smart factory, while most traditional simulation AMHS analysis tools only provide results or simple 2D displays. We introduce a visual exploration system that combines virtual reality (VR) with AMHS to allow users to observe and analyze the performance of the system in real-time, and we provide a series of egocentric interactions to help users analyze and interfere with the performance of the system. The interactions include ray interaction, task scheduling interaction, and path planning interaction, We demonstrate how to explore AMHS using visualization and interaction in our system through case studies.