Three-dimensional modeling of a telerobot based on SolidWorks and Open Inventor

In order to accurately construct the modeling of a telerobot in a virtual environment and reduce the work of developing the graphic design, this paper took the XK-II telerobot as a prototype, using SolidWorks modeling and interactive graphics programming with Open Inventor. First of all, we constructed each entities' geometric model in SolidWorks, and then, derived these models into VRML files and read them in VC++6.0 and Open Inventor environment, and lastly, built the telerobot's environment geometric model with Open Inventor three-dimensional Toolkit. Finally we organized the scene nodes and established an operation simulation system of the telerobot in a virtual environment. The results show that this method can not only reduce the complexity and difficulty of the telerobot modeling, but also greatly shorten the development period of the telerobot simulation system. It also shows that the proposed method has strong practicability.