Spatial Behavioural Simulation of Mechanical Objects

The paper presents a computational method for spatial behavioral simulation of moving mechanical objects. The developed software is able to handle both two-dimensional and threedimensional objects whose geometric models are imported from commercialized CAD systems through STEP files. Kinematical description of various objects is unified, stationary obstacles and moving bodies are treated in the same way. For spatial behavioral simulation objects and obstacles can be arbitrarily configured in the space, their pre-collision movement, frictioninfluenced and friction-free collisions on the obstacles are computed, together with the postcollision trajectories of movement. The spatial behavioral simulation has been applied to solve an industrial problem: namely, spatial positioning of moving objects without using extra energy.