Mixing control of animating virtual human for maintenance simulation

Over the past decades, control method of animating virtual human, as a significant aspect of virtual maintenance simulation, has been developing in various directions. However, huge time consumption has always been the kernel problem that severely limits a virtual human to be applied to real applications. In this study, a mixing control method is proposed to overcome the limitation and to efficiently create maintenance simulation. The method mainly realizes the combination of immersive and non-immersive control methods which make the information and actions keeping consistently throughout a simulation process. To minimize time consumption, advantages of the existing control methods are employed to generate motions of a virtual human for each new application. To verify the proposed mixing control method, a maintenance simulation task of a single chip on a missile was applied to. The results show that the mixing control is found to be an effective tool for maintenance simulation.