Time and resource utilization of a voxel-based simulation for indoor multicopters

Abstract

Constantly increasing production volumes and new challenges in production environments with the same amount of space are forcing manufacturing compa-nies to deal with the planning of production layouts. The problem often is a non-existent or outdated production layout plan. Autonomous multicopters can help by sim-plifying layout capture. That's why a voxel-based simula-tion is investigated to develop and train path planning al-gorithms with and without artificial intelligence. First, the temporal behavior and the resource utilization of the sim-ulation is investigated. Then, the time factor of simulation is compared to real time and what advantages companies and developers have when using it.