Virtual Reality based Digital Twin System for remote laboratories and online practical learning

TL;DR

This paper presents a VR-based digital twin system for remote laboratories, enabling lecturers to easily create virtual learning content, demonstrated through an electrical laboratory case study, addressing the need for efficient virtual practical learning solutions.

Contribution

It introduces a semi-automatic method for creating virtual laboratory tutorials, reducing development time and empowering educators to generate their own VR content.

Findings

Successful creation of a virtual electrical laboratory tutorial

Demonstrated semi-automatic content generation process

Enhanced accessibility for remote practical learning

Abstract

There is a need for remote learning and virtual learning applications such as virtual reality (VR) and tablet-based solutions which the current pandemic has demonstrated. Creating complex learning scenarios by developers is highly time-consuming and can take over a year. There is a need to provide a simple method to enable lecturers to create their own content for their laboratory tutorials. Research is currently being undertaken into developing generic models to enable the semi-automatic creation of a virtual learning application. A case study describing the creation of a virtual learning application for an electrical laboratory tutorial is presented.