Digital Twinning remote laboratories for online practical learning

The COVID19 pandemic has demonstrated a need for remote learning and virtual learning applications such as virtual reality (VR) and tablet-based solutions. Creating complex learning scenarios by developers is highly time-consuming and can take over a year. It is also costly to employ teams of system...

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Main Authors: C. Palmer, B. Roullier, M. Aamir, F. McQuade, Leonardo Stella, A. Anjum, U. Diala
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2022-12-01
Series:Production and Manufacturing Research: An Open Access Journal
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/21693277.2022.2097140
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Summary:The COVID19 pandemic has demonstrated a need for remote learning and virtual learning applications such as virtual reality (VR) and tablet-based solutions. Creating complex learning scenarios by developers is highly time-consuming and can take over a year. It is also costly to employ teams of system analysts, developers and 3D artists. There is a requirement to provide a simple method to enable lecturers to create their own content for their laboratory tutorials. Research has been undertaken into developing generic models to enable the semi-automatic creation of virtual learning tools for subjects that require practical interactions with the lab resources. In addition to the system for creating digital twins, a case study describing the creation of a virtual learning application for an electrical laboratory tutorial is presented, demonstrating the feasibility of this approach.
ISSN:2169-3277