General Objective: Develop a didactic system based on immersive technologies which contain 3D virtual environments, allowing sensory immersion and interaction of multiple users to facilitate the teaching-learning process, in order to generate meaningful learning.
Specific objectives
- Define an appropriate methodology to implement virtual reality environments, in order to encourage engineering users to use virtual reality in teaching-learning processes.
- Model and validate the dynamic behavior of equipment and instruments associated with industrial processes, in order to be used in advanced control algorithms implemented in closed control loops in virtual reality environments.
- Develop a virtual reality application that allows real-time sensory immersion and interaction of multiple users in recreated digital environments, that is, electronic engineering and industrial automation laboratories, and real environments of the industrial sector, with the purpose of promoting meaningful learning through an autonomous virtual assistant (bot).
- Implement a computer assistant (bot) that emulates human behavior, in such a way that the user can share and socialize information with an autonomous learning entity immersed in virtual reality environments.
- Develop a man-machine interface in order to manage autonomously and safely the execution of laboratory practices, and the monitoring-control of industrial processes. The interface must record all the data in each session in order to be processed to analyze the behavior and response patterns of the users, thus helping to evaluate the teaching-learning process of each user.
- Implement a high availability cloud computing infrastructure, for the management of information in real time, according to the requirements of virtual reality environments.
- Implement logical security solutions to the Server, communication channel and the Web Application, in order to safeguard the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the information, as well as its usability.
- Carry out experimental evaluations of the performance of the virtual reality applications developed oriented to the teaching-learning process in electronic engineering and industrial automation. The experimental evaluations will be carried out in the different laboratory practices of the chairs related to industrial processes, and automation-control.
Participating Institutions:
ESPE, ESPOCH, UTA, UTI.
Participants:
Project Director Eng. Jessica S. Ortiz, Mgt.
- Jessica S Ortiz
- edison espinoza
- jacqueline llanos
- diego ortiz
- Paola Velasco
- Edwin Pruna
- carlos sanchez
- Diego Veloz
- Jefferson Ribadeneira
- Jairo Cevallos
- Mauricio Tamayo
- Luis Mantilla
- danny rivera
- Alejandro Avila
Awarded budget: $69360
Project status: Signing of agreements.
