Virtual Reality based Digital Twin System for remote laboratories and online practical learning
This addresses the need for lecturers to easily create remote laboratory content for online practical learning, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing VR and digital twin concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of time-consuming development of complex virtual learning scenarios by proposing a generic model for semi-automatic creation of virtual reality-based digital twin systems, with a case study on an electrical laboratory tutorial.
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.