The Department of Complex Systems of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology held a 5-day training workshop on Virtual Reality Technology from 17-21 February 2020. The training was organised as part of the international project I-TRACE Immersive TRAining for aerospaCE, carried out by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics at the Rzeszów University of Technology as part of the Erasmus+ project under the direction of Prof. Romana Śliwa. The training was organised as part of the international project I-TRACE Immersive TRAining for aerospaCE, carried out by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics at the Rzeszów University of Technology as part of the Erasmus+ project under the direction of Prof. Romana Śliwa. Apart from the Rzeszów University of Technology, six European partners participate in the I-TRACE project, including professional training providers, universities, groups associating chambers of commerce and companies specializing in virtual reality. The countries involved are Italy, Poland, Norway and Spain. The project is planned to be completed on 30.10.2020. The specific objectives of the project include the development of training/courses using VR/AR technology for students in the field of aviation (optional specializations), as well as employees of interested aviation companies in the field of inspection: aircraft, production lines and machinery, and construction and operation of machines, their components, etc.
The training organized by Paweł Dymora, PhD and Mirosław Mazurek, PhD, took place in the G2A Virtual Reality Laboratory and Enterprise Systems Laboratory under the patronage of Asseco S.A. on the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. The target group of the course were people from the aviation industry, teachers of professional subjects and students of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. The training was conducted in two parts: the first one intended for representatives of companies and teaching staff, and the second one for students. The whole training lasted 5 working days with a total of 40 lesson hours. During the training, topics related to: the concept of immersive learning and its implementation in the education and training process, examples of 3D virtual learning environments and other innovative forms of learning through experience were discussed. Selected VR/AR/Unity 3D technologies, implementations of computer simulations and process analysis using ANSYS/SYMKOM applications were presented.
In particular, the following topics were presented:
- PhD. Eng. Maciej K. Ginalski (Symkom) - Teaching the invisible - Virtual Prototyping;
- Jakub Sawulski M.Sc. (Symkom) - Designing aircraft control systems in a virtual environment;
- Piotr Buliński M.Sc. (Symkom) - Modeling of light in virtual space: Ansys Speos & VRXPERIENCE;
- PhD. Eng. Piotr Grzybowski (PILC) - Applications of VR and AR in production organization;
- PhD. Eng. Piotr Grzybowski (PILC) - Application of the VR flight simulators for the parachute training;
- Michał Wroński M.Sc.(PRz) - Creating 3d models for VR environment in Blender;
- Bartosz Kowal M.Sc. (PRz) - Creating a VR environment in Unity on the example of an airplane desktop;
- PhD. Eng. Paweł Dymora (PRz) - Introduction to VR / AR technology;
- PhD. Eng. Mirosław Mazurek (PRz) - Immersive learning in education process
In addition to interesting presentations, the workshops were combined with practical activities that resulted in interesting projects in several environments: Blender, Unity, ANSYS and they were tested in the G2A Virtual Reality Laboratory on high-performance computers and HMD devices. In addition, PILC company provided a unique in Poland parachute jump simulator based on VR technology.
Details of the project and organized events can be found on the project website: https://itrace.w.prz.edu.pl/
