Integration of Virtual Systems in Teaching and Laboratory Exercises (InviS)

Teaching Competence Team: Integration of Virtual Systems in Teaching and Lab Exercises | MA23 – Call 29-11

Endowed professorships and competence teams for teaching and research

Virtual technologies (including virtual and mixed reality, XR) for the creation of artificial or augmented realities all the way to software solutions for virtual commissioning have become suitable for mass use in recent years. As a result of this development, they are also gradually finding their way into the manufacturing industry. In order to prepare graduates for these requirements in their professional life, it is necessary to develop and evaluate teaching content for and with XR. The InviS project addresses this challenge to make the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien fit for the future of education.

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Virtual technologies offer enormous potential for increasing positive learning effects to an ever greater extent. At the same time, the costs for hardware and software are continuing to fall. It is particularly in the training of technical professions (engineering) that both virtual and mixed reality can be well tested. Among other things, they can be used to depict complex technical contexts, which offer an ideal test environment due to the ever-similar and controllable properties. In addition, this area of higher education offers the chance to test visions of the future (e.g., the use and effects of human-robot collaboration in future factories).

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Due to digital transformation and constant optimization, proven processes in the manufacturing industry must also be reconsidered. A significant change in processes is emerging, among other things, in the planning and implementation, the so-called commissioning, of plants. If work steps are simulated as early as the planning stage, they can be implemented faster and with fewer errors. This ultimately reduces development costs.

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By integrating these solutions into teaching, it would be possible to incorporate complex exercise projects in the fields of mechatronics and mechanical engineering into UAS operations. Simple physical effects such as the behavior of components in collisions up to complex multi-body systems (such as 6-axis articulated robots) and their dynamic behavior can be demonstrated.

Within the framework of the MA23-funded project for a competence team for teaching: Integration of virtual systems in teaching and laboratory exercises (InviS), these technologies are to be integrated into university operations at the UAS Technikum Wien. The aforementioned technologies are considered key to mastering the transformation to digitalization of industry and production. The results obtained in InviS will therefore also be used to develop a course on the topic of virtual technologies in industrial use. This course will be integrated into the curricula of the Industrial Engineering faculty.