Reseach Equipment Grant: Laboratory Equipment - VERAM: A Virtual Environment for Education, Robotics, Automation and Manufacturing

小行星9610055 该奖项提供资金，用于购买必要的设备，研究开发制造应用程序的虚拟环境，并调查机器人操纵器在装配操作中的使用。沉浸式虚拟环境将是 培训新员工与虚拟车间资源互动是值得的（目前这方面的例子包括飞行模拟器）。它可用于研究员工对频繁发生的车间情况或异常情况（故障等）的反应。这是罕见的，从而有助于在适当的环境中安置（或工作轮换）这些员工。 从这样的练习中获得的结果也可能有助于培养更好的人类 基于多媒体发展的计算机接口技术。来自实现这样的虚拟环境的结果可以用于判断非逻辑问题，例如员工随着时间的推移到车间情况的疲劳和效率，从而成为制造过程中的重要问题。 对我们的工人来说更安全 如果成功的话，本研究的结果也可以成功地用于研究多媒体增强教学方案。虽然它一直说，多媒体增强教学计划是非常有效的学生教育，研究这些技术的影响方面的学习理论，策略，视觉和听觉隐喻，和合作与情境学习机制的影响是新生的。虚拟现实技术在 多媒体教学的研究可以提供一些重要的启示，例如：集中学生的注意力，提高记忆力，使视听界面最大限度地提高学习过程和改善互动机制等。因此，这项工作也有助于理解多媒体技术在教学中可能存在的局限性。

9610055 Ramaswamy This award provides funding for the purchase of equipment necessary for research into the development of virtual environments for manufacturing applications and investigating the use of robotic manipulators as applied to assembly operations. An immersive virtual environment will be worthwhile in training new employees in interacting with the virtual shop floor resources (current examples in this regard include flight simulators). It can be used to study employee reflexes to frequently occurring shop floor situations or exceptional situations (failures, etc.) that are rare in occurrence and thereby help in the placement (or job rotation) of these employees in appropriate environments. Results obtained from such an exercise may also help to develop better human computer interfacing techniques based on advances in multi-media. Results from implementing such virtual environments can be used to judge non-logical issues such as fatigue and efficiency of employees over time to shop floor situations thereby becoming an important issue in making the shop floor safer for our work force. If successful, the results from this research can also be used successfully in studying multi-media enhanced instructional schemes. Although it has been consistently said that multi-media enhanced instructional schemes are very effective in student education, research into the effect of these techniques with respect to learning theories, strategies, visual and aural metaphors, and the effects of collaborated vs. situated learning mechanisms is nascent. Virtual reality in instruction may provide major insights into issues such as: focusing student attention, improving memory retention, interleaving visual and aural interfaces to maximize the learning process and improving interaction mechanisms, etc. Thus this work may also contribute in understanding the possible limitations of multi-media techniques in instruction.