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

研究设备资助：实验室设备 - VERAM：教育、机器人、自动化和制造的虚拟环境

• 批准号: 9610055
• 负责人: Srinivasan Ramaswamy
• 金额: $ 3.54万
• 依托单位: Georgia Southwestern State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-09-01 至 1998-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9610055&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Reseach; Equipment; Grant; Laboratory; VERAM

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.

9610055 Ramaswamy 该奖项提供资金用于购买研究开发制造应用虚拟环境以及研究机器人操纵器在装配操作中的使用所需的设备。沉浸式虚拟环境有助于培训新员工与虚拟车间资源交互（这方面的当前示例包括飞行模拟器）。它可用于研究员工对频繁发生的车间情况或罕见情况（故障等）的反应，从而有助于将这些员工安置（或工作轮换）在适当的环境中。 从这样的练习中获得的结果也可能有助于开发基于多媒体进步的更好的人机接口技术。实施此类虚拟环境的结果可用于判断非逻辑问题，例如员工在车间情况下的疲劳和效率，从而成为使车间对我们的员工更安全的重要问题。 如果成功，这项研究的结果也可以成功地用于研究多媒体增强教学方案。尽管人们一直认为多媒体增强教学方案在学生教育中非常有效，但研究这些技术在学习理论、策略、视觉和听觉隐喻方面的效果，以及协作与情境学习机制的效果是新生的。教学中的虚拟现实可以为以下问题提供重要见解：集中学生注意力、提高记忆保留、交叉视觉和听觉界面以最大化学习过程和改进交互机制等。因此，这项工作也可能有助于理解虚拟现实的可能局限性。教学中的多媒体技术。