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A Design Proposal: Virtual Reality Environment for Safety Training in Electrical Substations

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Advances in Manufacturing III (MANUFACTURING 2022)

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Virtual reality technology has developed at an exponential rate in the last decades, increasing in popularity due to its multiple benefits in learning and job training applications. One of these benefits is the ability to offer hands-on learning in virtual environments, which in real life are highly dangerous for inexperienced people, so it would be impossible to provide this type of learning through traditional teaching methods. In electrical engineering, it is common to encounter these situations, as is the case with electrical substations. There is a need for a trainer that allows trainees to acquire knowledge about these infrastructures with a closer approach. Being substation safety is one of the main factors in the training process in the electrical field. The trainer must have scenarios that first teach and promote personal safety, so topics such as personal protective equipment are considered. This paper introduces the process of a trainer for electrical substations simulator, specifically on following safety instructions, a development of a virtual practice using 2D and 3D is shown, which aims to instruct the user on personal protective equipment in an immersive environment. The process of the three-dimensional environment is presented, and the flow of the practice is described. The training tool teaches the users about the proper equipment to wear when going to an electrical substation and then shows what the user will find there. Tests were applied to the user to measure usability, satisfaction, and efficiency using the training tool.

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  1. Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Pedro de Alba S/N, Niños Heroes, San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

    Edson E. Castañeda-Mancillas, Eduardo Sanchez-Rentería & Francisco Torres-Guerreo

  2. Poznań University of Technology, Piotrowo 3, 60-965, Poznan, Poland

    Paweł Buń

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  1. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

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  2. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

    Agnieszka Kujawińska

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Jose Machado

  4. Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine

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Castañeda-Mancillas, E.E., Sanchez-Rentería, E., Torres-Guerreo, F., Buń, P. (2022). A Design Proposal: Virtual Reality Environment for Safety Training in Electrical Substations. In: Trojanowska, J., Kujawińska, A., Machado, J., Pavlenko, I. (eds) Advances in Manufacturing III. MANUFACTURING 2022. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99310-8_22

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