An Educational Multi Media Task Force Project of the European Community
A radical new kind of learning environment will be
promoted. Based on the combination of real world phenomena and virtual
world simulations through a Graspable User Interface it will be possible
to freely change between operations on real physical objects and their
virtual counterparts. These Twin-Objects, real and corresponding virtual
components, will compose a new kind of complex construction kit which prepares
a new era of simulation technology: Real and Virtual Reality. An era in
which real physical parts have an adequate functional, structural and behavioural
description, to build from these components a composite system which again
shows the correspondence between the physical and the virtual system. The
aim of this project is to demonstrate the feasibility as well as the advantages
of this concept by providing a construction kit of TWIN-Mechatronic-Objects
suitable for vocational training in production automation.