Using virtual reality to monitor and control an industrial robot via the Internet
- Authors: Vermeulen, Heinrich
- Date: 2001
- Subjects: Virtual reality , Robotics -- Computer programs
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MTech (Engineering)
- Identifier: vital:10820 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/74 , Virtual reality , Robotics -- Computer programs
- Description: Manufacturing processes may be modeled in various ways, including 3D modeling. There is a need to visualise, control and monitor manufacturing processes remotely via the Internet. Virtual Reality (VR) can be described as the science of integrating man with information. It is based on three distinct environments: three-dimensional, interactive and computer-generated. VR has come to the Internet in the form of VR modeling. The evolution of Web technologies in recent years has enabled the use of VR modeling for visualisation of manufacturing processes. The VR modeling language (VRML), which has become the standard for transmitting 3D virtual worlds across the Internet, can be used to control and monitor manufacturing processes visually. A 3D model of a manufacturing process, specifically an industrial robot arm, was created for this project. This model was successfully linked to the industrial robot that it represents in order to control and monitor the robot’s actions remotely via the Internet using Web technologies. This dissertation proves the viablity of using Virtual Reality to effectively visualise, monitor and control an industrial robot via the Internet. It also describes the methodology that was followed in modeling the industrial robot arm in VRML as well as linking the model to the real world application.
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- Date Issued: 2001
- Authors: Vermeulen, Heinrich
- Date: 2001
- Subjects: Virtual reality , Robotics -- Computer programs
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MTech (Engineering)
- Identifier: vital:10820 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/74 , Virtual reality , Robotics -- Computer programs
- Description: Manufacturing processes may be modeled in various ways, including 3D modeling. There is a need to visualise, control and monitor manufacturing processes remotely via the Internet. Virtual Reality (VR) can be described as the science of integrating man with information. It is based on three distinct environments: three-dimensional, interactive and computer-generated. VR has come to the Internet in the form of VR modeling. The evolution of Web technologies in recent years has enabled the use of VR modeling for visualisation of manufacturing processes. The VR modeling language (VRML), which has become the standard for transmitting 3D virtual worlds across the Internet, can be used to control and monitor manufacturing processes visually. A 3D model of a manufacturing process, specifically an industrial robot arm, was created for this project. This model was successfully linked to the industrial robot that it represents in order to control and monitor the robot’s actions remotely via the Internet using Web technologies. This dissertation proves the viablity of using Virtual Reality to effectively visualise, monitor and control an industrial robot via the Internet. It also describes the methodology that was followed in modeling the industrial robot arm in VRML as well as linking the model to the real world application.
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- Date Issued: 2001
Validation of a predictor battery for engineering technicians
- Authors: Taylor, Jonathan Maclaren
- Date: 1980
- Subjects: Occupational aptitude tests , Engineering -- Vocational guidance , Vocational guidance , Prediction (Psychology) , Psychological tests
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:3110 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004548 , Occupational aptitude tests , Engineering -- Vocational guidance , Vocational guidance , Prediction (Psychology) , Psychological tests
- Description: From summary: This study describes a procedure for predicting course success for certain first term engineering technicians. The aim of the study is to reduce the high attrition rate of trainee engineering technicians through the early identification of candidates who are likely to fail their first term of study. This identification is done by testing all applicants to the courses on a battery of psychological tests, and from this information estimating the applicants' first term course results. It is suggested that the student counsellors attached to the various Technikons integrate the suggested procedure into a flexible vocational guidance service for engineering technicians. It should be borne in mind that no validation study can predict future success with a hundred percent accuracy, and that the sample used in this study may be specific to the Witwatersrand Technikon.
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- Date Issued: 1980
- Authors: Taylor, Jonathan Maclaren
- Date: 1980
- Subjects: Occupational aptitude tests , Engineering -- Vocational guidance , Vocational guidance , Prediction (Psychology) , Psychological tests
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:3110 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004548 , Occupational aptitude tests , Engineering -- Vocational guidance , Vocational guidance , Prediction (Psychology) , Psychological tests
- Description: From summary: This study describes a procedure for predicting course success for certain first term engineering technicians. The aim of the study is to reduce the high attrition rate of trainee engineering technicians through the early identification of candidates who are likely to fail their first term of study. This identification is done by testing all applicants to the courses on a battery of psychological tests, and from this information estimating the applicants' first term course results. It is suggested that the student counsellors attached to the various Technikons integrate the suggested procedure into a flexible vocational guidance service for engineering technicians. It should be borne in mind that no validation study can predict future success with a hundred percent accuracy, and that the sample used in this study may be specific to the Witwatersrand Technikon.
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- Date Issued: 1980