Lab 5 - LRAZR

Resp. person: doc. Ing. Miriam Pekarcikova, PhD.

Location: Komenského Park 9, 3rd floor no. d. 301

Today, the importance of the Industry 4.0 concept is gaining prominence in every, not just industry. The importance of this idea in this case is based on the principle of intelligent factories and the problems that naturally accompany them. These are mainly elements of digitization, simulation, optimization, but also the independent implementation of these technologies in older companies. The importance of these concepts is gaining more and more prominence due to the ever-increasing form of demands for competitiveness, thanks to which companies are profitable and prosperous. Another important part is the form of creating digital twins using visualization, which creates a digital model of, for example, a manufacturing company or its individual parts.

To solve these problems, a top laboratory of augmented and mixed reality was built, which is equipped with the latest software as well as hardware technologies, which provide students with quality and valuable teaching. As a result, students will develop their creative and technical thinking, the ability to make logical decisions and analyze important aspects that will affect the final results of their work.

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Laboratory focus

The laboratory of augmented and mixed reality is mainly dedicated to the creation of a digital image of a manufacturing company or its selected parts, using various software platforms, which have a unique role in this process.

The focus of the laboratory is divided into three basic parts:

creating digital models,
creation of dynamic animations,
simulation of production and logistics systems and their processes.

Students can apply their knowledge in these areas and can create simulation models of production lines, processes or even transport thanks to the dynamic simulation module from Siemens-Technomatix Plant Simulation and then look for ways and possibilities for a specific form of production process optimization. In cooperation with the practice, students are able to create simulation models of production on real layouts and thus check and identify bottlenecks, define the utilization of individual workplaces / operators or determine the throughput of the system. To create a digital model of a manufacturing company, modeling software such as Solid Works or Factory Design is used in this laboratory, where the student can design and model his own version of the manufacturing company.

The laboratory is largely dedicated to the creation of dynamic animations and static (photorealistic) images, which help to complete the compact image of the manufacturing company thanks to the Twinmotion software platform. Within this platform, the student can also model the display of the selected production space and thus create its variations and modify the views of the display as needed. Designed with a simple, intuitive user interface, it makes learning and work easier. In addition, Twinmotion creates high quality images and animations in real time.

Laboratory goals

Creating simulation models in a software environment with subsequent verification.
Work on solving simulation problems.
Creation of dynamic animations for the purpose of visualization of selected production objects.
Gaining knowledge from practice through layouts when creating digital models.
Extension of theoretical and technical knowledge of students in the subject area of digitization, software and hardware support.
To deepen students' abilities in the process of correct decision-making and analysis.
Creation of student final theses in the subject area.
Cooperation with practice.

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