Vectors to Innovation : Bringing the spirit of Leonardo back to Leonardo Vecteurs pour lInnovation : Rendre à Leonardo lesprit de Leonardo Budapest /02/2005 Welding trAining in a Virtual Environment Laurent Da Dalto (CS) Daniel Mellet dHuart (AFPA)

Vectors to Innovation : Bringing the spirit of Leonardo back to Leonardo Vecteurs pour lInnovation : Rendre à Leonardo lesprit de Leonardo Budapest /02/2005 Primary goals For trainees –to facilitate occupational skill acquisition For trainers –to provide tools for monitoring, analysing and supervising training For training centres –to reduce training costs

Vectors to Innovation : Bringing the spirit of Leonardo back to Leonardo Vecteurs pour lInnovation : Rendre à Leonardo lesprit de Leonardo Budapest /02/2005 Movie : integrating CS WAVE

Vectors to Innovation : Bringing the spirit of Leonardo back to Leonardo Vecteurs pour lInnovation : Rendre à Leonardo lesprit de Leonardo Budapest /02/2005 Learning Welding A slow and tedious process: –A complex theory –A quasi-blindness when acting a (a strong brightness and sparkles).

Vectors to Innovation : Bringing the spirit of Leonardo back to Leonardo Vecteurs pour lInnovation : Rendre à Leonardo lesprit de Leonardo Budapest /02/2005 Training issues: A lack of visual clues Delayed feedbacks (X-ray or cutting of welded pieces) Important cost of material Risks

Vectors to Innovation : Bringing the spirit of Leonardo back to Leonardo Vecteurs pour lInnovation : Rendre à Leonardo lesprit de Leonardo Budapest /02/2005 CS WAVE is based on: learning by progressive construction of skilled gesture components

Vectors to Innovation : Bringing the spirit of Leonardo back to Leonardo Vecteurs pour lInnovation : Rendre à Leonardo lesprit de Leonardo Budapest /02/2005 Progressive, various and varied exercises Task decomposition

Vectors to Innovation : Bringing the spirit of Leonardo back to Leonardo Vecteurs pour lInnovation : Rendre à Leonardo lesprit de Leonardo Budapest /02/2005 Display: –Getting rid of visual noises –Visualising the welding cord –Providing visual guidance –Real-time feedback on gesture components

Vectors to Innovation : Bringing the spirit of Leonardo back to Leonardo Vecteurs pour lInnovation : Rendre à Leonardo lesprit de Leonardo Budapest /02/2005 Horizontal welding Different welding positions…

Vectors to Innovation : Bringing the spirit of Leonardo back to Leonardo Vecteurs pour lInnovation : Rendre à Leonardo lesprit de Leonardo Budapest /02/2005 Vertical welding

Vectors to Innovation : Bringing the spirit of Leonardo back to Leonardo Vecteurs pour lInnovation : Rendre à Leonardo lesprit de Leonardo Budapest /02/2005 Added value for the trainees – Improvement of concentration –Initial approach is distressed

Vectors to Innovation : Bringing the spirit of Leonardo back to Leonardo Vecteurs pour lInnovation : Rendre à Leonardo lesprit de Leonardo Budapest /02/2005 To summarise Breaking down occupational skills for learning psychomotor components and gesture control Real-time feedback Same exercises on the real and virtual context

Vectors to Innovation : Bringing the spirit of Leonardo back to Leonardo Vecteurs pour lInnovation : Rendre à Leonardo lesprit de Leonardo Budapest /02/2005 Benefits for trainers –User-friendly monitoring tool –Remote monitoring and supervision –Interactive teaching aid –Guidance in schedule management –Improved responsiveness in monitoring individual trainees

Vectors to Innovation : Bringing the spirit of Leonardo back to Leonardo Vecteurs pour lInnovation : Rendre à Leonardo lesprit de Leonardo Budapest /02/ % estimated cost reduction (raw material) Energy saving (reduced gas and electricity consumption) Reduce maintenance Protection of the environment (AFPA : 1 tonne of metal per trainee) Safety –Self training –Multiple user platform –Improved educational monitoring –Enhanced image of welding training Benefits for training centres

Vectors to Innovation : Bringing the spirit of Leonardo back to Leonardo Vecteurs pour lInnovation : Rendre à Leonardo lesprit de Leonardo Budapest /02/2005 Feedbacks CS WAVE has been in operation on a trial basis at AFPA, Montluçon, since June 2003 CS WAVE is now marketed and runs in 6 training centres in France Over 80 trainees have followed training courses integrating CS WAVE 8 welding trainers have integrated CS WAVE into their training course AFPA and CS continue to analyse the results to improve the next versions of the product

Vectors to Innovation : Bringing the spirit of Leonardo back to Leonardo Vecteurs pour lInnovation : Rendre à Leonardo lesprit de Leonardo Budapest /02/2005 Distribution schedule March 2004: –Distribution throughout France (AFPA, UIMM, IS, …) Now: –AFPA : 6 centres, 32 before end 2005, all before end 2006 –UIMM : 30 centres before end 2005 Ongoing: –World-wide distribution –Resellers network in construction

Vectors to Innovation : Bringing the spirit of Leonardo back to Leonardo Vecteurs pour lInnovation : Rendre à Leonardo lesprit de Leonardo Budapest /02/2005 LAVAL-VIRTUAL (France) First International Virtual-Reality Learning Seminar April 20 & 21, 2005 & EVTA Rainbow-group meeting "Virtual Reality for Learning" April 22, 2005

Vectors to Innovation : Bringing the spirit of Leonardo back to Leonardo Vecteurs pour lInnovation : Rendre à Leonardo lesprit de Leonardo Budapest /02/2005 Further information WEB site : Contacts: Distribution and development In partnership with Laurent Da Dalto Product manager (33) Sylvain Belle-Clot Marketing manager (33) Educational applications Dominique Steib Educational advisor Daniel Mellet-d'Huart VR project manager