Desenvolvimento do ambiente virtual do experimento transformadores de potência.

Abstract

The Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG) offers, through the curriculum of the undergraduate course in Electrical Engineering (EE), the subject of Electrical Equipment of five credits. Four credits are for theoretical activities and one credit for laboratory activities. With the COVID-19 pandemic, laboratory activities could no longer be carried out in person, making it impossible to offer the discipline by the Department of Electrical Engineering, since to establish theoretical knowledge it is necessary to apply the knowledge in practice. The alternative presented to make the offer of this discipline viable was to gather a task force made up of undergraduate students, graduate students, volunteers and the professor of the discipline to transform face-to-face activities into remote activities. All the experiments that would be carried out in the building of the High Voltage Laboratory (LAT) at UFCG were developed in two dimensions. In order to optimize experiments such as the visual inspection of a power transformer, it was proposed the development of a base virtual environment for the development of a platform to carry out the Power Transformers experiment in three dimensions. On this platform, the activities that would be carried out in the face-to-face teaching modality, with the electrical equipment in focus, could be carried out in the remote teaching modality without using only photographs, as was done in the two-dimensional simulation. Thus, all environments of the building in which the LAT works were developed, with the application of Unity 3D software, in order to simulate each step that would be carried out in person: from the student's entry into the laboratory building to the possibility of handling the instruments measurement and visualization tools arranged on the 3D platform and which can be applied from the first to the last activity related to the Power Transformers experiment. As it constitutes a basis for the simulation of face-to-face activities, it is concluded that the results obtained with the development of the virtual platform in three dimensions were satisfactory.