Section: Software and Platforms

GVT

Participants : Bruno Arnaldi, Valérie Gouranton [contact] , Florian Nouviale, Thomas Lopez.

The aim of GVT software (Generic Virtual Training) is to offer personalizable VR training sessions for industrial equipments. The main features of GVT software are the safeness offered by VR training (as opposed to trainind in risky real conditions), the optimization of the learning process, the creation of dedicated scenarios runnable on multiple hardware configurations: laptop or desktop computer, immersive room, distribution over network, etc. The current kernel of the GVT platform is divided into two main elements that rely on innovative models we have proposed: LORA (Language for Object-Relation Application) and STORM (Simulation and Training Object-Relation Model) models. With GVT behavioral engine, the objects of the virtual world expose behavorial capacities through the use of STORM. Then, the GVT scenario engine is used to determine the next steps of the procedure for a trainee, and its state evolves as the trainees achieve some actions, the scenario being written in LORA. As for today, a commercialized version of GVT, which includes a pedagogical engine developed at CERV laboratory, proposes training on individual procedures. In CORVETTE (section 8.2.1 ) and SIFORAS (section 8.2.6 ) projects, new features based on GVT are being designed, such as interactive, collaborative and physicalized actions, actors knowledge management, dialog using natural langage.