The development of a virtual laboratory based on Unreal Engine 4

Abstract

In our days we have the problem in the system of training highly skilled engineering staff– the impossibility of teaching students high-tech equipment because of its fragility and high cost. The solution of this problem is the creation of a virtual laboratory works, which represent a computer simulation of the real hardware – the simulator. The main advantages of virtual laboratories is the lack of significant costs for the buy, repair and maintenance of expensive equipment, increased visibility of the processes of the explored process, unlimited up building the virtual laboratory’s functional and etc. At the moment the laboratory work is developed and its purpose is to research the hysteresis of linear deformations of piezoelectric elements and it is tested in real educational process. Further development of this work is to increase the number of training models, and of course as support for mobile devices.