The Project
AIR-XR is an educational application designed to bridge the gap between theoretical engineering concepts and practical industrial skills. Targeted at students and vocational trainees, this VR application creates a risk-free, immersive laboratory environment centered around a digital twin of a Universal Robots collaborative arm. The primary objective is to facilitate the acquisition of complex procedural muscle memory without the hardware costs or access limitations associated with physical industrial robots.
Technology
Functionally, the application replicates the complete operational lifecycle of a robotic cell, allowing users to interact with the robot exactly as they would in a physical lab. Trainees starting with the standard system initialization procedures required to verify the robot is in a “Normal” state and ready for work. The simulation offers advanced modules on configuring Tool Center Points (TCP) for peripheral equipment, focusing on the geometric parameters and coordinate offsets needed to calibrate a vision camera tool.
The learning path is a “teaching by demonstration” exercise. Users engage the robot’s “free-drive” mode, which allows them to physically grab and guide the virtual arm through 3D space. Through this interactive process, students set specific waypoints to build a functional motion program for an autonomous visual inspection task. By simulating the entire user journey, from learning the theory to creating their own robot programme, the application helps users to be ready to work with robots in real life.
