Virtual Reality (VR) simulation is a computer technology that replicates a real environment, and simulates a user's physical presence and environ -ment to enable user interaction. VR simulations artificially create sensory experience, which can include sight, touch and hearing.
Widely used in the transport industry and in architecture, VR meets the need to increase efficiency, optimize costs and planning. Applied to a nuclear facility, VR can help from design to dismantling: optimize concep tion before the building, train people in operation and optimize scenarios in dismantling.
The software IDROP
IDROP is a new software developed by the CEA, made up through the collaboration between CEA-List and the CEA's energy group. IDROP includes XDE core offers a global approach taking into account dose rate, remote handling and human operations.
iDROP offers 5 modules :
- The PHYSICS MODULE calculates forces and collisions and avoids object penetration ;
- The ROBOTICS MODULE includes the main industrial robots (about 40) which can operate in nuclear facilities ;
- The VIRTUAL HUMAN MODULE enables the simulation of manual operations taking into account the human degrees of freedom and features ;
- The DOSE RATE MODULE integrates MERCURE calculation code and esti -ma tes dose rate received at any point taking into account the radiological data ;
- The IMMERSIVE MODULE enables the simulation to be connected to immersive VR and AR devices.