Virtual Reality Substation Laboratory (VRSL)
A faithful 3D simulation of the substation that powers UFC's Pici Campus, built to teach protection, automation and substation operation hands-on — like a game.
Sobre o simulador
Teaching how a real distribution substation works requires physical access to high-voltage equipment — expensive, risky, and limited to a handful of students at a time. Much of protection and automation content in Electrical Engineering is still taught from slides alone.
VRSL recreates, to scale, the substation that powers UFC's Pici Campus in 3D, split into two navigable environments: the Substation Yard (power transformers, disconnect switches, reclosers, current and potential transformers) and the Control Room (protection and automation panels with relays and a SCADA supervisory system). Students can explore the equipment on foot or fly a virtual drone over the yard, and trigger complete simulations of real fault events while following oscillograms and the protection-response diagram in real time.
- Two navigable environments: Substation Yard and Control Room
- Virtual drone to fly over and inspect the yard from any angle
- Full simulation of real fault events, with oscillograms and SCADA
- Ready-made lesson plan for the Generation, Transmission and Distribution course
Requisitos do sistema
- 8 GB DDR4 RAM
- 2 GB graphics card
- Intel i5 8th Gen processor (12 MB cache, up to 4.40 GHz)
- 256 GB SSD minimum
- 16 GB DDR4 RAM
- 4 GB graphics card
- AMD Ryzen 7 5000 series or 13th Gen Intel Core i5-13450HX (10 cores, 20 MB cache, up to 4.6 GHz)
- 256 GB SSD minimum