Desarrollo de software para las prácticas virtuales del laboratorio de sensores y transductores : implementación de dos prácticas virtuales para el laboratorio de sensores y transductores relacionadas con la variable nivel mediante software interactivo.

Abstract

Virtual teaching has revolutionized education-society in order to obtain new educational methods so that students can interact and learn on various platforms or 2D/3D environments. This paper explains the design, development and implementation of two virtual practices related to the level variable for the Sensors and Transducers laboratory using interactive software as a virtual instrumentation tool. In order to help the student to know 2 level sensors that are the potentiometric ""Float Type"" and the ""Capacitive"", their characteristics, external and internal structure, operating principle and electrical connections in an interactive way. The development of the virtual practices was carried out by modeling the necessary 3D objects in the Blender and Autodesk Inventor software, where elements of measurement, conditioning, visualization were made and then relate it to the Unity 3D graphic engine to be able to implement the practices, in such a way create and program interactive scenes through scripts with a C# programming language in Microsoft Visual Studio. In such a way that the student interacts with a virtual laboratory emulating being in a real laboratory of Sensors and Transducers related to the level variable, in the practices after conditioning, it will be possible to observe in the display elements the values of voltages in multimeters, the level current on a 16x2 LCD and with a ruler located on the tank.