Construção de um simulador de realidade aumentada para aplicação na engenharia ambiental e sanitária

Abstract

The understanding and perception of the natural physical environment, relief and its forms is of fundamental importance for the Environmental and Sanitary Engineer in the development of his studies. The learning of concepts related to forms of relief is complex to understand, as most of the time they are presented on two-dimensional maps, inhibiting important connections during the teaching and learning process. In view of this, the Augmented Reality relief simulator appears, which unites the natural physical environment with the abstract environment, allowing the user to create topographic models in the sand, and in real time, generating a 3D representation with topographic contour lines projected on the modeled landforms. The objective of this study was to present and apply an augmented reality system integrated in real time, making it possible to create three-dimensional morphological models manually in a sandbox. The Augmented Reality relief simulator sought to represent relief in a didactic way in general, and it is also possible to simulate the movement of water flowing through channels and slopes from areas with higher topography to the bottom of a drainage basin. The work is justified by the potential for interaction and immersion that Augmented Reality Systems offer. The augmented reality sandbox was assembled at the UFFS Topography and Geoprocessing laboratory, campus Cerro Largo / RS, the study methodology is based on the prototype initially developed by the University of California - Davis campus. Using this technology, we hope to contribute with the understanding of landforms and encourage the study of the environmental area by relating landforms and changes in the environment over time. After carrying out some simulations, it was concluded that the augmented reality sandbox shows itself as a great potential to improve the understanding of the natural physical environment.