Augmented Reality Application in Digital Automation Laboratory

Traditional automation engineering education using physical training equipment while quite effective, suffers from several limitations in the case there is no equipment access, which can be due to many reasons such as social distancing or financial difficulties. This article proposes a solution to overcome these limitations with the combinational use of mixed reality (MR), which helps the student get used to training equipment they have no access to, and augmented reality (AR), which brings intuitive visualization into real equipment practice.