Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering (한국CDE학회논문집)

Society for Computational Design and Engineering (한국CDE학회)
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A Team-based Firefighter Training Simulator for Complex Buildings

대형 복합건물을 대상으로 하는 소방관 팀 훈련용 시뮬레이터 개발

  • 이재경 (한국기계연구원 시스템신뢰성연구실) ;
  • 차무현 (한국기계연구원 시스템신뢰성연구실) ;
  • 최병일 (한국기계연구원 플랜트안전연구설) ;
  • 김태성 ((주)에이알비전 기술연구소)
  • Received : 2011.04.04
  • Accepted : 2011.08.29
  • Published : 2011.10.01
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Abstract

The increasing complexity of complex buildings, such as high-rise buildings and underground subway stations, presents new challenges to firefighters. In a fire in complex buildings, the importance of the collaboration between firefighters is clear. The increased demand on firefighter training for such environment is now evident. Due to cost, time, and safety issues, it is impossible to experience a real fire in such environments for training. In addition, the use of real fire for training does not enable repeatable training and the evaluation of the training is difficult. We developed a team-based firefighter training simulator for complex buildings using the virtual reality technology. It provides the training and evaluation of firefighting and mission-based team training. To model real fire phenomena in virtual space, a numerical analysis method based on fire dynamics is used. To achieve an immersive virtual environment, an augmented reality technique for the compensation of real world image and a haptic technique for heat experience are adopted. The developed training simulator can help the firefighter to respond to large and complex firefighting scenarios, while maintaining the safety of the trainees.

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