A Virtual Reality based Safeguards Surveillance Training Tool

This paper presents a Virtual Reality (VR) based application to provide awareness and basic training on surveillance concepts to future IAEA inspectors and analysts. This application benefits from the advantages of VR in terms of interactivity and variety of media to provide a complementary approach to classical training methods. This software application package includes a controlled area scenario and lets the user simulate and, ultimately, select the cameras, their position and orientation, their optical settings, and picture taking interval. One of the features is the possibility to simulate the motion of objects in the scenario, e.g., casks, and observe on whether daily object motion / transportation compromises the effectiveness of video surveillance. This application tool was recently used in a two pilot training courses at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The scope was to raise and refresh the awareness of staff, inspectors and analysts– to basic Safeguards surveillance concepts and planning the installation and setting of surveillance equipment. Additionally, the application may be used as a daily tool for determining the best settings of the surveillance equipment. The paper describes the requirements at the origin of this application, and implementation details (including the software and hardware platforms that were used). It discusses key technical (i.e., software, hardware) requirements for virtual environment training tools for the department of safeguards based on the development process and user feedback from the pilot courses held at the IAEA

MOLTO CARACENA Teofilo;  GONCALVES Joao;  PICKETT Susan; 

2014-02-07

ESARDA

JRC83126

978-92-79-32730-8,   

1831-9424,   

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC83126,