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IR to introduce VR Based Simulators for Driver Training
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ecoming a Grade One Loco Pilot running a
premier [Shatabdi / Rajdhani] Train in India is
no mean task. From date of joining, it can take
up to 30 years : Assistant Loco Pilot [Diploma] –
10 Years Shunter– 5 Years Freight Pilot– 5
Years All-Stop Passenger Pilot – 2 to 5 Years
Mail Express Pilot – 2 to 5 Years Grade One Loco Pilot. A
Driver Training Simulator can help shorten this process and
also improve driver efficiency. Unfortunately, super-expensive
motion-based simulators require massive infrastructure,
limiting their installations to only a handful of Driver Training
Centres all over the country.
Stemming from the above requirement, IR recently on-
boarded a new technology that provides non-motion-based
full-function Virtual Reality simulators. This innovative
solution, christened “EcoSafe” by its developers, provides
compact size and lower cost [about one-fourth the cost
of a regular motion-based simulator] without any loss in
functionality, allowing massive scalability.
The first unit of EcoSafe is being built for IR’s New Train-18
Trainset by Prag Group of Industries using software and
technology from REDS SA, Poland. EcoSafe will provide
the actual Train-18 driver controls and functionality in Virtual
Reality and will come with a 35 km test route that will model
the actual signaling, track profiling, etc. of IR. Additionally, the
physical console will include the actual driver’s desk and all
controls. The product will be backed by cloud-based software
ensuring real-time maintenance, upgrade, and service
support.
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Besides training, there are two additional key features (1)
Measurement of Efficiency [M.O.E], i.e. the level of fuel /
electricity consumption and how the same can be optimized
through better driving, and (2) Measurement of Emergency
Response Time [M.E.R.T] using artificial simulated scenarios
such as falling of a tree, vehicle or cattle on track, and track
disruptions / undulations. Loco Pilots can be graded based
on their driving efficiency and Emergency Response Time.
By regular training on EcoSafe, Loco Pilots can improve both
these scores.
Conventionally, to get training, a loco pilot has to take
a ‘leave-of-absence’ from duty and travel to a Training
Centre. “IR has more than 200 Loco Pilot lobbies in its
network. With the EcoSafe Concept, now – for the first
time – it is possible to bring the trainer to the trainee”,
says Gokul Jain, CEO, Prag Group.
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