31 May 2024
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In a corner of InnovSpace, Ahlem is loading the first-aid drone that she and four of her friends have developed. “We chose to design a rescue drone, capable of providing first aid to an injured person in the mountains”, explains Lilian, who is standing next to her. A drone… that only Ahlem can see, with his augmented reality helmet over his eyes. The object is virtual. It was created by the students on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform
Developed by Dassault Systèmes, this platform can be used to create the digital twin of any product and simulate all the stages in its life cycle. “It’s cutting-edge software, because its portfolio of applications is complete. It includes more than 400 applications used in industry, which makes it possible to virtually carry out an engineering project from A to Z,” explains Thomas Zamolo, head of the module at ISAE-SUPAERO. “Something that would be impossible in real life.”
Deployed in 2023 by the ISAE Group schools as part of an academic partnership with Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is used at ISAE-SUPAERO to train students on the Industrial Engineering apprenticeship, Master’s and Advanced Master’s® courses. It will be extended to the General Engineering course at the start of the new academic year in September.
A public utility drone, 100% digital
For the time being, the module that Thomas Zamolo and Luc Patouillard have created around the platform is aimed at 3rdᵉ year apprenticeship students, “to put into practice the skills they have acquired during the first two years”.
Based on the digital twin of a commercial drone, accessible in the software, they have to imagine and manufacture a payload that meets a customer need. Working in groups of five, the students have 90 hours to devise the specific features of their drone, design their payload, identify the right materials, manufacture the parts and assemble them, test the mechanisms and robustness of their product and finalise it. All in a 100% digital environment. “You can do everything with it,” says Ahlem. You can model your product in 3D or run a dynamic simulation of each component and each element that makes it up.
The final sessions, held at InnovSpace, the Institute’s fablab and incubator, are an opportunity for the students to bring their projects to life. In workshops, they will be able to manipulate their drone using virtual reality, print a 3D model and even draw up a marketing plan for its commercialisation.
“A global vision of the project”
Thanks to this module, future apprentice engineers can strengthen their skills in systems engineering, mechatronics, finite element simulation and manufacturing engineering, while improving their project management skills. “The interface offered by 3DEXPERIENCE brings them closer to what they will use in business. The difference is that in a company, they will never have access to the entire portfolio of applications. Through this project, we are giving them a global vision of the business applications used in industry”, notes Thomas Zamolo.
Each half-day course gives learners the opportunity to acquire a new skill, in line with the skills-based approach gradually being developed at the Institut. And some curious students go even further! This was the case for Ahlem and Lilian’s group: “In the applications catalogue, we came across a sheet metal module that we could use to create an aluminium box. We worked out how to use it ourselves.”
Towards joint projects with the ISAE Group
Another advantage of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is its collaborative and secure nature. Data is stored on the cloud managed and secured by Dassault Systèmes on French soil,” notes Thomas Zamolo. Thanks to this, teachers and students have easy access to secure storage spaces and can share their work with other members of the ISAE Group.
Now that the platform has been deployed in six other member and partner schools of the ISAE Group (ISAE-ENSMA, ISAE-Supméca, ESTACA, ESTIA, EIGSI and ELISA Aerospace), the teachers plan to take the collaboration even further. “We plan to set up a joint project with the ISAE Group. We could, for example, imagine an engineering project carried out by groups of students from each school, who would work in a complementary way, depending on the specialisation of each school”.
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