Study of Perception and Cognition in Immersive Digital Twins for Robotic Assembly Processes

Today, various types of extended reality (XR) environments are becoming increasingly used in industrial engineering contexts for design, analysis as well as for training activities. User’s perception plays a key role especially in such XR based learning and training contexts. Perception refers to the process by which individuals become aware and process the stimuli around them. Interdisciplinary researchers have studied the vital relationship between perception and cognition. In this groundbreaking study, the role of perception and its impact on cognition and learning in fully immersive Virtual Reality (VR) based digital twins is discussed. Schemas have been proposed to help lay the foundation to study the role of perception on cognition and learning. The primary outcomes of this research study underscored the relationships between perception and cognition while also emphasizing the impact of a participant’s background in influencing their perception of the target robotics assembly environments.