Bosch Trains Automotive Mechatronics With AR Technology

With a broad range of system-related technical trainings and advanced trainings, a total of 31 Bosch Training Centers worldwide support automotive workshops in keeping up with technical developments concerning vehicle servicing and repair.

The training center in Plochingen, close to Stuttgart, Germany, develops the courses and trains more than 3 500 workshop employees annually. For the first time ever, Bosch will now use the AR technology for its technical service trainings thus literally increasing the transparency of the training contents for the participants.

Automotive mechatronics can get acquainted with the new training technology free of charge after pre-registration. By means of AR, the differences between hybrid and fully electric vehicles, the functions and features of different high-voltage components as well as troubleshooting strategies, among others, are explained to the participants. The transparent AR-assisted depiction provides the mechatronics with a detailed insight into the structure and the functionality of high-voltage components.

Starting in autumn/winter 2018, Bosch will offer the first service training supported by AR, the two-day apprenticeship for “high-voltage technicians - working on intrinsically safe HV vehicles“ carried out at the Bosch Service Training Centers in Plochingen and Ballerup, Denmark. Once they passed the final exam, the trainees are allowed to de-energize HV systems of hybrid, electric and fuel-cell vehicles and to work on HV components. An additional service training for the “calibration of driver assistance systems“ supported by Augmented Reality is planned as well.

Bosch developed a special Augmented Reality Platform (CAP) specifically for AR applications. It allows publishing new contents and applications, also for the training sector in particular, in a device-independent manner. Fed with locally and centrally stored contents, the platform compiles the required data for each specific AR application. This even allows different training scenarios to be implemented.