Product Tests in Virtual Reality: Lessons Learned during Collision Avoidance Development for Drones

摘要

Virtual reality (VR) and real-world simulations have become an important tool for productdevelopment, product design, and product tests. Product tests in VR have many advantages, such asreproducibility and shortened development time. In this paper, we investigate the virtual testing of acollision avoidance system for drones in terms of economic benefits. Our results show that virtualtests had both positive and negative effects on the development, with the positive aspects clearlypredominating. In summary, the tests in VR shorten the development time and reduce risks andtherefore costs. Furthermore, they offer possibilities not available in real-world tests. Nevertheless,real-world tests are still important.