Ship painting personnel usually employ physical, hands-on training to enhance their proficiency and improve the quality of their painting. However, this method poses environmental pollution problems and has high costs. Therefore, this paper develops a ship artificial spraying simulation training system based on a Virtual Reality (VR) environment. Firstly, a artificial spraying model for a ship for personnel training is established by the relationship between the gun parameters, gun position, spraying direction, and coating thickness. A method for calculating the coating thickness and coating loss by using a frame cycle in a VR environment is proposed. And the artificial spraying model is verified from these two perspectives by a spraying test. Finally, based on the artificial spraying model, a ship spraying simulation training system is developed by combining C# and Unity3D, and a corresponding scoring mechanism is established to evaluate the spraying results. By recruiting personnel with different spraying experiences to wear VR helmets for spraying training trials, the results show that the method of using VR for spraying training can effectively improve the spraying level of operators with different spraying experiences.
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