Lepatyev A. Methods and tools of increasing the efficiency of the development of simulators for operational personnel of enterprises of distribution networks

Lepatiev A.O. Methods and means of increasing the efficiency of the development of simulators for operational personnel of enterprises of distribution networks. – Qualifying scientific work on manuscript rights. Dissertation for obtaining the scientific degree of Doctor of Philosophy in specialty 122 "Computer Science". – Institute of Information Registration Problems, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, 2024. The dissertation presents the results of research carried out by the applicant, which fulfills the current scientific task of increasing the effectiveness of the development of computer simulators for the operational staff of enterprises of distribution networks in terms of economic and time. The efficiency of the development will be increased from the economic and time aspects of the development of the simulator. The object of the study is the methods of developing simulators and scenarios of simulator classes for training and maintaining the competence of operational personnel of enterprises of distribution networks. The subject of research of the dissertation work is the construction of scenarios for the execution of switchover forms for the training of operative personnel of enterprises of distribution networks. The topicality of the topic is explained by the fact that operational staff of distribution network enterprises must correctly and quickly react and act in the event of any dangers and emergency situations, and computer simulators show their high efficiency for training and maintaining the appropriate level of personnel qualifications, so it is worth implementing training sessions for staff. The task of optimizing the time for the development and implementation of these training scenarios is important, as it is necessary to train personnel in the shortest possible time. From the point of view of the efficiency of developing simulators and reducing the economic costs of development, it is beneficial for enterprises to reduce the development time of simulators. Current approaches to the development of simulators are focused on cooperation between programmers and branch specialists in the field of energy. This collaboration significantly increases development time. To reduce time costs, it is advisable to use a method of developing training sessions that does not require the involvement of programmers. In this method, the development of simulators should be carried out exclusively by specialists, which allows to significantly reduce the development time and eliminates the problem of maintaining and updating the software of the simulator. The following results were obtained in the dissertation work: - For the first time, a new method of developing training sessions for operative personnel of distribution network enterprises is presented. Exercises are developed using the designer of execution of switching forms, which is developed using the Unity environment. - For the first time, the method of full-format graphical slices for displaying mode values is presented, which has an innovative approach in displaying mode values using graphical slices. This method is used in the designer of the execution of switching forms. The obtained results are recommended to be used in practice. The use of the method of full-format graphic slices and the designer of the simulator for the execution of switching forms reduces time spent during the development of the simulator. The obtained results can contribute to the further development of increasing the efficiency of the development of simulators for operational personnel of enterprises of distribution networks