A New Flexible Augmented Reality Platform for Development of Maintenance and Educational Applications

Martínez, Héctor; Laukkanen, Seppo; Mattila, Jouni

doi:10.11159/vwhci.2014.003

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“…The work developed in this prototype has been integrated into a larger platform oriented to AR maintenance applications for large scale scientific facilities. The details of the mentioned platform can be found in [29].…”

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Towards an augmented reality guiding system for assisted indoor remote vehicle navigation

Martínez¹,

Laukkanen²

2015

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligen

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Scientific facilities usually require the use of vehicles controlled remotely by an operator relying on the information provided by a camera. However, the operator lacks of depth perception, which makes difficult the navigation. Providing additional information by means of Augmented Reality (AR) may enhance the safety and accuracy of the navigation. AR has been used in outdoor navigation systems. However, the technologies for outdoor systems cannot be directly ported to indoor environments and hence new techniques are required. Although several works for AR-based human indoor navigation have been proposed, to our best knowledge there are no similar studies for assisted indoor remote vehicle navigation. In this paper, a new prototype for assisted indoor remote vehicle navigation is proposed. The prototype provides the operator with an augmented view of the remote scene and complemented with additional features. The prototype has been tested in a small-scale setup with promising results.

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Towards an augmented reality guiding system for assisted indoor remote vehicle navigation

Martínez¹,

Laukkanen²

2015

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligen

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“…44 Maintenance of critical facilities such as aviation, nuclear plant, and mechanical industry using AR has been established in past researches. [58][59][60] As of today, AR applications are not designed to assist the inspector in real time to access data that can inform their decisions. Real-time, seamless AR interface with data fully enables inspectors during their fieldwork but has not been realized to date.…”

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Enabling human–infrastructure interfaces for inspection using augmented reality

Maharjan

Aguero

Mascareñas

et al. 2020

Structural Health Monitoring

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Decaying infrastructure maintenance cost allocation depends heavily on accurate and safe inspection in the field. New tools to conduct inspections can assist in prioritizing investments in maintenance and repairs. The industrial revolution termed as “Industry 4.0” is based on the intelligence of machines working with humans in a collaborative workspace. Contrarily, infrastructure management has relied on the human for making day-to-day decisions. New emerging technologies can assist during infrastructure inspections, to quantify structural condition with more objective data. However, today’s owners agree in trusting the inspector’s decision in the field over data collected with sensors. If data collected in the field is accessible during the inspections, the inspector decisions can be improved with sensors. New research opportunities in the human–infrastructure interface would allow researchers to improve the human awareness of their surrounding environment during inspections. This article studies the role of Augmented Reality (AR) technology as a tool to increase human awareness of infrastructure in their inspection work. The domains of interest of this research include both infrastructure inspections (emphasis on the collection of data of structures to inform management decisions) and emergency management (focus on the data collection of the environment to inform human actions). This article describes the use of a head-mounted device to access real-time data and information during their field inspection. The authors leverage the use of low-cost smart sensors and QR code scanners integrated with Augmented Reality applications for augmented human interface with the physical environment. This article presents a novel interface architecture for developing Augmented Reality–enabled inspection to assist the inspector’s workflow in conducting infrastructure inspection works with two new applications and summarizes the results from various experiments. The main contributions of this work to computer-aided community are enabling inspectors to visualize data files from database and real-time data access using an Augmented Reality environment.

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“…In order to alleviate this content authoring issue, the models in literature allow defining a language that will specify entity features in the VR scenes, as well as possible interactions users can carry out. Several approaches exist: either UML-based (Querrec et al, 2013;Martínez, et al, 2014;Bouville et al, 2015 ;Richard et al, 2018) or ontology-based (Barot, 2014;Hervás et al, 2010;Havard et al, 2017). UML-based approaches are powerful since they use a standardized formalism used by many tools.…”

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