A Virtual Reality Based System for Remote Maintenance of Rotating Machinery

Bellamine, Moez; Abe, Norihiro; Tanaka, Kazuaki; Chen, Peng; Taki, Hirokazu

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-30121-9_16

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“…through a remote-controlled robot rather than instructing another person. Application examples exist in the form of sedentary robots for the remote maintenance and inspection of machinery [26], [27] or hazardous environments e.g. nuclear [7], [28] or fusion [29] power plants.…”

Section: Telemanipulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reach Out and Help: Assisted Remote Collaboration through a Handheld Robot

Stolzenwald,

Mayol-Cuevas

2019

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We explore a remote collaboration setup, which involves three parties: a local worker, a remote helper and a handheld robot carried by the local worker. We propose a system that allows a remote user to assist the local user through diagnosis, guidance and physical interaction as a novel aspect with the handheld robot providing task knowledge and enhanced motion and accuracy capabilities. Through experimental studies, we assess the proposed system in two different configurations: with and without the robot's assistance in terms of object interactions and task knowledge. We show that the handheld robot can mediate the helper's instructions and remote object interactions while the robot's semi-autonomous features improve task performance by 24%, reduce the workload for the remote user and decrease required communication bandwidth between both users. This study is a first attempt to evaluate how this new type of collaborative robot works in a remote assistance scenario, a setup that we believe is important to leverage current robot constraints and existing communication technologies.

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Section: Telemanipulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reach Out and Help: Assisted Remote Collaboration through a Handheld Robot

Stolzenwald,

Mayol-Cuevas

2019

Preprint

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“…Abate et al [26] presented a better solution, which is a combination of VR techniques and haptic interaction to simulate machine assembly maintenance process for aerospace industry. Collaborative VR has been used to develop remote maintenance operation simulation [27][28][29]. Virtual maintenance systems were also applied in maintenance task planning [30], maintenance planning [31], and maintenance process simulation [32].…”

Section: Virtual Maintenancementioning

confidence: 99%

A visualization system for integrating maintainability design and evaluation at product design stage

Peng

Hou

Gao

et al. 2011

Int J Adv Manuf Technol

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Thoughtful consideration of products maintenance features early in design stage can reduce or eliminate maintenance costs, reduce downtime, and improve safety. As such, the effective collaboration of product designers and maintenance technicians throughout the product design process is becoming much more important for the most advanced competitiveness. To address this need, a visualization system that enables maintainability-related technicians cooperated with product designers in a networked manufacturing environment is proposed in this study. This paper presents a systematic approach to implementation of a Web-based visualization system by using virtual reality technology. The system aims at providing a simulated environment and concurrent engineering processes to facilitate communication, coordination, control, and integration of product maintainability validation and improvement activities. The result of this research will help increase product maintainability, reduce development cycle time and cost, and hence increase product marketability.

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“…developed and introduced the concept of maintainability analysis visualization under the AutoCAD environment to analyze product design from the viewpoint of easy maintenance. Collaborative virtual reality (VR) has been used to develop remote maintenance operation simulation . Abbas Barabadi et al .…”

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“…Collaborative virtual reality (VR) has been used to develop remote maintenance operation simulation. [8][9][10] Abbas Barabadi et al 11 considered the time-dependent and timeindependent covariates. However, most of these models and methods do not consider the residue problem that badly influences the accuracy of the allocation.…”

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A System's Mean Time To Repair Allocation Method Based on the Time Factors

Zhou

et al. 2013

Quality & Reliability Eng

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The aim of the maintenance allocation is to allocate the maintenance time to the subsystems reasonably and accurately. Traditional mean time to repair (MTTR) allocation methods are widely used in the industry. However, there are many deficiencies in practical application, which is inconsistent with the purpose of the maintenance allocation. To allocate the MTTR more precisely and reasonably, a better model is needed. The aim of this paper is to develop a maintenance allocation model, which can improve the applicability and operability, and solve the residue problem that exists in maintenance allocation. A case study is used to demonstrate how the model can be applied in practice. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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A Virtual Reality Based System for Remote Maintenance of Rotating Machinery

Cited by 10 publications

References 2 publications

Reach Out and Help: Assisted Remote Collaboration through a Handheld Robot

Reach Out and Help: Assisted Remote Collaboration through a Handheld Robot

A visualization system for integrating maintainability design and evaluation at product design stage

A System's Mean Time To Repair Allocation Method Based on the Time Factors

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