The application of augmented reality technologies for the improvement of occupational safety in an industrial environment

Tatić, Dušan; Tešić, Bojan

doi:10.1016/j.compind.2016.11.004

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“…Nuclear power plants' maintenance is expensive and complex [41], hence lot of procedural documentation is produced. Minimising their down time and safety is essential [22]. These concepts have been shown in the past by Nakagawa [42] who predicted the increasing challenge of maintenance for the nuclear industry.…”

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A systematic review of augmented reality applications in maintenance

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Erkoyuncu

Roy

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Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

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Augmented Reality (AR) technologies for supporting maintenance operations have been an academic research topic for around 50 years now. In the last decade, major progresses have been made and the AR technology is getting closer to being implemented in industry. In this paper, the advantages and disadvantages of AR have been explored and quantified in terms of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for industrial maintenance. Unfortunately, some technical issues still prevent AR from being suitable for industrial applications. This paper aims to show, through the results of a systematic literature review, the current state of the art of AR in maintenance and the most relevant technical limitations. The analysis included filtering from a large number of publications to 30 primary studies published between 1997 and 2017. The results indicate a high fragmentation among hardware, software and AR solutions which lead to a high complexity for selecting and developing AR systems. The results of the study show the areas where AR technology still lacks maturity. Future research directions are also proposed encompassing hardware, tracking and user-AR interaction in industrial maintenance is proposed.

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Section: Field Of Applicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A systematic review of augmented reality applications in maintenance

Palmarini

Erkoyuncu

Roy

et al. 2018

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

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232

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“…Even less research in this area addresses human resource management. This observation was a motivation for our project focused on of the author towards an application of AR in combined human resources management and occupational safety improvement in industry environments [20,21]. In this paper, we extend our research in the same direction, that is, towards further applications.…”

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“…For this research, we chose the electro-energetics industry in order to test our system for providing safety and work instructions by taking into account both the complexity of the task that needs to be performed and the expertise of the worker to whom the task is assigned. Compared to previous work reported in [21], main differences and new issues addressed in the present considerations can be summarized as follows.…”

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confidence: 85%

“…In this paper, we extend our research in the same direction, that is, towards further applications. The goal is to show that the same principles and the corresponding system as in [21] can equally be applied in another industry environment and with different tasks which should be performed under considerably stronger demands from occupational safety point of view.…”

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An augmented reality system for improving health and safety in the electro-energetics industry

Tatić

2018

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Occupational safety has a crucial role in every technological process in industry environments. Recently, smart mobile devices have become standard hardware that can help inform workers about their duties and procedures during work. In this paper, we present an augmented reality (AR) system for mobile devices as a tool for safeguarding health and safety, and the secure performance of tasks in a technological process by following virtual instructions in the workplace. In a case study, we explored the task procedures and defined the risk factors in the electro-energetics industry. Based on that, we implement a corresponding AR system that should be used to issue occupational safety and work instructions to workers during task execution. With that aim in mind, we designed a client-server architecture to project the related instructions on the screen of the mobile device, to ensure the confirmation of implementing them, as well as to keep a record of all the steps the worker performed. As an illustrative example, we present the application of the designed AR system to particular tasks in electro-energetics industrial plants.

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“…The data processing is conducted offline on large volumes of acquired data. In [259], the authors apply AR technologies for the improvement of occupational safety in industrial environments. The application is installed on workers' mobile devices that are used as the input and output of the system.…”

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Data Management in Industry 4.0: State of the Art and Open Challenges

2019

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Information and communication technologies are permeating all aspects of industrial and manufacturing systems, expediting the generation of large volumes of industrial data. This article surveys the recent literature on data management as it applies to networked industrial environments and identifies several open research challenges for the future. As a first step, we extract important data properties (volume, variety, traffic, criticality) and identify the corresponding data enabling technologies of diverse fundamental industrial use cases, based on practical applications. Secondly, we provide a detailed outline of recent industrial architectural designs with respect to their data management philosophy (data presence, data coordination, data computation) and the extent of their distributiveness. Then, we conduct a holistic survey of the recent literature from which we derive a taxonomy of the latest advances on industrial data enabling technologies and data centric services, spanning all the way from the field level deep in the physical deployments, up to the cloud and applications level. Finally, motivated by the rich conclusions of this critical analysis, we identify interesting open challenges for future research. The concepts presented in this article thematically cover the largest part of the industrial automation pyramid layers. Our approach is multidisciplinary, as the selected publications were drawn from two fields; the communications, networking and computation field as well as the industrial, manufacturing and automation field. The article can help the readers to deeply understand how data management is currently applied in networked industrial environments, and select interesting open research opportunities to pursue.

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The application of augmented reality technologies for the improvement of occupational safety in an industrial environment

Cited by 103 publications

References 10 publications

A systematic review of augmented reality applications in maintenance

A systematic review of augmented reality applications in maintenance

An augmented reality system for improving health and safety in the electro-energetics industry

Data Management in Industry 4.0: State of the Art and Open Challenges

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