Virtualisation of AR systems for maintenance planning in immersive environments
| Project staff: | Dipl.-Ing. Erik Steindecker (former staff member) |
| Funding: | DFG |
Augmented reality (AR) is an innovative technology that offers great potential for cost savings, especially in the assembly and maintenance of complex products. In the current DFG project "Augmented Reality in virtuellen Umgebungen" (STE 1451/6-1), it was possible to prove that AR work documents can be tested in immersive environments and the correct use on the real product can be ensured.
The integration of the immersive test environment into the planning process of the AR working documents was not the content of the current research project. The creation of the AR working documents remains time-consuming and is characterised by many iteration loops as well as the frequent change between desktop, immersive environment and physical prototype. The goal of the follow-up project is to seamlessly integrate the immersive environment into the planning process and thus significantly reduce the time required to create the AR working documents. The development of suitable tools will enable the planner to select product representations directly on the virtual prototype, to pre-think work steps and to evaluate the result without delay. The evaluation of AR work documents on a variety of different AR systems in an immersive environment also remains unsolved. The proposed research project will therefore continue to investigate the possibility of virtualising AR components. With the use of such components, questions of optimal information provision can be examined and fields of vision, body postures and movement sequences can be tested with different AR systems without a great deal of technical equipment.