Training activities play an important role in any industrial environment. Classical training methods, like on-the-job training, show many limits, considering also the wasting of productive time of skilled operators. Focusing on manual assembly lines, Augmented Reality looks very promising in representing a tool to assist operators: virtual instructions are provided real time via a display (e.g.: Head Mounted Display) and overlaid on the real environment. From a software point of view, however, AR implementation is quite difficult, time-consuming, and does not give any feedback concerning the action performed by the operator. Therefore, the aims of the paper are: i) to create a software routine able to guide programmers during AR implementation; ii) to combine AR and feedback sensors. The first aim has been accomplished by a “variant” approach, creating an interface for entering data characterizing each operation and connecting them in order to obtain a logical sequence. As a case study, the assembly of a simple electrical switch is used to show an application of the previous concepts.
Training by augmented reality in industrial environments: a case study
DINI, GINO
2012-01-01
Abstract
Training activities play an important role in any industrial environment. Classical training methods, like on-the-job training, show many limits, considering also the wasting of productive time of skilled operators. Focusing on manual assembly lines, Augmented Reality looks very promising in representing a tool to assist operators: virtual instructions are provided real time via a display (e.g.: Head Mounted Display) and overlaid on the real environment. From a software point of view, however, AR implementation is quite difficult, time-consuming, and does not give any feedback concerning the action performed by the operator. Therefore, the aims of the paper are: i) to create a software routine able to guide programmers during AR implementation; ii) to combine AR and feedback sensors. The first aim has been accomplished by a “variant” approach, creating an interface for entering data characterizing each operation and connecting them in order to obtain a logical sequence. As a case study, the assembly of a simple electrical switch is used to show an application of the previous concepts.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
