Augmented reality as a comparison tool in automotive industry

Journal of Emerging research and solutions in ICT, 2016

The visual representation of a product and the role of visualization have recently become a central issue in design research. By enhancing a real scene with computer generated objects, Augmented Reality (AR), has proven itself as a valuable Human-Computer Interface (HCI) in numerous application areas such as medical, military, entertainment and manufacturing. Also AR has potentials in design because the current interface provided by Computer-Aided Design (CAD) packages is less intuitive and reports show that the presence of physical objects help design. In this paper we proposed approach that user can create own 3D augmented reality scenes which enables interaction between real world and virtual object at the same time. For this purpose BuildAR software is applied using marker-based camera tracking and 3D object is obtained with standard CAD system SolidWorks.

Design visualization in a more intuitive and clear way plays an important role in achieving proper understanding of the design. The technology of augmented reality (AR), as a kind of new user interface, should introduce completely new perspective for the computer aided design systems. Augmented reality mode for changing views of the model and completely understanding the model content is more efficient than traditional one. Despite the fact that it is still a new technology at a relatively initial state of development, augmented reality is very promising. This paper describes initial results of the research concerning an augmented reality system for CAD design. Application of an integrated CAD and AR system proposed by the authors should play an important role in achieving proper understanding of the model content and it will become an integral part of a standard design process.

2006

This paper presents an innovative application of Augmented Reality (AR) techniques in the field of industrial engineering in which the user explores data from numerical simulations or the results of measurements and experiments, superimposed to the real object that they refer to. The user observes the object through a tablet PC, used as a video see-through handheld display.

2016

Article history: Received 26 November 2016 Received in revised form 27 December 2016 Accepted 29 December 2016 Available online 30 December 2016 Augmented Reality is one of the most significant and remarkable trends in the manufacturing field, where the ability to test and evaluate products in the real world environment before deploy it to market, makes AR as an important factor in manufacturing development process, however, AR researches still few and most of it not up-to-date, because AR applications is very limited in manufacturing field. This paper gives a pilot review on the most applications of Augmented Reality in manufacturing engineering, in order to urge researchers and Augmented Reality scholars to focus and study them, hopefully to expand Augmented Reality applications in manufacturing. This paper focus on giving simple idea about the main points that Augmented Reality covers in relation to the manufacturing stages.

2016

In the aviation industry, many faults may occur frequently during the maintenance processes and assembly operations of complex structured aircrafts because of their high dependencies of components. These faults affect the quality of aircraft parts or developed modules adversely. Technical employee requires long time and high labor force while checking the correctness of each component. In addition, the person must be trained regularly because of the ever-growing and changing technology. Generally, the cost of this training is very high. Augmented Reality (AR) technology reduces the cost of training radically and improves the effectiveness of the training. In this study, the usage of AR technology in the aviation industry has been investigated and the effectiveness of AR with heads-up display glasses has been examined. An application has been developed for comparison of production process with AR and manual one.

2016

The advanced technologies find their application in many areas of todays' human life. This provides the engineers with a new ability in the area of technical visualization in different formal or informal engineering processes. Augmented and virtual reality are visualization technologies in which the virtual objects are combined with the real ones and coexist in the same space, or completely substitute the reality with computer modelled environment. In their nature, these technologies open up opportunities for their application in various processes in the area of automotive engineering. In this stage of development of these visualization technologies, initial steps have to be made for their use in engineering tasks in the area of automotive engineering. Real expectations exist that these technologies can serve as additional tools in the processes like vehicle approval or vehicle maintenance, or as an additional tool in the hands of the experts that make the crash forensics. This paper presents the results of conducted research in the direction of use of technical solutions for visualization of vehicles in different areas of the automotive engineering, presenting their positive characteristics along with their limitations.

International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology

The visual representation of a product and the role of visualization have recently become a central issue in design research. By enriching a real scene with computer generated objects, Augmented Reality, has proven itself as a valuable Human-Computer Interface in numerous application areas, such as medicine, military, entertainment and manufacturing. In this paper we propose an approach by which a user can create own 3D augmented reality scenes that enable interaction between the real world and virtual assembly's components, while including an animation at the same time. For this purpose, BuildAR Pro software is employed using marker-based camera tracking, while assembly design is obtained with standard CAD system SolidWorks. The animations are developed in 3ds max software package in order to save the assembly as .ive file format, which is helpful to increase the performance of scene rendering and/or viewing.

Journal of Visualization, 2006

This paper presents an innovative application of Augmented Reality (AR) techniques in the field of industrial engineering in which the user explores data from numerical simulations or the results of measurements and experiments, superimposed to the real object that they refer to. The user observes the object through a tablet PC, used as a video see-through handheld display. Data are visualized superimposed to the real object that represents a spatial reference relative to which the user can refer to, so the exploration is more natural compared to a traditional visualization software. Moreover, we have developed a new framework, called VTK4AR, that provides a set of useful software classes for the rapid development of AR applications for scientific visualization. VTK4AR is built on top of VTK (an open source API for scientific visualization), so it will be possible to employ a wide range of visualization techniques in many application fields, and moreover, it is possible to interactively manipulate data-sets in order to achieve a more effective way of visualization.

2007

Abstract Construction companies employ CAD software during the planning phase, but what is finally built often does not match the original plan. The procedure of validating the model is called" discrepancy check". The system proposed here allows the user to easily obtain an augmentation in order to find differences between the planned 3D model and the built items. The main difference to previous body of work in this field is the emphasis on usability and acceptance of the solution.

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings

His research interests include knowledge-based engineering systems, computer-integrated design and manufacturing, Finite Element Analysis, software development and applications as well as remote and virtual laboratories.