TY - GEN
T1 - Enabling Customizable Workflows for Industrial AR Applications
AU - Lehrbaum, Valeriya
AU - MacWilliams, Asa
AU - Newman, Joseph
AU - Sudharsan, Nischita
AU - Bien, Seongjin
AU - Karas, Konstantin
AU - Eghtebas, Chloe
AU - Weber, Sandro
AU - Klinker, Gudrun
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Augmented Reality (AR) is increasingly considered for use in real industrial applications [8]. In our industrial research lab at Siemens Technology, we are continuously discussing suitable AR scenarios in business sectors involving power plants, wind turbine plants, and oil and gas factories. We have developed a company-internal AR system architecture, Hololayer, which provides AR facilities in a reusable manner to development engineers such that they can build their own AR applications for their specialized use cases. The integration of AR technology into industrial processes encounters many complex issues: we need to adhere to many safety, security and quality guarantees while also adapting quickly to the rapidly changing state of the art of AR devices (HMDs, tablets). To increase flexibility, it might be good to integrate Hololayer with one of the open frameworks that have recently been proposed [11], [29], [38]. Yet, care must be taken when converting an already existing, large company-owned framework like Hololayer to such platforms. Some of the proposed standardized APIs and communication protocols may be difficult to abide by, without requiring significant rewriting efforts or even violating company-internal regulations. In this paper, we report on our efforts to combine Hololayer with one such platform, Ubi-Interact [38]. This is a collaboration between Siemens technology and the FAR group at TU Munich. After exemplary descriptions of typical application scenarios, we present the underlying principles of Hololayer to support this range of applications. We then describe rudimentary concepts of Ubi-Interact, followed by an elaboration on the efforts to combine both systems for a selected application scenario and a discussion of the results achieved thus far.
AB - Augmented Reality (AR) is increasingly considered for use in real industrial applications [8]. In our industrial research lab at Siemens Technology, we are continuously discussing suitable AR scenarios in business sectors involving power plants, wind turbine plants, and oil and gas factories. We have developed a company-internal AR system architecture, Hololayer, which provides AR facilities in a reusable manner to development engineers such that they can build their own AR applications for their specialized use cases. The integration of AR technology into industrial processes encounters many complex issues: we need to adhere to many safety, security and quality guarantees while also adapting quickly to the rapidly changing state of the art of AR devices (HMDs, tablets). To increase flexibility, it might be good to integrate Hololayer with one of the open frameworks that have recently been proposed [11], [29], [38]. Yet, care must be taken when converting an already existing, large company-owned framework like Hololayer to such platforms. Some of the proposed standardized APIs and communication protocols may be difficult to abide by, without requiring significant rewriting efforts or even violating company-internal regulations. In this paper, we report on our efforts to combine Hololayer with one such platform, Ubi-Interact [38]. This is a collaboration between Siemens technology and the FAR group at TU Munich. After exemplary descriptions of typical application scenarios, we present the underlying principles of Hololayer to support this range of applications. We then describe rudimentary concepts of Ubi-Interact, followed by an elaboration on the efforts to combine both systems for a selected application scenario and a discussion of the results achieved thus far.
KW - Human-centered computingHuman computer interaction (HCI)Interaction ParadigmsMixed/Augmented Reality
KW - Human-centered computingUbiquitous and mobile computing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85146433200&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ISMAR55827.2022.00079
DO - 10.1109/ISMAR55827.2022.00079
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85146433200
T3 - Proceedings - 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR 2022
SP - 622
EP - 630
BT - Proceedings - 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR 2022
A2 - Duh, Henry
A2 - Williams, Ian
A2 - Grubert, Jens
A2 - Jones, J. Adam
A2 - Zheng, Jianmin
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 21st IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR 2022
Y2 - 17 October 2022 through 21 October 2022
ER -