Industrial Augmented Reality

INDUSTRIAL AUGMENTED REALITY

MITIGATING RISKS AND MAXIMIZING WORKER SAFETY WHEN INTEGRATING AR TECHNOLOGIES INTO OCCUPATIONAL WORKFLOWS.

Technologies for augmented reality (AR) head-worn displays (HWDs) are rapidly advancing. With complementary advancements in complementing, content-producing technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), workers will soon have the ability to access vast amounts of data from within ad hoc ecosystems of devices & information sources.

Through widespread adoption of technology and the IoT, we can easily envision the emergence of smart work sites where physical work systems (e.g., infrastructure, materials, tools and vehicles) and computer-based systems (e.g., digital project information, IoT data, and HWDs) intersect at human perception and cognition. With forthcoming volumes of relevant data at hand, the challenge will not be availability of meaningful data, but Instead how to represent data, and more importantly how presentation of data affects worker performance in the broadest sense.

TO THIS END, WE ARE WROKING TO:

   Understand how to leverage AR to extend human capabilities without compromising operator performance and safety.

   Forge new connections that marry AR capabilities with machine learning, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and automation.

   Establish new empirically validated connections between AR information presentation fidelity, primary task performance, behavior, mental workload and situation awareness in occupational settings

   Create new AR-based learning tools to reskill today’s workers into tomorrow’s workforce.

   Develop assessment methods for AR HWD user interfaces and technologies to be used in outdoor workplace settings

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

Yimin Qin, Eric Bloomquist‡, Tantel Bulbul, Joseph L. Gabbard & Kyle Tanous. (2021). "Impact of Information Display on Worker Performance for Wood Frame Wall Assembly Using AR HMD under Different Task Conditions." Advanced Engineering Informatics 50 (2021): 101423. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2021.101423

Michele Fiorentino, Francesco Laera, Alessandro Evangelista, Antonio Boccaccio, Vito M. Manghisi, Michele Gattullo, Antonio E. Uva & Joseph L. Gabbard, and Mario M. Foglia. (2021). "Sailing Data Visualization in Augmented Reality: Systematic Review, Issues, and Perspectives." Marine Technology Society Journal 55, no. 2: 64-80.

Francesco Laera, Michele Fiorentino, Alessandro Evangelista, Antonio Boccaccio, Vito M. Manghisi, Joseph L. Gabbard, Michele Gattullo, Antonio E. Uva, and Mario M. Foglia (2021). "Augmented Reality for Maritime Navigation Data Visualisation: A Systematic Review, Issues and Perspectives." The Journal of Navigation, 1-18.

Michele Gattullo, Alessandro Evangelista, Antonio Emanuele Uva, Michele Fiorentino & Joseph L. Gabbard, (2020), "What, How, and Why are Visual Assets used in Industrial Augmented Reality? A Systematic Review and Classification in Maintenance, Assembly, and Training (from 1997 to 2019)." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

Francesco Laera, Mario M. Foglia, Alessandro Evangelista, Antonio Boccaccio, Michele Gattullo, M. Vito, Joseph L. Gabbard, E. Antonio, and Michele Fiorentino. "Towards Sailing supported by Augmented Reality: Motivation, Methodology and Perspectives." In 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct), pp. 269-274. IEEE, 2020.

•Jared Van Dam‡, Alexander Krasner‡ & Joseph L. Gabbard. "Augmented Reality for Infrastructure Inspection with Semi-autonomous Aerial Systems: An Examination of User Performance, Workload, and System Trust." In 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), pp. 743-744. IEEE, 2020.

•Eric T. Bloomquist‡, Joseph L. Gabbard, Kyle Tanous, Yimin Qin, and Tanyel Bulbul. "Framing the Scene: An Examination of Augmented Reality Head Worn Displays in Construction Assembly Tasks." In 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), pp. 791-792. IEEE, 2020

•Jared Van Dam‡, Alexander Krasner‡ & Joseph L. Gabbard. "Drone-based Augmented Reality Platform for Bridge Inspection: Effect of AR Cue Design on Visual Search Tasks." In 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), pp. 201-204. IEEE, 2020.