Augmented Reality for Digital Manufacturing
Andreea Dalia Blaga, Levente Tamás · 2018
The focus of this paper is on enhancing the possibilities of manufacturing operations by taking advantage of augmented reality (AR) technology and highlighting its benefits by implementing a product manufacturing case. The latter appearance of augmented headsets, such as the Microsoft HoloLens allows more opportunities for creating innovative solutions. After introducing concepts about smart manufacturing, improvements regarding human-robot collaboration in assembly tasks are presented. The developed scenario is based on the integration of AR, a cobot, a see-through device, a digital twin and an algorithm for assembly visualization. This approach pledges a compelling interaction of the 3D real and virtual unit, so that the operator can work in a more intuitive environment. This methodology has been implemented on a assembly case to investigate users' enhanced perception using the virtual world while cooperating with the robot.