Augmented reality in the smart factory: Supporting workers in an industry 4.0. environment
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TL;DR
This paper presents an augmented reality system that supports human workers in a rapidly changing production environment and presents the initial experience with this system, which has already been used successfully by several hundred users who had no previous experience in the assembly task.
Abstract
We present an augmented reality system that supports human workers in a rapidly changing production environment. By providing spatially registered information on the task directly in the user's field of view the system can guide the user through unfamiliar tasks (e.g. assembly of new products) and visualize information directly in the spatial context were it is relevant. In the first version we present the user with picking and assembly instructions in an assembly application. In this paper we present the initial experience with this system, which has already been used successfully by several hundred users who had no previous experience in the assembly task.