Augmented Reality for Manual Assembly Station Using Smart Glasses
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.46842/ipn.cien.v26n2a01Keywords:
augmented reality, smart glasses, Industry 4.0Abstract
Manual assembly tasks in the manufacturing industry continue to be indispensable for some types of processes. Being manual tasks, their instructions are defined by worksheets or visual aids established in methods engineering. This paper presents the implementation of an Augmented Reality (AR) application, which is an enabling technology for Industry 4.0, using Google Glass Enterprise 2 smart glasses. With the developed application, the assembly instructions of a manual assembly station established in the worksheet or visual aid are displayed on the screen of the smart glasses, preventing the operator from interrupting his activities to review the tasks he is performing.
References
A. A. Correa-Espinal, R. A. Gómez-Montoya, C. Botero-Perez, “La Ingeniería de Métodos y Tiempos como herramienta en la Cadena de Suministro,” Rev. Soluciones Postgrado EIA, no. 8, pp. 89–109, 2012.
R. García Criollo, Ingeniería de métodos y medición del trabajo, 2a ed., México: McGraw-will Interamericana, 2005.
K. Xu, Q. Zhao, Y. Kong, H. Li, “Auxiliary Assembly Human-Machine Interaction Method Based on Smart Glasses,” Proc. - 2019 11th Int. Conf. Intell. Human-Machine Syst. Cybern. IHMSC 2019, vol. 2, pp. 33–36, 2019.
A. Doshi, R. T. Smith, B. H. Thomas, C. Bouras, “Use of projector based augmented reality to improve manual spot-welding precision and accuracy for automotive manufacturing,” Int. J. Adv. Manuf. Technol., vol. 89, no. 5–8, pp. 1279–1293, 2017.
A. Saptari, J. X. Leau, N. A. Mohamad, “The effect of time pressure, working position, component bin position and gender on human error in manual assembly line,” IEOM 2015 - 5th Int. Conf. Ind. Eng. Oper. Manag. Proceeding, 2015.
A. Blaga, C. Militaru, A. D. Mezei, L. Tamas, “Augmented reality integration into MES for connected workers,” Robot. Comput. Integr. Manuf., vol. 68, 2021.
D. Tatić, B. Tešić, “The application of augmented reality technologies for the improvement of occupational safety in an industrial environment,” Comput. Ind., vol. 85, pp. 1–10, 2017.
V. Kohn, D. Harborth, “Augmented reality - A game changing technology for manufacturing processes?,” Conference: Twenty-Sixth European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2018), Portsmouth, UK, 2018.
A. E. Uva, M. Gattullo, V. M. Manghisi, D. Spagnulo, G. L. Cascella, M. Fiorentino, “Evaluating the effectiveness of spatial augmented reality in smart manufacturing: a solution for manual working stations,” Int. J. Adv. Manuf. Technol., vol. 94, no. 1–4, pp. 509–521, 2018.
A. Macallister et al., “Comparing Visual Assembly Aids for Augmented Reality Work Instructions,” Proceedings of the 2017 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC, no. 17208, 2017.
E. Bottani, G. Vignali, “Augmented reality technology in the manufacturing industry: A review of the last decade,” IISE Trans., vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 284–310, 2019.
A. Rohrer, R. Hendrix, “Principles for Applying Augmented Reality in Manufacturing,” 2018 IEEE MIT Undergrad. Res. Technol. Conf. URTC 2018, pp. 21–24, 2018.
A. Carvalho, F. Charrua-santos, T. M. Lima, “Augmented Reality in Industrial Applications : Technologies and Challenges,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Pilsen, Czech Republic, July 23-26, pp. 875–883, 2019.
D. Youm, S. Seo, J. Kim, “Design and development methodologies of Kkongalmon , a location-based augmented reality game using mobile geographic information,” EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, vol. 2, pp. 1–12, 2019.
M. Suoheimo and A. Colley, “Exploring Head Mounted Display based Augmented Reality for Factory Workers,” MUM 2018: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, Nov. 2018, pp. 499–505, doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3282894.3289745
Google, Discover Glass Enterprise Edition, 2022. https://www.google.com/glass/start/.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2022 Instituto Politecnico Nacional
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
