Augmented Reality-based Visualization of the Reach of a Collaborative Robot

Fabio Schwarz, Maxim Feinleb, Gerrit Meixner

2022

Abstract

With increasing globalization and higher competition on the one hand, and the same high level of personnel costs on the other, the pressure on companies to rely more on automation is growing. At the same time, with increasing individualization and complexity of products, batch sizes are shrinking, making versatile production machines with quick production changes and easy set-up processes necessary. In order to still cope with the complexity and at the same time use the human worker only for responsible tasks, robots have to take over the tedious tasks and work together with the human worker at the same time. To enable this working condition, the collaborative robots need to be set up and installed at the human’s working place first. This increases the safety requirements and leads to a large installation effort. To tackle these problems, improve the set-up and to simplify the collaborative work of the robot and the human worker, an augmented reality application is presented that helps by visualizing the reach of the robot. The proposed solution uses Unity3D to create an augmented reality application which recognizes the robot with the help of ArUCO markers. Once recognized, the reach of the robot is shown in the application in such way that the human worker is able to see the reach of the robot.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Schwarz F., Feinleb M. and Meixner G. (2022). Augmented Reality-based Visualization of the Reach of a Collaborative Robot. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: CHIRA, ISBN 978-989-758-609-5, pages 70-77. DOI: 10.5220/0011561100003323

in Bibtex Style

@conference{chira22,
author={Fabio Schwarz and Maxim Feinleb and Gerrit Meixner},
title={Augmented Reality-based Visualization of the Reach of a Collaborative Robot},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: CHIRA,},
year={2022},
pages={70-77},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011561100003323},
isbn={978-989-758-609-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: CHIRA,
TI - Augmented Reality-based Visualization of the Reach of a Collaborative Robot
SN - 978-989-758-609-5
AU - Schwarz F.
AU - Feinleb M.
AU - Meixner G.
PY - 2022
SP - 70
EP - 77
DO - 10.5220/0011561100003323