Currently, VR and AR headsets are becoming widespread. In addition to entertainment purposes, these technologies are increasingly being used in education, science, medicine, and engineering. The remote maintenance monitoring technologies make it possible to significantly expand the possibilities of using services for remote maintenance and repair complex technical systems by highly qualified specialists. However, the problems of implementing such systems in a wide range of tasks are complicated by the presence of a wide variety of solutions of this kind and the high price of such models. In this paper, we investigate a new smartphone-based augmented reality device for industrial tasks. The article describes augmented reality glasses based on a mobile phone (system "DAR"), which combines the functions of VR and AR technologies and a low cost of the final product. The proposed solution combines a helmet with a smartphone, which transmits information about the surrounding space and connects the augmented reality elements built on this image. Information about the surrounding space comes to the smartphone screen from stereo cameras equipped with autofocus. Images captured in such a system suffer from low contrast and faint color. We present a new image enhancement algorithm based on multi-scale block-rooting processing. This solution makes it possible to expand AR technology scope for remote maintenance of complex technical systems by highly qualified specialists at remote sites since using a smartphone and a DAR headset will be sufficient. Some experimental results are presented to illustrate the performance of the proposed algorithm on the real and synthesized image datasets.
The COVID-19 pandemic has unexpectedly transformed the access and the organization of repair services for industrial equipment. Operation or maintenance and a breakdown of industrial equipment require interaction with the specialists of the equipment manufacturer. The personal presence of a specialist repairman at an industrial facility leads to high financial costs, which consist of losses from prolonged downtime of equipment and production in general and transportation costs. A way out in such situations can be remote work of enterprise engineers and an expert of an equipment supplier, organized using a remote assistant's hardware and software complex. The article compares AR systems by numerous parameters in the following groups: software functionality, technical features for software operation, data security, compatibility requirements. This analysis will allow potential users of such systems to determine the optimal implementation approach in production based on the required parameters. The correct choice of such systems will ensure that employees can work safely and efficiently in production, reduce the risk of incorrect work and reduce production downtime.
Currently, VR and AR headsets are becoming widespread. Such technologies make it possible to significantly expand the possibilities of using services for remote maintenance and repair complex technical systems by highly qualified specialists. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for service representatives of manufacturing enterprises from foreign countries using such funds has increased significantly. Restrictive measures on movement between states limit the possibility of interaction between manufacturers' representatives (without losing the quality of work performed), so AR technology has become virtually uncontested. The article describes augmented reality glasses based on a mobile phone (system "DAR"), which combines the functions of VR and AR technologies and a low cost of the final product. The proposed solution combines a helmet with a smartphone, which is used to transmit information about the surrounding space and connect the augmented reality elements built on this image. Information about the surrounding space comes to the smartphone screen from stereo cameras equipped with autofocus. It allows the user to transmit the picture with a minimum delay and high quality. The low cost of the final device is ensured by stereo cameras, a module with sensors, and housing for attaching to the user's head. Processing of information about movement, sound transmission, and superposition of augmented reality elements is done using a smartphone. This solution makes it possible to expand AR technology scope for remote maintenance of complex technical systems by highly qualified specialists at remote sites since using a smartphone, and a DAR headset will be sufficient. The device's proposed technical solutions allow providing a high IP class, which is necessary for industrial use.
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