Augmented Reality System for Guidance (ARSGuide)
Overview of project objectives
ARSGuide in the Media
Under the following links, you will find reports and publications on our project (in German):
In the ARSGuide project we develop, together with the Spanish company SINERCO S.L., a solution, which allows engineers and technicians to access context-related product information from different information sources throughout the entire life-cycle of a product (e.g. in product development or industrial maintenance). The user accesses the information through an Augmented Reality user interface on a tablet or smartphone. Thereby, the user can look at already manufactured parts through the tablet or smartphone, combine them with digital models and quickly access the information that is relevant for the current assignment.
Within the project Softplant develops an intelligent module, which semantically integrates a company’s product data and provides the user with exactly the information needed for the safe and efficient completion of the task at hand. Softplant’s Living Semantic Platform serves as the basis for this module.
Liebherr-Hydraulikbagger GmbH joined the project as an industrial application partner to apply and test the developed solution approaches and solutions in an early stage. As a real-world scenario a step-by-step error diagnosis of a machine has been defined. The localization of parts that need to be checked was supported using Augmented Reality. Moreover, relevant information from operating manuals, service documentations and spare part catalogs have been determined using context information and presented to the user. The gained findings from the cooperation was not only a valuable input for the further development of the ARSGuide solution but also provided Liebherr some exciting ideas for digitisation.
ARSGuide is a transnational collaborative MANUNET ERA-NET project. The project consortium comprises the SINERCO S.L. and the Softplant GmbH. The participation of Softplant in this research and development project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the Framework Concept “Research for Tomorrow’s Production” and managed by the Project Management Agency Karlsruhe (PTKA).