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Augmented reality system for aiding engineering design process of machinery systems

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The paper presents the application of augmented reality for aiding product design and development of machinery systems. Augmented reality technology integrates an interactive computer-generated word with an interactive real word in such a way that they appear as one environment. AR technology can enhance a user’s perception of the real world with information that is not actually part of the scene but is relevant to the user’s present activity. Presented in the AR system is a mode for changing views of data — especially 3D models — allowing the user to understand the prospective machinery system in a more comprehensive way, thus making the design process more efficient than the one supported by conventional present-day CAD systems. The presented prototype system contains an expert system integrated with AR system and allows the delivering of knowledge to the designer about successive steps of the design process of a mobile robot and practical solutions of realized constructional problems. An approach concerning AR enables the system user to analyze and verify solutions (represented as 3D models) relative to real scenes/objects. This approach is advantageous because the real environment around us often provides a vast amount of information that is difficult to duplicate in a computer. In some cases, the application of an AR system could be an optimal way to verify developed products.

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  1. Department of Fundamentals of Machinery Design, Silesian University of Technology, Konarskiego 18A, 44-100, Gliwice, Poland

    Marcin Januszka & Wojciech Moczulski

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This scientific work is partially financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland) — grant No. NN502448339 “The method for aiding design process with the use of Augmented Reality”.

Marcin Januszka is currently a Ph.D. student in Departament of Fundamentals of Machinery Design at Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice (Poland). His research interests include augmented and virtual reality technologies, methods in computer-aided design, design of mobile robots. His current research topic is application of augmented reality in product development process. He received his M.Sc. degree in management and production engineering from the Silesian University of Technology (Poland) in 2007. He has participated in several research projects in the field of mobile robotics and virtual reality.

Wojciech Moczulski is a professor in the Department of Fundamentals of Machinery Design at Silesian University of Technology at Gliwice (Poland). His researches are focused on: design and operation of the machines, computer science, particularly in machinery diagnostics and application of methods and means of artificial intelligence. He is author and co-author of over 130 publications. He is the holder of scholarship of Humboldt’s Foundation at University in Paderborn (Germany). He managed researches at Wichita State University and University of North Carolina in Charlotte (USA) and many others. Since 2005 he has been Associated Editor of “Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence”. Since 2002 he has been serving as Organizing Committee Chair of the international Symposium on Methods of Artificial Intelligence (AI-METH). He is founder and member of the Central Board of the Polish Society of Technical Diagnostics.

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Januszka, M., Moczulski, W. Augmented reality system for aiding engineering design process of machinery systems. J. Syst. Sci. Syst. Eng. 20, 294–309 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11518-011-5170-1

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