Augmented Reality Conveyor Model Interaction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current virtual and augmented reality systems are primarily designed for entertainment and lack industrial utility, limiting their application in facilitating the design, installation, and interaction with industrial conveyor systems in real-world environments.
Innovation Solution
An augmented reality system that includes a display device, a database with a three-dimensional model of a conveyor system, and a processor, allowing users to interactively view and manipulate the conveyor system within a real physical environment, enabling movement, measurement, and virtual operation of the system in real-time, while maintaining a combined view of the real and virtual environments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If entertainment-focused virtual reality systems are used, then immersive experience is provided, but industrial utility is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system combines entertainment VR capabilities with industrial applications, allowing the same hardware platform to serve multiple purposes. The augmented reality display device can present both entertainment content and industrial conveyor system information, making the system universally applicable across different domains.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an augmented reality display device as an intermediary between the user and the conveyor system. This mediator presents virtual conveyor system information overlaid on the real physical environment, enabling industrial applications without requiring dedicated specialized equipment.
2Loss of information
If a complete three-dimensional model of the conveyor system is displayed, then comprehensive information is provided, but complexity of the system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The three-dimensional conveyor system model is segmented into multiple components including conveyor belts, support structures, and utility features. Each component can be independently viewed and interacted with, allowing comprehensive information presentation while maintaining manageable system complexity through modular representation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses three-dimensional virtual models overlaid on the two-dimensional physical environment, adding a spatial dimension to the information presentation. This allows comprehensive conveyor system information to be displayed without increasing physical device complexity, as the additional information exists in a virtual dimensional space.
3Measurement precision
If real-time combined view of physical environment and virtual model is provided, then interaction accuracy is improved, but processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the virtual three-dimensional conveyor model with the real physical environment view into a single augmented reality display. This combination enables accurate real-time interaction by presenting both virtual and physical information simultaneously in one unified interface, reducing the need for separate processing systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the conveyor system that mirrors the physical system's structure and behavior. This digital twin can be manipulated and measured in real-time with high precision while the processing requirements are managed through efficient rendering and synchronization of the copy with the physical system.
4Ease of operation
If user interaction controls for movement and measurement are added, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The augmented reality system provides self-service interaction capabilities where users can directly manipulate the virtual conveyor model through intuitive gestures or commands. The system automatically handles measurement calculations and movement adjustments without requiring complex external control devices, enabling ease of operation while managing interface complexity through automated functions.
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AI summary
An augmented reality system includes a display device defining a display area, a database containing a three-dimensional model of a conveyor system, a communication link between the database and the display device, and a processor. The processor is operable to display the three-dimensional model of the conveyor system on the display area. The display allows a human user to see a real time combined view of the real physical environment, including a building and features thereof, and the three-dimensional model of the factory automation system within the building. A user interface has controls operable to effect one or both of: movement of the displayed conveyor system within the building, and measurement between features of the building and the displayed conveyor system.