AR Interaction for Virtual Industrial Automation Layout
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack effective methods for efficiently interacting with and designing industrial automation systems within augmented reality environments, limiting user interaction and visualization capabilities.
Innovation Solution
An interactive augmented reality system that uses a head-mounted device to receive image data, generate visualizations of virtual industrial automation devices, and detect user gestures to modify these visualizations in real-time, allowing users to interact with virtual objects as if they were real, including selection, movement, coupling, and decoupling of devices based on detected gestures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional interaction methods are used in AR environments, then system complexity is reduced, but user interaction efficiency and visualization capability are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical interaction devices ( keyboards, mice, buttons) with gesture-based interaction. The head-mounted device captures hand movements and translates them into virtual manipulation commands, allowing users to interact with virtual industrial automation devices through natural hand gestures in the augmented reality environment.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates virtual copies of industrial automation devices within the augmented reality environment. These virtual devices replicate the appearance and functional characteristics of real devices, allowing users to design, visualize, and interact with them as if they were physical objects, thereby improving interaction efficiency without requiring physical prototypes.
2Loss of information
If detailed visualizations of virtual industrial automation devices are provided, then visualization capability is improved, but information processing requirements and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the visualization system into modular components: the head-mounted device for capturing gestures, the processing system for interpreting movements, and the rendering system for displaying virtual devices. This segmentation allows detailed visualizations to be generated through coordinated operation of specialized modules, improving visualization capability while managing system complexity through functional decomposition.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring virtual industrial automation devices with their operational parameters and visual characteristics before user interaction. This allows the system to quickly render detailed visualizations without real-time computation overhead, enhancing visualization capability while reducing the processing burden during actual interaction.
3Speed
If real-time gesture detection and visualization modification are implemented, then interaction responsiveness is improved, but processing speed requirements and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements periodic action through continuous but rhythmically structured gesture detection and visualization updates. The head-mounted device periodically captures hand movements at optimized intervals, and the system processes these inputs in discrete update cycles, maintaining real-time responsiveness while managing processing throughput to control system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A method may include receiving, via a processor, image data associated with a user's surrounding and generating, via the processor, a visualization that may include a virtual industrial automation device. The virtual industrial automation device may depict a virtual object within image data, and the virtual object may correspond to a physical industrial automation device. The method may include displaying, via the processor, the visualization via an electronic display and detecting, via the processor, a gesture in image data that may include the user's surrounding and the visualization. The gesture may be indicative of a request to move the virtual industrial automation device. The method may include tracking, via the processor, a user's movement, generating, via the processor, a visualization that may include an animation of the virtual industrial automation device moving based on the user's movement, and displaying, via the processor, the visualization via the electronic display.