XR Context Mapping for Industrial Automation Data Overload
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to effectively present data to users in industrial environments, often overwhelming or hindering them due to inappropriate amounts or formats of data, which can obstruct task performance and relevance.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that utilize extended reality devices to receive sensory datasets, determine context information, and present output representative data based on user positioning within a virtual coordinate system, optimizing data presentation to improve task guidance and efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If data is presented to assist user task performance, then task guidance is improved, but the amount or format of data may overwhelm or hinder the user
Solution Approach 1:
The system presents data with different visual characteristics (colors, transparency, size) based on the user's specific location and context within the industrial environment. Data relevant to the user's current position and task is emphasized while less relevant data is minimized or hidden, creating a localized, context-aware data presentation that avoids overwhelming the user.
Solution Approach 2:
The data presentation is dynamically adjusted based on real-time user positioning data and context information. As the user moves through the industrial environment, the system automatically updates which data is presented, how it is formatted, and its visual prominence, ensuring that the data remains relevant and manageable throughout the task.
2Ease of operation
If data is presented in multiple formats and locations, then data accessibility is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The extended reality device serves multiple functions: it tracks user position, processes context information, filters sensory datasets, and presents data in appropriate formats. By consolidating these functions in a single universal device rather than separate systems, the solution improves data accessibility while managing overall system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A non-transitory computer-readable medium includes instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry, are configured to cause the processing circuitry to receive sensory datasets associated with an industrial automation system from sensors, receive positioning data via an extended reality device associated with a user, determine a first virtual positioning of the user in a virtual coordinate system based on the positioning data, determine a second virtual positioning of an industrial automation system in the virtual coordinate system based on the sensory datasets, determine output representative data to be presented by the extended reality device based on the plurality of sensory datasets and in accordance to the first virtual positioning relative to the second virtual positioning, and instruct the extended reality device to present the output representative data.