SecureAR

Secure AR service platform for industrial manufacturing

 

 
 

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Secure augmented reality for industry

OBJECTIVES

The objective of the project secureAR is to research and develop innovative services in the industrial production environment. The research field of augmented reality (AR) is to be transferred into applicable solutions.

For this purpose, a cloud-based service platform with open interfaces should be provided for various industrial sectors. The service platform collects data along the entire value chain, from planning and production processes to plant maintenance. It enables location- and situation-based provision and visualization of the data via a novel AR assistance system.

INNOVATION & METHODOLOGY

Within the scope of the project, software functions are combined with each other in a targeted manner and these are modularized so that they meet a flexible distributed use with the model of a microservice architecture.

The main challenges lie in the generic design of the software services and in the creation of a distribution concept for cross-user applicability in an industrial context.

OUR CONTRIBUTION

In the AR Base subproject, Gestalt Robotics develops industrial AR basic functions, such as object recognition, markerless localization and semantic mapping, and tests them on use cases of the project partners.

Furthermore, Gestalt Robotics is in charge of the development of the distributed software architecture and interfaces. Further efforts and development requirements lie in data acquisition for the recognition of general industrial object classes, in platform integration, e.g. in MindSphere, in (automated) deployment and in interface engineering for the integration of machines and process data in the application context.

 
 

Key facts

 

Software Architectures

  • Cloud and Edge Computing

  • Seamless scaling

  • Open interfaces and easy integration

 

Object Recognition

  • Optimization for mobile use

  • 6 DoF Pose detection and tracking

  • Data sets for industrial objects

 

AR-based Assistance

  • Support of manual activities with the right information at the right time

  • Integrate environmental understanding and context information

 

Self-Localization

  • Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

  • Precise self-localization in real time

  • Creation of semantic environment maps

 

PartnerS & CONSORTIUM

 

Siemens AG

Project management, development of platform-independent AR SDK, integration of MindSphere cloud solution into overall system, development of secure mobile HW platform, integration of new AR assistance system into industrial use cases

Airbus Operations GmbH

Development of a specific use case for aircraft manufacturing and maintenance, integration of the new AR assistance system

Kernkonzept GmbH

Development of an operating system for secure use in an industrial environment, research and implementation of the operating system architecture

Fraunhofer FEP

Coordination of HW development work, prototypical realization of a novel low-power information display with extended resolution and integration to an optical module

TU Dresden

Selection and specification of the hardware platform, design of a secure hardware and software architecture

Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin

Selection and specification of the hardware platform, design of a secure hardware and software architecture

 

Funding

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Program

“lnternetbasierte Dienstleistungen für komplexe Produkte, Produktionsprozesse und -anlagen (Smart Services)”

Duration

05.2020 – 04.2023

Project Management Agency

Projektträger Karlsruhe (PTKA)

 
 

ProjeCt poster

Project poster (German) as printable PDF

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This project is/was financed with funding provided by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research under the “lnternetbasierte Dienstleistungen für komplexe Produkte, Produktionsprozesse und -anlagen (Smart Services)” program and managed by the Project Management Agency Karlsruhe (PTKA). The author is responsible for the content of this publication.

Stefan