Authors:
Fabio Schwarz
1
;
Maxim Feinleb
1
and
Gerrit Meixner
2
Affiliations:
1
Robotic Testing and System Engineering, Festo SE & Co. KG, Ruiter Straße 82, Esslingen, Germany
;
2
UniTyLab, Heilbronn University, Max-Planck-Str. 39, Heilbronn, Germany
Keyword(s):
Augmented Reality, Collaborative Robot, Unity3D, Robot, Cobot.
Abstract:
With increasing globalization and higher competition on the one hand, and the same high level of personnel costs on the other, the pressure on companies to rely more on automation is growing. At the same time, with increasing individualization and complexity of products, batch sizes are shrinking, making versatile production machines with quick production changes and easy set-up processes necessary. In order to still cope with the complexity and at the same time use the human worker only for responsible tasks, robots have to take over the tedious tasks and work together with the human worker at the same time. To enable this working condition, the collaborative robots need to be set up and installed at the human’s working place first. This increases the safety requirements and leads to a large installation effort. To tackle these problems, improve the set-up and to simplify the collaborative work of the robot and the human worker, an augmented reality application is presented that hel
ps by visualizing the reach of the robot. The proposed solution uses Unity3D to create an augmented reality application which recognizes the robot with the help of ArUCO markers. Once recognized, the reach of the robot is shown in the application in such way that the human worker is able to see the reach of the robot.
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