Study on virtual coordinate measuring machine based on augmented virtuality

In this paper, a new method for constructing a virtual coordinate measuring machine (VCMM) is proposed based on augmented virtuality. The VCMM consists of two main parts: hardware and software. An operation-simulating mechanism and a binocular-stereo vision system compose the hardware, which are used to the extract operation information of an operator. There are four modules in software, including hand-segmentation, motion-analysis, model-render and augmented-virtual module, which are used to integrate the physical information into the VCMM environment. To verify the proposed VCMM, experiments are conducted and the result shows it feasible and reliable.