Title :
Smart Workbench: A multimodal and bidirectional assistance system for industrial application
Author :
Sascha Niedersteiner;Clemens Pohlt;Thomas Schlegl
Author_Institution :
OTH Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
Abstract :
Manual tasks in industrial production are often monotonous, leading to a decrease in concentration and motivation of the worker and thus to deficiencies in the products. With quality as well as performance requirements getting more and more stringent, workers need additional support by their work environment. We developed a novel approach providing worker assistance and inline quality assurance for manual workplaces. The prototypical system Smart Workbench (SWoB) uses a multimodal sensor interface consisting of a 3D depth sensor in combination with a 2D camera to control quality aspects of the product and track the work progress. The bidirectional flow of information is handled via an image processing driven gestural interface and the displaying of advice directly on the work surface. In this paper the developed system is introduced and the current state of evaluating its industrial usage with a manual quality control and packaging task reported.
Keywords :
"Cameras","Employment","Software","Three-dimensional displays","Production","Manuals","Packaging"
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2015 - 41st Annual Conference of the IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/IECON.2015.7392549