Within smart factories, there is an increasing interest to involve Augmented and Virtual Reality. The rising market of AR and VR promises to offer new interfaces for industrial robots and the connected plant infrastructure, which provide intuitive status access or even control to the plant. Especially for close cooperation between humans and robots (human-robot coproduction) it is necessary that the intent of the robot is communicated, so that the human knows what the robot is about to do. This technology would also be handy for applications which require co-location of a remote person, like an expert involved in remote support, maintenance, planning or optimization. The game engine Unity has evolved to one of the most used visualization platforms for AR / VR devices at the moment – one reason for Siemens to build the ROS-Sharp module (https://github.com/siemens/ros-sharp). The goal of this project is to bring this attempt even one step further and enable a visualization platform for AR / VR devices, especially for the Microsoft Hololens. This platform should not only ensure a stable and reliable communication of sensor data, but also should enable users to build their own interfaces for their robots. Objectives: The proposed software module should provide … Continue reading Rvis2AR – Visualization platform for AR / VR devices