AR ENHANCED INSPECTOR
This solution provides a fully automated inspection of wind turbine towers for painting defects in production, providing defect-detection of over 95%. Accompanying the automated detection of all defects, a mobile AR-app allows finding defects reliably and documenting the repair process, thus also providing an over 95%-rate for locating and fixing detected defects.
Project: ZDZW
Publisher: AIMEN, FRAUNHOFER, UPV
Technology: Fully automated computer-vision-system
Industry: Wind turbine towers
INTRODUCTION
The AR-Enhanced Inspector is able to locate and visualize painting defects on wind-turbine-tower-segments via augmented reality with a hand-held device. Accurate defect-detection is performed in an initial step by a fully automated computer-vision-system, also available in the ZDZW-context. For reliably finding and fixing detected defects, workers are guided to them by navigational overlays, augmenting the real-world. For traceability of the repair-process they can document repair-activities by taking pictures and adding textual or graphical annotations.
FEATURES/BENEFITS
- Features:
- Connection to the ZDZW-system for automated defect detection.
- Location of a hand-held device relative to the wind-turbine-tower-segment.
- Worker guidance via Augmented Reality.
- Immediate repair-documentation in the AR-app
- Benefits
- Makes inspection less error-prone, as machines are more reliable than humans.
- Saves time for workers, as they can quickly locate defects.
- Makes fixing defects less error-prone, by reliably guiding workers to defect locations via Augmented Reality.
- Makes the repair-process traceable by allowing easy documentation and annotation.
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