APPLICATION OF AUGMENTED REALITY IN MANUAL ASSEMBLY DESIGN AND PLANNING

Abstract

Assembly design and planning during the initial product design stage are highly significant to industrial product development. Augmented reality (AR) is a technology in which intuitive interaction experience is provided to the users by combining the real environment with various computer-generated texts, images, 3D CAD models, etc. AR technologies have opened up a powerful set of tools for computer-aided assembly design and planning. In this research, an AR interactive manual assembly design and planning (ARIMADP) system has been developed to support manual assembly design with a 3D natural bare-hand interaction (3DNBHI) interface. The ARIMADP system is a constraint-based assembly simulation, design, and planning system that can be used by the users to simulate manual assembly process without the need for any auxiliary CAD information.