Topic
Topic
Augmented Reality (AR) is a new innovation that can be used to connect the physical and virtual
worlds through visual interfaces. We augment this current reality by overlaying virtual universes
to provide more useful data. Innovation can be associated with learning, distraction, training, or
encouragement by enhancing the customer's impression and association with this current reality.
Training technicians to acquire new maintenance and assembly skills is important for various
industries. Because maintenance and assembly tasks can be very complex, training technicians to
efficiently perform new skills is challenging. Training of this type can be supported by
Augmented Reality, a powerful industrial training technology that directly links instructions on
how to perform the service tasks to the machine parts that require processing. Because of the
increasing complexity of maintenance tasks, it is not sufficient to train the technicians in task
execution. Instead, technicians must be trained in the underlying skills—sensor motor and
cognitive—that are necessary for the efficient acquisition and performance of new maintenance
operations. These facts illustrate the need for efficient training systems for maintenance and
assembly skills that accelerate the technicians’ acquisition of new maintenance procedures.
Furthermore, these systems should improve the adjustment of the training process for new
training scenarios and enable the reuse of worthwhile existing training material. In this context,
we have developed a novel concept and platform for multimodal Augmented Reality-based
training of maintenance and assembly skills, which includes sub-skill training and the evaluation
of the training system. Because procedural skills are considered as the most important skills for
maintenance and assembly operations, we focus on these skills and the appropriate methods for
improving them.