Wide Area Tracking Method for Augmented Reality Supporting Nuclear Power Plant Maintenance Work

Ishii, Hirotake; Yan, Wei; Shou-feng, Yang; Shimoda, Hiroshi; Izumi, Masanori

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“…By superimposing computer generated objects on the real environment and tracking their three-dimensional physical positions, augmented reality allows nuclear facility workers to intuitively interact with the physical and virtual worlds. Specifically, augmented reality technology can effectively navigate workers to a workplace while showing dangerous areas to avoid, and overlaying physical parameters of critical components and environment (e.g., dose rate) on the workers' field-of-view while in the nuclear facilities (Ishii et al, 2007).…”

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“…Tracking and display techniques that measure the threedimensional physical coordinates of workers and allows visualization of such information are the enabling technology for augmented reality to become an effective tool for nuclear facilities maintenance and safety tasks. Marker-based tracking technology, which measures the position between the markers (placed on the target object) and the sensors (imagers), has been extensively studied for applications in nuclear facilities (Shimoda et al, 2004(Shimoda et al, , 2005Ishii et al, 2007Ishii et al, , 2014. It was found that traditional square markers were not suitable for nuclear power plants because a large marker size was required for long-distance tracking, which is a common requirement in nuclear facilities.…”

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“…It was found that traditional square markers were not suitable for nuclear power plants because a large marker size was required for long-distance tracking, which is a common requirement in nuclear facilities. A hybrid circular marker design, which consists of circles of various sizes, was proposed and successfully tested for longand close-distance tracking in nuclear power plants (Ishii et al, 2007). In addition, to account for the common occurrence of pipe structures in nuclear facilities, a new line marker (barcode) was proposed to further reduce the marker size for practical tracking (Shimoda et al, 2005).…”

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“…Because nuclear facilities are usually very large (tens of meters in length), to expand the tracking field-of-view, a multi-camera tracking system with a novel stereo, hybrid markers-based tracking algorithm was developed. This system provides a 3x wider angle of view than a single camera (Ishii et al, 2007) for wide area tracking (Ishii et al, 2014). Also, various off-the-shelf display devices are studied for their effectiveness and feasibility for use with augmented reality technology in nuclear facilities (Ishii et al, 2007).…”

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“…This system provides a 3x wider angle of view than a single camera (Ishii et al, 2007) for wide area tracking (Ishii et al, 2014). Also, various off-the-shelf display devices are studied for their effectiveness and feasibility for use with augmented reality technology in nuclear facilities (Ishii et al, 2007). Recently, a holistic, mixed reality system with a colored finger-tip-based tracking and gesture recognition method coupled with a videobased, see-through head-mounted display was proposed and experimentally studied to improve the effectiveness and reduce intervention time for maintenance and repair tasks in nuclear power plants (Abate et al, 2013).…”

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This work presents a novel, comprehensive framework that leverages emerging augmented reality headset technology to enable smart nuclear industrial infrastructure that a human can easily interact with to improve their performance in terms of safety, security, and productivity. Nuclear industrial operations require some of the most complicated infrastructure that must be managed today. Nuclear infrastructure and their associated industrial operations typically features stringent requirements associated with seismic, personnel management (e.g., access control, equipment access), safety (e.g., radiation, criticality, mechanical, electrical, spark, and chemical hazards), security (cyber/physical), and sometimes international treaties for nuclear non-proliferation. Furthermore, a wide variety of manufacturing and maintenance operations take place within these facilities further complicating their management. Nuclear facilities require very thorough and stringent documentation of the operations occurring within these facilities as well as maintaining a tight chain-of-custody for the materials being stored within the facility. The emergence of augmented reality and a variety of Internet of Things (IoT) devices offers a possible solution to help mitigate these challenges. This work provides a demonstration of a prototype smart nuclear infrastructure system that leverages augmented reality to illustrate the advantages of this system. It will also present example augmented reality tools that can be leveraged to create the next generation of smart nuclear infrastructure. The discussion will layout future directions of research for this class of work.

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A structured review on game‐based learning applied to electrical power and energy engineering

Giraldo,

Kok,

Paterakis

2023

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It has been reported that electrical engineering schools might be facing a decline in newly enrolled students combined with an increase in the number of dropouts due to motivation and engagement problems. At the same time, companies in the electric power industry require safe and realistic training environments for their trainees to reduce induction program times, costs, and accidents. Game‐based learning (GBL) applications offer alternatives in both sectors, that is, education and training, for increasing engagement, motivation, and knowledge transfer in controlled environments. This paper aims to show applications of GBL techniques towards educational and training objectives in electrical power and energy systems in the period spanning from 2002 to 2021. This review points to two main research questions: what GBL tools have been used for education and training purposes in electrical power and energy systems during 2002 to 2021? Also, what are the methodologies used for assessing the efficacy of using GBL applications in electrical power and energy systems? A structured review methodology was applied to identify how GBL has been used in electrical power and energy systems. A total of 81 papers were selected for full review. The procedure included the formulation of research questions, identification and selection of studies, and data synthesis of results. Our review showed that most GBL applications in electrical power and energy systems were developed with education purposes (63%), from which 29% used graphic user interfaces and 23% used serious games. On the other hand, for training purposes, the most popular GBL tool was virtual reality, applications of which were discussed in 56% of the reviewed papers. The review also showed that only 42% of the education papers and 37% of the training papers performed learning efficacy analyses; in which qualitative postevaluations or postsurveys were the most popular methodologies used in over 50% of those papers.

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Augmented Reality Applications Assisting Maintenance Activities in Extreme Environments: HCI Issues

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Beltramello

2014

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Maintenance of complex technology artifacts in hazardous environments can be a risky and demanding procedure. Operators need to be both efficient and meticulous in their activities in order to ensure the quality of their maintenance activities and the effectiveness of the limited time spent in the hazardous environment. Thus, an intuitive AR informative system could improve the operators' efficiency during their presence in the hazardous environment. What are the Human-Computer Interaction implications that arise in such applications?

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Wide Area Tracking Method for Augmented Reality Supporting Nuclear Power Plant Maintenance Work

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Augmented Reality for Enabling Smart Nuclear Infrastructure

Augmented Reality for Enabling Smart Nuclear Infrastructure

A structured review on game‐based learning applied to electrical power and energy engineering

Augmented Reality Applications Assisting Maintenance Activities in Extreme Environments: HCI Issues

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