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Visualization of industrial engineering data in Augmented Reality

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This paper presents an innovative application of Augmented Reality (AR) techniques in the field of industrial engineering in which the user explores data from numerical simulations or the results of measurements and experiments, superimposed to the real object that they refer to. The user observes the object through a tablet PC, used as a video see-through handheld display. Data are visualized superimposed to the real object that represents a spatial reference relative to which the user can refer to, so the exploration is more natural compared to a traditional visualization software. Moreover, we have developed a new framework, called VTK4AR, that provides a set of useful software classes for the rapid development of AR applications for scientific visualization. VTK4AR is built on top of VTK (an open source API for scientific visualization), so it will be possible to employ a wide range of visualization techniques in many application fields, and moreover, it is possible to interactively manipulate data-sets in order to achieve a more effective way of visualization.

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Fabio Bruno: He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Calabria, Italy. He received a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering in 2001. In 2005, he received a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering at University of Calabria, Italy. The research activity mainly concerns the application of Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR & AR) to the design process of the industrial products.

Francesco Caruso: He is a PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering at University of Calabria, Italy. He received a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2004. His research focus on Computer Graphics and OpenGL programming especially in scientific visualization tasks, and Augmented Reality.

Luigi De Napoli: He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Calabria, Italy. He received a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering in 1993. From 1996 to 2000 he worked at Parametric Technology Italia as Application Engineer. He received a PhD degree in Design and Methods in Industrial Engineering in 2003 at the University of Bologna, Italy. His research activity mainly concerns the application of Reverse Engineering in Mechanical Engineering.

Maurizio Muzzupappa: He is an Associate Professor of Computer Aided Design at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Calabria, Italy. From 1989 to 1992, he frequented his Ph.D. at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Pisa, Italy. His current research activities include concurrent engineering (specific topics are the computer support of cooperating virtual engineering teams for design review), collaborative design, virtual and augmented reality and reverse engineering.

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Bruno, F., Caruso, F., nDe Napoli, L. et al. Visualization of industrial engineering data in Augmented Reality. J Vis 9, 319–329 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03181679

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