Abstract

Most of todays machine tools are equipped with windows, allowing the operator to observe the current process. These windows need to fulfill high safety requirements, but provide no further functionality.In this paper, we will introduce the concept for an intelligent machine window, which will replace current windows in machine tools, to allow the observation of the machine interior at any time and provide enhanced functionality to the operator. To achieve this, the machine interior must be visualized, for example by 3D-reprojection using multiple cameras or by a real-time computer model and enriched with further context-related information using augmented reality. Different use cases for providing additional context-related information to the machine operator by augmented reality will also be discussed in this paper. To give the operator an immersive feeling, head-tracking will be used to provide a correct perspective view. To evaluate the visualization by a real-time computer model and the head-tracking, a small demo was set up.

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